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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th%20Network%20Operations%20Squadron | The 26th Network Operations Squadron (26 NOS), United States Air Force, is a network operations unit located at Gunter Annex, in Montgomery, AL.
History
The squadron was established as the 1987th Communications Squadron on June 1, 1966, at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, before moving to Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado on October 31, 1975. It came under the Lowry Technical Training Center of Air Training Command on 1 October 1990. It was redesignated as the 3415th Communications Squadron on April 1, 1991. That unit was inactivated on June 28, 1994.
On August 11, 2009, the 3415th Communication Squadron was redesignated as the 26th Network Operations Squadron. The squadron was activated on Aug. 18, 2009, on the day of the implementation of the Twenty-Fourth Air Force. This unit, as one of the newest squadrons in the U.S. Air Force, carries out cyberspace operations.
From 2009 the squadron has operated the U.S. Air Force portion of the Global Information Grid and provides computer network defense for the Air Force enterprise network. In addition to operating and defending the Air Force Enterprise Network Increment 1 (AFNET INC 1) Gateways, the squadron provides command and control and computer defense for more than 250 locations, with more than 1,100 wide area network circuits supporting warfighting efforts while executing 24/7 sustainment of all Air Force active duty, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router/ Secure Internet Protocol Router services.
Lineage
Designated as 1987 Communications Squadron, and organized, on 1 Jun 1966. Redesignated as: 1987 Information Systems Squadron on 1 Jan 1986; 1987 Communications Squadron on 1 Nov 1986; 3415 Communications Squadron on 1 Apr 1991. Inactivated on 28 Jun 1994. Redesignated as 26 Network Operations Squadron on 11 Aug 2009. Activated on 18 Aug 2009.
Assignments
1974 Communications Group, 1 Jun 1966; Northern Communications Area (later, Continental Communications Division), 31 Oct 1975; Air Training Information Systems (later, Air Training Communications) Division, 1 Jan 1986; Lowry Technical Training Center, 1 Oct 1990; 3415 Support Group, 1 Feb 1992-28 Jun 1994. 26 Network Operations Group, 18 Aug 2009-.
Stations
Nakhon Phanom RTAFB, Thailand, 1 June 1966
Lowry AFB, Colorado, 31 October 1975 - 28 June 1994
Gunter Annex, Alabama, 18 August 2009
Awards and Campaigns
Presidential Unit Citation (Southeast Asia), 1 Nov 1968-1 May 1969. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards with Combat "V" Device: 22 Oct 1968-30 Jun 1970; 1 Jul 1969-30 Jun 1970; 1 Jul 1970-30 Jun 1971; 1 Jul 1971-30 Jun 1972; 1 Jul 1972-30 Jun 1973. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1-30 Jun 1966; 1 Jul 1967-30 Jun 1968; 1 Jul 1968-30 Jun 1969; 1 Jan 1976-31 Dec 1977; 1 Jul 1988-30 Jun 1990. Air Force Organizational Excellence Awards: 1 Oct 1988-30 Sep 1989; 1 Oct 1992-28 Jun 1994. Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm: 1 June 1966 – 28 January 1973.
See also
List of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Gruel | Andrew Gruel (born 1980) is an American chef and television personality, based in Orange County, California. He appeared as a judge on Food Network's Food Truck Face Off and as a host of FYI's Say It to My Face!, and is the founder of Slapfish, a seafood restaurant franchise that he launched in 2012 and sold to Mac Haik Enterprises in 2022. He is the founder, CEO and executive chef of Big Parm, a pizza restaurant in Tustin, California; Two Birds, a chicken restaurant in Irvine, California; Butterleaf, a plant-based restaurant in Irvine, California; and Calico Fish House, a casual seafood restaurant in Huntington Beach, California.
Early life and education
Gruel was born and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey and graduated from the Pingry School in 1998. He said that his affinity towards cooking started at an early age, when he would fake sick to stay home from school and watch cooking shows on public-access television. While attending Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, he worked in lobster restaurants in the area. He received his culinary degree from Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts.
Career
Cooking
Gruel began his career working in fine dining restaurants, hotels and diners in New Jersey, as a cook at the Ritz Carlton in Boston and at Jack's of New London in New London, New Hampshire. He left the East Coast in 2009 to work as director of Seafood for the Future, a nonprofit program at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced many restaurants to shut down, Gruel started a fund in December 2020 to raise money for out-of-work restaurant industry employees, raising over $230,000 in the first three weeks. The fund, called 86 Restaurant Struggle, is a nonprofit charity that helps struggling and unemployed restaurant workers.
Television
Gruel's first television appearance was on the BBC show The Endless Feast in 2007. He served as a judge on the Food Channel's Food Truck Face Off and Chopped Junior, and also appeared on Eat St. on the Cooking Channel, Today on NBC, and On the Rocks on the Food Network. In 2015, Gruel starred as a host on season 1 of the reality television show Say It To My Face! Since 2020, he has been a frequent guest on various national news programs.
Radio
Gruel hosted a culinary radio show called Cooking with Gruel in 2015. He co-hosts the weekly The SoCal Restaurant Show on KLAA, which launched in 2012.
Television appearances
Personal life
Gruel and his wife Lauren Gruel have four children.
References
External links
Official website
1980 births
Living people
American male chefs
American television chefs
Food Network chefs
People from Bridgewater Township, New Jersey
People from Orange County, California
Pingry School alumni
Johnson & Wales University alumni
Bates College alumni
Restaurant founders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexML%20Brasil | LexML Brasil (or LexML-BR or LexML Brazil) is a project of Brazil's Electronic Government initiative. Its objective is to establish open data systems, integrate work processes and share data, in the context of identifying and structuring executive, legislative and judiciary documents. The LexML-BR standards define a set of simple technology-neutral electronic protocols and representations, based on XML and HTTP ecossistem.
While the project was officially launched on June 30, 2009, Brazil has been participating in the LexML community since 2006. In 2009, LexML became an explicit national data standard in the ":pt:e-PING".
In May, 2012, Brazil's "Public Access to Information" law (Lei de Acesso a Informações Públicas) entered into force, which strengthened the standing of LexML as a transparency tool that could assist in carrying out the obligation to publish government data in the areas of legislative and court documents.
Schema
LexML's technical standards allow efficient handling of an enormous quantity of legislative and court information available in Brasil. These include:
XML Schema of the full text of laws (in accordance with LCP-95). Technical Norm "LexML-BR Part 3".
URN Lex schema, for reference to and nomenclature of the norms. Technical norm "LexML-BR Parte 2"
OAI-PMH protocol for the exchange and centralization of metadata. Technical norm "LexML-BR Part 4".
Dedicated resources
The main resources needed for the project are already in place:
Permanent URLs (PURL) for the URN resolvers: http://www.lexml.gov.br/urn
Website search engine for laws, http://www.lexml.gov.br. Site specialized in laws, decrees, agreements and bills, among other documents at the federal, state and municipal level in all of Brazil.
A toolset for the production and conversion of documents into specified formats.
History
An early development at Brazil occurred at 1997, in a scholar initiative, with the modeling of the structure of Brazilians legislative documents, and the demonstration that all legislative documents can be automatically translated to HTML hypertext, with intra and inter links. The seminal algorithms (implemented as Perl scripts and regular expressions) was lost one decade, rediscovered during the development of an important LexML tool, the lexml-linker. Some scholar studies continued, and served as support to redirect the initial LexML-BR focus on XML schemas to metadata and URN schemas.
The LexML-BR Project was started in ~2006, and had the LexML-IT as an antecedent, as well public as consultings.
On June 30, 2009, it was launched officially.
It is now a joint initiative of many administrative bodies, including Brazil's legislature, executive and judiciary branches, part of the IT Management Community, which combines the areas of legislative and court information.
The goals of the LexML Brazil project can be divided into two main areas:
LexML 1.0: consists of the search engine, resolver service, generation of persistent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheRealDeal | TheRealDeal was a darknet website and a part of the cyber-arms industry reported to be selling code and zero-day software exploits.
The creators claimed in an interview with DeepDotWeb that the site was founded in direct response to the number of dark websites which have emerged during the past few years which do not actually have anything of value to sell and are just scams. The site relied on Tor and bitcoin similar to other darknet markets but required multi-signature transactions. There was speculation in the computer security community as to whether the site is a law enforcement sting operation due to apparent listing of exploits at many times below their potential market value.
In July 2015 the website was down for 24 hours at the same time as cyber crime forum Darkode was seized by the FBI and various members arrested in 'Operation Shrouded Horizon'. On 13 August in 2015 the site went offline for unknown reasons. On December 1 it announced its reopening on DeepDotWeb. The Real Deal was shut down in November 2016.
In 2020, cybersecurity author Vinny Troia provided an analysis of the marketplace's MySQL database, which revealed two of the site's three admins to be members of The Dark Overlord hacking group.
See also
WabiSabiLabi
References
External links
Tor onion services
Defunct darknet markets
Cyberwarfare
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octuple-precision%20floating-point%20format | In computing, octuple precision is a binary floating-point-based computer number format that occupies 32 bytes (256 bits) in computer memory. This 256-bit octuple precision is for applications requiring results in higher than quadruple precision. This format is rarely (if ever) used and very few environments support it.
IEEE 754 octuple-precision binary floating-point format: binary256
In its 2008 revision, the IEEE 754 standard specifies a binary256 format among the interchange formats (it is not a basic format), as having:
Sign bit: 1 bit
Exponent width: 19 bits
Significand precision: 237 bits (236 explicitly stored)
The format is written with an implicit lead bit with value 1 unless the exponent is all zeros. Thus only 236 bits of the significand appear in the memory format, but the total precision is 237 bits (approximately 71 decimal digits: ).
The bits are laid out as follows:
Exponent encoding
The octuple-precision binary floating-point exponent is encoded using an offset binary representation, with the zero offset being 262143; also known as exponent bias in the IEEE 754 standard.
Emin = −262142
Emax = 262143
Exponent bias = 3FFFF16 = 262143
Thus, as defined by the offset binary representation, in order to get the true exponent the offset of 262143 has to be subtracted from the stored exponent.
The stored exponents 0000016 and 7FFFF16 are interpreted specially.
The minimum strictly positive (subnormal) value is and has a precision of only one bit.
The minimum positive normal value is 2−262142 ≈ 2.4824 × 10−78913.
The maximum representable value is 2262144 − 2261907 ≈ 1.6113 × 1078913.
Octuple-precision examples
These examples are given in bit representation, in hexadecimal,
of the floating-point value. This includes the sign, (biased) exponent, and significand.
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000016 = +0
8000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000016 = −0
7fff f000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000016 = +infinity
ffff f000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000016 = −infinity
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000116
= 2−262142 × 2−236 = 2−262378
≈ 2.24800708647703657297018614776265182597360918266100276294348974547709294462 × 10−78984
(smallest positive subnormal number)
0000 0fff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff16
= 2−262142 × (1 − 2−236)
≈ 2.4824279514643497882993282229138717236776877060796468692709532979137875392 × 10−78913
(largest subnormal number)
0000 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000016
= 2−262142
≈ 2.48242795146434978829932822291387172367768770607964686927095329791378756168 × 10−78913
(smallest positive normal number)
7fff efff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff16
= 2262143 × (2 − 2−236)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arellano%E2%80%93Bond%20estimator | In econometrics, the Arellano–Bond estimator is a generalized method of moments estimator used to estimate dynamic models of panel data. It was proposed in 1991 by Manuel Arellano and Stephen Bond, based on the earlier work by Alok Bhargava and John Denis Sargan in 1983, for addressing certain endogeneity problems. The GMM-SYS estimator is a system that contains both the levels and the first difference equations. It provides an alternative to the standard first difference GMM estimator.
Qualitative description
Unlike static panel data models, dynamic panel data models include lagged levels of the dependent variable as regressors. Including a lagged dependent variable as a regressor violates strict exogeneity, because the lagged dependent variable is likely to be correlated with the random effects and/or the general errors. The Bhargava-Sargan article developed optimal linear combinations of predetermined variables from different time periods, provided sufficient conditions for identification of model parameters using restrictions across time periods, and developed tests for exogeneity for a subset of the variables. When the exogeneity assumptions are violated and correlation pattern between time varying variables and errors may be complicated, commonly used static panel data techniques such as fixed effects estimators are likely to produce inconsistent estimators because they require certain strict exogeneity assumptions.
Anderson and Hsiao (1981) first proposed a solution by utilising instrumental variables (IV) estimation. However, the Anderson–Hsiao estimator is asymptotically inefficient, as its asymptotic variance is higher than the Arellano–Bond estimator, which uses a similar set of instruments, but uses generalized method of moments estimation rather than instrumental variables estimation.
In the Arellano–Bond method, first difference of the regression equation are taken to eliminate the individual effects. Then, deeper lags of the dependent variable are used as instruments for differenced lags of the dependent variable (which are endogenous).
In traditional panel data techniques, adding deeper lags of the dependent variable reduces the number of observations available. For example, if observations are available at T time periods, then after first differencing, only T-1 lags are usable. Then, if K lags of the dependent variable are used as instruments, only T-K-1 observations are usable in the regression. This creates a trade-off: adding more lags provides more instruments, but reduces the sample size. The Arellano–Bond method circumvents this problem.
Formal description
Consider the static linear unobserved effects model for observations and time periods:
for and
where is the dependent variable observed for individual at time
is the time-variant regressor matrix, is the unobserved time-invariant individual effect and is the error term. Unlike , cannot be observed by the econometrician. Common examples for time-invarian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%20Rosen | Saul Rosen (February 8, 1922 – June 9, 1991) was an American computer science pioneer.
He is known for designing the software of the first transistor-based computer Philco Transac S-2000, and for his work on programming language design which influenced the ALGOL language.
In 1947, he was involved in establishing the Association for Computing Machinery; in particular he was the first editor of its journal Communications of the ACM.
In 1979 he co-founded the journal Annals of the History of Computing, then published by AFIPS.
Selected publications
See also
List of pioneers in computer science
References
External links
Vita at rcac.purdue.edu
Publications at DBLP
Pictures of Rosen via cs.purdue.edu:
5 Apr 1966, handling a magnetic tape
5 Apr 1966, at the typewriter
30 Jul 1968, portrait
American computer scientists
1922 births
1991 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20artificial%20intelligence%20films | This article contains a chronological list of notable films which included artificial intelligence either as a protagonist or as an essential part of the film.
Films
See also
Artificial intelligence in fiction
References
Lists of films by topic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNPS%20Inventory%20of%20Rare%20and%20Endangered%20Plants%20of%20California | The CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California is a botanical online database providing information on rare, threatened, and endangered California native plants. It is sponsored by the California Native Plant Society (CNPS).
Description
All plant taxa that the State of California or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service list as being threatened species, endangered species, or rare species in California, are included in the lists. They are continually updated with additions, changes, and deletions. In 2014 the CNPS Rare Plant Program began including Lichens of Conservation Concern.
The Inventory is published every three to five years and is used by the State and Federal government for conservation planning. It is used for scientific research, conservation and preservation, and enforcement of environmental laws in California.
History
CNPS originally developed the Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California with the guidance of botanist and evolutionary biologist G. Ledyard Stebbins.
The 1st Edition was printed in 1974. The last print version, the 6th Edition, was published in 2001. The 8th Edition, released in 2010 with ongoing updates, is the current database.
The online database publication, which depends on volunteer contributions, is supported by the California Native Plant Society, University of California, Riverside Herbarium, and other institutions, organizations, and individuals.
See also
List of California native plants
References
External links
California Native Plant Society−CNPS: official Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California website — with plant species searchengine.
Flora of California by conservation status
Online botany databases
Books about California
Florae (publication)
Environment of California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outstar | Outstar is an output from the neurodes of the hidden layer of the neural network architecture which works as an input for output layer. Neurode of hidden layer provides input to neurode of the output layer.
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%201967 | The following events occurred in May 1967:
May 1, 1967 (Monday)
With aspirations to become the fourth United States commercial television network (after NBC, CBS and ABC), the United Network began broadcasting on more than 100 independent stations at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time (8:00 p.m. Pacific Time) with its first and only program, The Las Vegas Show, a two-hour long weeknight variety show telecast in color. Comedian Bill Dana was the regular host, and his first guests were comedian Milton Berle, singer Abbe Lane, and the comedy team of Allen & Rossi. Lacking sufficient national sponsors and facing the enormous costs of using overland coaxial cables to relay the program to affiliates, the network would fold after 23 performances of The Las Vegas Show, with the last one ending at 1:00 in the morning Eastern time on June 1, after the May 31 program that featured singer Gilbert Price.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle was sworn in as the new President of Nicaragua, succeeding Lorenzo Guerrero.
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu were married in a brief civil ceremony at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.
GO Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, was established.
Born: Tim McGraw, American country singer; as Samuel Timothy McGraw, later Samuel Smith, in Delhi, Louisiana
Died: Klavdia Andreyevna Kosygin, 58, wife of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, collapsed and died while she, her husband, and other Soviet leaders were reviewing the annual May Day military parade in Moscow. Mrs. Kosygin had been seriously ill and undergoing cancer treatment for nearly six months, although her illness had not been disclosed in the Soviet press.
May 2, 1967 (Tuesday)
Led by Huey P. Newton, a group of 40 members of the Black Panthers, armed with shotguns, rifles and pistols, forced their way into a session of the California House of Representatives at the state capitol building in Sacramento, as a protest against gun control. The California Assembly was debating passage of a bill that would forbid the carrying of a loaded firearm into any public place in the state. No violence took place, other than scuffling between some of the Panthers and the state police who responded to the incident. Sacramento city police stopped five cars that were bringing another 26 armed men join the 40 inside the capitol, and confiscated 15 weapons. As for the men in the capitol building, the police declined to make arrests because there was no violation of the law, and the weapons were returned to the group.
In the Democratic primary election in Gary, Indiana, Mayor A. Martin Katz was defeated for renomination by an African-American challenger, city councilman Richard G. Hatcher, by a wide margin.
The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup for the last time of the 20th century. More than 50 years later, the Leafs have not returned to the Stanley Cup Finals. The game also marked the last for the National Hockey League as a six-team league, as six expansion teams would begin pl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostroma%20rail%20bridge | Kostroma rail bridge is a railway bridge across the Volga River in the city of Kostroma, located at the section of Karimovo-Kostroma-Novaya of the Severnaya Railway network. The bridge has 7 spans. 1-4 spans are eqquiped with deck-trusses, while 5-7 spans - with through trusses.
History
The need for bridge construction in Kostroma occurred in the late 19th century due to the completion of the railway line Nerekhta - Kostroma in 1887. As far back as 1907 the city inhabitants already addressed a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. Years later, in December 1927, the Kostroma people requested again to the country's main leaders for building a railway bridge.
In 1929, the first caisson was installed. And already in 1932, the bridge construction was completed. The estimated cost was more than 8 million rubles. 2000 people were involved in the construction process. The span structures of the bridge were manufactured at Dniepropetrovsk Steelwork Plant of the Stalmost Trust (now OJSC "Dnepropetrovsk Steelwork Plant" named after I.V.Babuskin).
Boat traffic
The bridge has two navigable spans: fifth from the right bank (its width is ) for vessels and rafts that go down the river, and sixth ( wide) for vessels that go up the river. The height of navigable spans are 17.5 metres from the project level and from the calculated level.
See also
Nikolai Belelubsky
Lavr Proskouriakov
Northern Railway (Russia)
Sources
The State Archive of Modern History of Kostroma region (PG 'GANIKO "), p. 3615, op. 3, d.797, l. 1.
"Severnaya Pravda". March 1, 1932
External links
Вехи. Имена. События Костромы и костромичей
The history of JSC "Dniepropetrovsk Steelwork Plant them. IV Babushkin."
Railway bridges in Russia
Kostroma
Bridges across the Volga River |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Distributed%20Computing%20System | The Cambridge Distributed Computing System is an early discontinued distributed operating system, developed in the 1980s at Cambridge University. It grew out of the Cambridge Ring local area network, which it used to interconnect computers.
The Cambridge system connected terminals to "processor banks". At login, a user would request from the bank a machine with a given architecture and amount of memory. The system then assigned to the user a machine that served, for the duration of the login session, as their "personal" computer. The machines in the processor bank ran the TRIPOS operating system. Additional special-purpose servers provided file and other services. At its height, the Cambridge system consisted of some 90 machines.
References
Distributed operating systems
Discontinued operating systems
History of computing in the United Kingdom
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
68k architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20Mac%20OS | Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The Macintosh operating system is credited with having popularized the graphical user interface concept. It was included with every Macintosh that was sold during the era in which it was developed, and many updates to the system software were done in conjunction with the introduction of new Macintosh systems.
Apple released the original Macintosh on January 24, 1984. The first version of the system software, which had no official name, was partially based on the Lisa OS, which Apple previously released for the Lisa computer in 1983. As part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable price, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Alto computer, which former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and other Lisa team members had previewed. This operating system consisted of the Macintosh Toolbox ROM and the "System Folder", a set of files that were loaded from disk. The name Macintosh System Software came into use in 1987 with System 5. Apple rebranded the system as Mac OS in 1996, starting officially with version 7.6, due in part to its Macintosh clone program. That program ended after the release of Mac OS 8 in 1997. The last major release of the system was Mac OS 9 in 1999.
Initial versions of the System Software ran one application at a time. With the Macintosh 512K, a system extension called the Switcher was developed to use this additional memory to allow multiple programs to remain loaded. The software of each loaded program used the memory exclusively; only when activated by the Switcher did the program appear, even the Finder's desktop. With the Switcher, the now familiar Clipboard feature allowed copy and paste between the loaded programs across switches including the desktop.
With the introduction of System 5, a cooperative multitasking extension called MultiFinder was added, which allowed content in windows of each program to remain in a layered view over the desktop, and was later integrated into System 7 as part of the operating system along with support for virtual memory. By the mid-1990s, however, contemporary operating systems such as Windows NT, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, BSD, and Linux had all brought pre-emptive multitasking, protected memory, access controls, and multi-user capabilities to desktop computers. The Macintosh's limited memory management and susceptibility to conflicts among extensions that provide additional functionality, such as networking or support for a particular device, led to significant criticism of the operating system, and was a factor in Apple's declining market share at the time.
After two aborted attempts at creating a successor to the Macintosh System Software called Taligent and Copland, and a four-year development effort spearheaded by Steve Jobs's return to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel%20de%20la%20plage | Hôtel de la plage is a French-language television series. It has been distributed from 2014 to 2015 on France 2 (France). The network decided to end the show after season 2.
Plot
At Ronce-les-Bains, a resort in the southwest of France, five families meet every year at the Hôtel de la plage (beach hotel) for a long-awaited summer break, away from everyday life. But nothing goes as planned.
Cast
Bruno Solo : Paul Lopez
Jonathan Zaccaï : Martin Guignard
Yvon Back : Victor
Annick Blancheteau : Yvonne
Sophie-Charlotte Husson : Isabelle
Fatima Adoum : Samia Lopez
Arnaud Henriet : Yann
Olivia Côte : Marine
Karina Testa : Sophie
Pascal Elso: Jeff
Philippe Hérisson : Jeff
Xavier Robic : Benjamin
Nassim Si Ahmed : Omar
Farida Ouchani : Aïcha
Méliane Marcaggi : Morgane
Margaux Rossi : Fanny
Gaïa Berthomme : Elsa
Adam Neil : Kevin
Manon Giraud-Balasuriya : Manon
Gilles Mercier : Tom
Valérie Dashwood : Stéphanie
Alexandre Tacchino : Julien
Olivia Gallay : Nina
Joël Pyrene : Roger
Elie Tertois : Ludo
Juliet Lemonnier : Carla
Mireille Perrier : Rose
Guest
Luce : Herself (Episode 2, Season 2)
Françoise Lépine : Océane (Episode 6, Season 2)
References
External links
2014 French television series debuts
France 2
France Télévisions original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir%20Hemphill | Tahir Hemphill (born May 14, 1972) is an American multimedia artist, ethnolinguist, and design researcher. He developed the Hip Hop Word Count database.
Early life
Hemphill grew up in New York City, in the Lower East Side neighborhood. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School with a Regents diploma concentration in Electrical Engineering. He is African-American.
Hemphill graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Spanish. He has a certificate in Strategic Planning from Miami Ad School. He has a master's degree in Communications Design which he received from Pratt Institute.
Career
Hip-Hop Word Count database
Hemphill created an ethnographic database of hip-hop lyrics covering the period from 1979 to the present. In the database, assets are geotagged and dated according to album release dates. Hemphill calls this data a geography of language in the universe of hip-hop. Hemphill faceted the information with analysis of word count, number of syllables per word, number of letters per word, polysyllabic words, as well as an education and audience reading level rating. Hemphill used Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook ("SMOG") and Flesch–Kincaid readability tests (created by plain English advocate Rudolf Flesch) to evaluate reading levels. Within his analysis of Hip-Hop through a scientific lens, he aims to trace origins of certain slang words, how they move to different communities, and their malleable, fluid meanings in different contexts.
Fellowships, grants, etc.
2010-2011: Artist-in-Residence, Eyebeam
2012: Grantee, Creative Capital
2012-2013: Fellow, WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard University
2013: Fellow, The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University
2015: AIM Program participant, Bronx Museum of the Arts
Exhibitions
1999: "Black New York Photographers of the Twentieth Century." Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
2002: "Queens International Biennial." Queens Museum of Art
2002: SIGGRAPH
2011: "Talk to Me." Museum of Modern Art. July 24, 2011 - November 7, 2011
2012: "The Box That Rocks: 30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture." Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. March 10 - May 28, 2012
Works and publications
Hemphill, Tahir. Visual Alchemy: Subversive Graphic Design in the Urban Environment. Master's Thesis. New York, NY: Pratt Institute: December 1999.
References
External links
Tahir Hemphill
Staple Crops
American multimedia artists
21st-century African-American artists
1972 births
Living people
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia%20%28disambiguation%29 | Academia is the scientific and cultural research and higher education community, taken as a whole.
It may also refer to:
Academia.edu, a social network
La Academia, a Mexican television programme
La Academia (Paraguay), a Paraguayan spin-off
La Academia USA, an American spin-off
Academia (Soviet publishing house), a Soviet publishing house
, operated by Czech Academy of Sciences
Platonic Academy, or Akademia, an ancient school founded by Plato
See also
Acidemia
Academic (disambiguation)
Academy (disambiguation)
Akademija (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric%20path%20tracing | Volumetric path tracing is a method for rendering images in computer graphics which was first introduced by Lafortune and Willems. This method enhances the rendering of the lighting in a scene by extending the path tracing method with the effect of light scattering. It is used for photorealistic effects of participating media like fire, explosions, smoke, clouds, fog or soft shadows.
Like in the path tracing method, a ray is followed backwards, beginning from the eye, until reaching the light source. In volumetric path tracing, scattering events can occur along with ray tracing. When a light ray hits a surface, a certain amount gets scattered into the media.
Description
The algorithm is based on the volumetric rendering equation, which extends the rendering equation with a scattering term.
It is composed of an absorption, out-scattering, emission and an in-scattering part. The absorption and out-scattering together form the extinction term. The in-scattering is the most expensive part to calculate because it needs an integration over all paths in the scene that consist of radiance. Therefore, thousands of paths need to be traced to achieve a result with good quality and without much noise. For a better handling, the in-scattering term can be split into two components, the single scattering and the multiple scattering.
Algorithm
In volumetric path tracing, a distance between the ray and the surface gets sampled and compared with the distance of the nearest intersection of the ray with the surface. If the sampled distance is smaller, a scatter event occurs. In that case the path is evaluated and traced from the scatter point in the media, not from the surface point on which it falls. The rest of the procedure continues in the same manner, until reaching the light source.
Sampling
A possible way of sampling distances is the ray marching method, which works similarly to ray tracing but operates on a distance field of the scene and acts in discrete steps. The scattering inside the media can be determined by a phase function using importance sampling. Therefore, the Henyey–Greenstein phase function — a non-isotropic phase function for simulating the scattering of materials like oceans, clouds or skin — can be applied.
References
Further reading
Volumetric Path Tracing (March 2012). Cornell University.
Volume light transport (March 2012). Cornell University.
Efficient Volume Rendering in CUDA Path Tracer (2013). University of Southern California.
Global illumination algorithms
Computer graphics algorithms
Monte Carlo methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20learning%20with%20errors%20key%20exchange | In cryptography, a public key exchange algorithm is a cryptographic algorithm which allows two parties to create and share a secret key, which they can use to encrypt messages between themselves. The ring learning with errors key exchange (RLWE-KEX) is one of a new class of public key exchange algorithms that are designed to be secure against an adversary that possesses a quantum computer. This is important because some public key algorithms in use today will be easily broken by a quantum computer if such computers are implemented. RLWE-KEX is one of a set of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms which are based on the difficulty of solving certain mathematical problems involving lattices. Unlike older lattice based cryptographic algorithms, the RLWE-KEX is provably reducible to a known hard problem in lattices.
Background
Since the 1980s the security of cryptographic key exchanges and digital signatures over the Internet has been primarily based on a small number of public key algorithms. The security of these algorithms is based on a similarly small number of computationally hard problems in classical computing. These problems are the difficulty of factoring the product of two carefully chosen prime numbers, the difficulty to compute discrete logarithms in a carefully chosen finite field, and the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms in a carefully chosen elliptic curve group. These problems are very difficult to solve on a classical computer (the type of computer the world has known since the 1940s through today) but are rather easily solved by a relatively small quantum computer using only 5 to 10 thousand of bits of memory. There is optimism in the computer industry that larger scale quantum computers will be available around 2030. If a quantum computer of sufficient size were built, all of the public key algorithms based on these three classically hard problems would be insecure. This public key cryptography is used today to secure Internet websites, protect computer login information, and prevent our computers from accepting malicious software.
Cryptography that is not susceptible to attack by a quantum computer is referred to as quantum safe, or post-quantum cryptography. One class of quantum resistant cryptographic algorithms is based on a concept called "learning with errors" introduced by Oded Regev in 2005. A specialized form of Learning with errors operates within the ring of polynomials over a finite field. This specialized form is called ring learning with errors or RLWE.
There are a variety of cryptographic algorithms which work using the RLWE paradigm. There are public-key encryption algorithms, homomorphic encryption algorithms, and RLWE digital signature algorithms in addition to the public key, key exchange algorithm presented in this article
A key exchange algorithm is a type of public key algorithm which establishes a shared secret key between two communicants on a communications link. The classic exa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Avant | The Samsung Galaxy Avant (also known as the Samsung Galaxy Core LTE in Canada) is a mid-range smartphone released by Samsung in July 2014. It was only available on the T-Mobile network in the United States, although it could be purchased both on and off contract. This phone retailed for $230, making it one of the cheaper offerings by T-Mobile. While the phone was praised for its low price and decent performance, it was also criticized for its poor screen and camera. The display was often cited as having washed out colors and a lack of sharpness, likely as a result of the TFT panel used. The Galaxy Avant received a few official software updates, but was never upgraded past Android KitKat.
Specifications
The Samsung Galaxy Avant comes with a 4.5-inch TFT display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels and a 16:9 ratio. The phone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset paired with the Adreno 305 GPU. It ships with 16GB of storage and 1.5GB of RAM. It has a removable 2100 mAh Li-ion battery. The phone runs on the Android KitKat operating system.
Rooting & Custom ROMs
Soon after the release of this phone, a method to gain root access on the Galaxy Avant was discovered. In order to root the phone, a root package must be flashed through Odin on a PC, which can then be used to flash a custom recovery, allowing for further ROMs to be flashed. The Galaxy Avant has a ROM for Android 5.1.1, but the phone's camera and gyroscope are non functional. It did not receive any ROM for Android Marshmallow, Nougat or Oreo, however, it did receive a modified ROM that provided some of the design and functionality of Android Marshmallow. In August 2023, a port of Android Pie via LineageOS 16 was released by an XDA user named "greggit1986", and an Android 10 and Android 11 ROM (based on LineageOS 17.1 and LineageOS 18.1) would be released by greggit1986 a month later.
References
Samsung Galaxy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris%20Networks | Polaris Networks is a privately held company founded in 2003 and located in San Jose, California. It focuses on developing networking protocol software, and its products primarily include wireless protocol test tools and emulators for 3GPP LTE networks.
In 2012, CERN selected the xTCA Test Tools developed by Polaris Networks for the internal testing of their xTCA systems, including those of the Large Hadron Collider.
In April 2013, Polaris Networks announced the cloud-based deployment of their NetEPC, a carrier-grade EPC which combines the functionality of the MME, SGW, PGW, HSS and PCRF into a single high-availability platform. And in June 2013, the Public Safety Communications Research Program used the Polaris Networks NetEPC to demonstrate deployable LTE at the Public Safety Broadband Stakeholder Conference in Westminster, Colorado. In June 2018, Polaris Networks and Nemergent Solutions completed interoperability tests between Polaris Networks’ NetEPC and Nemergent's Mission Critical Services (MCS) application server.
References
External links
Polaris Networks Website
Wireless networking hardware
Mobile web
Mobile technology
Companies established in 2003
2003 establishments in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axact | Axact () is a Pakistan software company that runs numerous websites selling fraudulent academic degrees. The company used to own the media company BOL Network.
History
Axact was founded by Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, who serves as its chairman. It is based in Karachi, and has over 2,000 employees. According to Shaikh, the company was founded in 1997 with fewer than 10 employees working in a single room. In 2013 he said Axact was the world's leading IT company and that it had eight broad-business units and products, more than 5,200 employees, and associated globally and as many as 8.3 million customers worldwide. The company website said in 2015 that the company had 10 diverse business units that offer more than 23 products, more than two billion users, and a global presence across 6 continents, 120 countries and 1,300 cities with more than 25,000 employees and associates.
According to Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan records, the company was registered in June 2006 and had a paid up capital of Rs. 6 million () by 2010. Government records show that it paid an income tax of approximately Rs. 18,90,000 () for the year 2014, and that Shaikh paid a personal income tax of Rs. 26 () for the same year.
In September 2018, Shoaib Shaikh, the owner and CEO was arrested and sentenced to 20 years for the scam along with 22 of his staff members.
Fake diplomas scandal
The New York Times investigation
On 17 May 2015, The New York Times published an investigative story reporting that Axact ran at least 370 degree and accreditation mill websites. The report alleged that, although the company did sell software, its main business was to sell fraudulent degrees and certifications on a global scale. The Times further reported that the company had around 2,000 employees, some of whom pretended to be American educational officials and worked in shifts to keep the company open 24 hours per day.
Company response
Axact denied all allegations. The company accused The New York Times of "baseless, substandard reporting", and of sabotaging its expansion into TV and related media with BOL Network, which was scheduled to begin operations soon. It also threatened several news organizations and bloggers reporting on the issue with lawsuits.
Initially, Shoaib denied any association with the fake educational websites besides selling them software. He later claimed that Axact did provide office support and call center services to the websites, but it did not itself "issue any degree or diploma, whether fake or real."
Investigations
Following the publication of the New York Times article, Pakistan's interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan directed the country's Federal Investigation Agency to begin inquiry into whether the company was involved in any illegal business. Following the interior minister's order, a cyber crime team of the FIA raided Axact's offices in Karachi and Islamabad and seized computers, recorded statements of employees, and took into custody 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Institute%20of%20Computer%20Studies | The Asian Institute of Computer Studies (AICS) is a private and non-sectarian educational institution in the Philippines founded in 1996. Its academic offerings mainly focus on computer science, information and communications technology and business studies.
History
Manuel T. Asis, an architect by profession, founded the school in 1996 with an enrollment of 50 students. The first AICS campus opened in Fairview, Quezon City. It grew to 600 students by its second year of operations. In succeeding years, it expanded and established new campuses within the Metro Manila area.
The school has 17 campuses all over Luzon and a campus in Cebu City. The AICS campus at Commonwealth Avenue inj Quezon City is the flagship campus and administrative hub for school operations. AICS is currently headed by Anthony S. Asis.
Academics
Academic degrees
Its offered courses include 4-year Bachelor of Science degrees in computer science, computer engineering and entrepreneurship. It also offers short courses on networking, computer programming, multimedia and office applications. In the 2016-7 school year, it accepted its first batch of students in the senior high school department.
The school's curricular offerings are approved and accredited by the Philippine Department of Education, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and the Commission on Higher Education.
Academic calendar
AICS follows a traditional two-semester academic calendar. The first semester starts around early or mid-June and ends in late October, with a break of two weeks. The second semester starts in the second week of November, with a two-week Christmas break in late December, and resumes by the first week of January and ends in late March. In 2020, AICS moved the start of its classes from June to August.
Campuses
AICS has 17 campuses within Luzon and one in Cebu:
Bacoor
Batangas City
Bicutan
Calamba
Caloocan
Commonwealth (flagship campus and administrative seat)
Dau
GMA
Lipa
Marilao
Montalban
Olongapo
San Fernando
Santa Rosa
Tanay
Tarlac
Taytay
Cebu
See also
Higher education in the Philippines
Education in the Philippines
AMA Computer University
Asia Pacific College
iAcademy
Informatics Philippines
STI College
References
External links
Universities and colleges in Metro Manila
Educational institutions established in 1996
Information technology institutes
Information technology schools
1996 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112%20Ukraine | 112 Ukraine () was a private Ukrainian TV channel which provided 24-hour news coverage. 112 Ukraine was available on satellites AMOS 2/3, via the DVB-T2 network, and was also available in packages of all major Ukrainian cable operators until it was banned from broadcasting in Ukraine in February 2021. The channel was focused on live broadcasting.
It was reportedly affiliated with the pro-Russian politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk. Since December 2018, the channel has been owned by Taras Kozak, a parliament member of Opposition Platform — For Life who is reportedly an associate of Medvedchuk. The broadcasting of the channel was prohibited on 2 February 2021 by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine as part of the imposed sanctions on Kozak. The channel was immediately shut down but continued to livestream its content on the Internet. On 5 March 2021, YouTube blocked the live broadcasts of the channel.
History of the channel
112 Ukraine was launched within 4 months of its conception, starting from concept development, equipment supply and office space design up to programming and business optimization solutions. On 26 November 2013, the presentation of 112 Ukraine took place, and on 28 November 2013, the new TV channel appeared on Ukrainian screens.
In August 2014, the channel opened a correspondence bureau in Brussels. It later organized live linkups with Crimea, Moscow, Vilnius and Lviv.
During the first informal July 2014 meeting with 112 Ukraine representatives, Head and Deputies of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council claimed that “112 Ukraine” owner Andrey Podschypkov is a nominal owner, despite documentary proofs. National Council representatives stated that the real owner is one of the former Ministers of the Viktor Yanukovych cabinet, and refused to renew the programming concept of five regional stations owned by 112 Ukraine. In 2015, 112 Ukraine received a notice from the National Council for remarks by Russian journalist Maksim Shevchenko, who was interviewed in the studio via Skype during a "Shuster LIVE" talk-show. The president of the European Federation of Journalists stated in February 2015 that the threat of closure targeting 112 Ukraine seemed clearly disproportionate.
In December 2018, member of parliament for Opposition Bloc Taras Kozak, who was later reelected for Opposition Platform — For Life in 2019, acquired the channel and all six TV channels in the "112 Ukraine" group.
On 13 July 2019, an unidentified assailant fired a grenade at the 112 Ukraine offices in Kyiv, causing damage to the building.
In late May 2021, 112 Ukraine received a fine of ₴100,000 for broadcasting Petro Symonenko's claim that the war in Donbas was a "civil war" initiated by "Ukrainian nationalists and neo-fascists supported by the United States". Symonenko is the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU), a party that was banned in 2015.
Closure
On 2 February 2021, the National Security and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava%20Gerovitch | Vyacheslav (Slava) Alexandrovich Gerovitch (; born 1963) is an American historian of science of Russian origin, considered a leading scholar on Soviet space program history in the US and Cybernetics in the Soviet Union.
In his work, Gerovitch emphasizes the influence of underlying cultural processes on science progress. For example, he introduced the term "cyberspeak", that is a newspeak of cybernetics, i.e., "the language we use to talk about that computer" that was a must in Soviet Union to survive in science. In his research, Gerovitch demonstrates how the progress of technology (e.g., aeronautics in Soviet Union) fits into the surrounding reality, culture and politics.
Slava Gerovitch is an author of more than 50 peer reviewed journal publications, translations and book chapters on history of technology and science, including mathematics, cybernetics and aeronautics that were highly acknowledged by the experts in the field.
In 2010, together with Pavel Etingof he co-founded Program for Research In Mathematics, Engineering and Science (PRIMES), the MIT Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering and Science for High School Students, and has since served as its Program Director. Since 2012 Gerovitch has served as program director for the Math Department's RSI and SPUR summer programs.
In addition to writing on the history of scientific theories, Slava Gerovitch writes poetry in English and Russian. His lyric poetry contains allusions to the works of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Pushkin, Trakl, Pasternak, Mandelshtam, Nabokov, Brodsky, and Okudzhava.
Education and awards
Gerovitch was born in Moscow, Russia. He received his M.S. in applied mathematics from the Oil and Gas Institute in Moscow, Ph.D. in philosophy of science from the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology in Moscow in 1992 with thesis "The Dynamics of Research Programs in the Artificial Intelligence Field.", and Ph.D. in history and social study of science from MIT's Science, Technology and Society Program in 1999 under Loren Graham with thesis "Speaking Cybernetically: The Soviet Remaking of an American Science". In 2001–2006 Slava Gerovitch was a Dibner/Sloan Postdoctoral Researcher and then a research associate at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT. Gerovitch has been lecturing in MIT since 1999. His most recent class is Cultural History of Mathematics. His research interests include history of mathematics, cybernetics, and computing, space history and policy, history of Russian and Soviet science and technology, history and memory, and rhetoric and science.
His book, From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetic, received the honorable mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for an outstanding monograph in Russian studies. According to the MIT press release, 2002 David Holloway, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University called it "An exceptionally lively and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20in%20Fighting%20Network%20Rings | The year 2008 is the 14th year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Fighting Network Rings held 4 events beginning with, Rings: The Outsider.
Events list
Rings: The Outsider
Rings: The Outsider was an event held on March 30, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings: The Outsider 2
Rings: The Outsider 2 was an event held on July 19, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings: The Outsider 3
Rings: The Outsider 3 was an event held on October 19, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Rings: The Outsider 4
Rings: The Outsider 4 was an event held on December 20, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
References
Fighting Network Rings events
2008 in mixed martial arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDataPlane | The OpenDataPlane (ODP) is an open-source project which defines application programming interfaces (APIs) for portable high performance networking data plane applications. ODP API design enables various implementation strategies without exposing the application to implementation details. This allows the same application (source code or binary) to run efficiently on various hardware platforms with different levels of HW acceleration. For example, the same application source code may be re-compiled to run on a standard server system or a specialized networking System on a Chip (SoC) device.
Networking data plane refers software and hardware that forwards packets/frames from one interface to another, and usually performs various operations (check errors, add/remove/modify protocol headers, etc) on packet data. Commonly, data plane software utilizes hardware acceleration (e.g. protocol checksum calculation) to reach high packet and bit rates. Networking control plane and management plane refer to softwares that control and monitor data plane software and hardware operation.
History
On October 29, 2013 Linaro announced that it was collaborating with members of the Linaro Networking interest Group to develop and host an open standard application programming interface for data plane applications. Initially defined by members of the Linaro Networking Group, this project is open to contributions from all individuals and companies who share an interest in promoting a standard set of APIs to be used across the full range of network processor architectures available.
Technology Overview
ODP consists of an API specification and a set of reference implementations that realize these APIs on different platforms. Implementations range from pure software to those that deeply exploit the various hardware acceleration and offload features found on modern networking System-on-Chip (SoC) processors.
ODP's goal is to allow implementers of the API great flexibility to exploit and optimize the implementation. This is intended to enable easy platform portability such that an application written to the API can pick up performance gains without needing significant platform knowledge when ported.
ODP is currently being used to develop reference platform implementations of Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) and is being promoted by companies as part of their data plane support initiatives.
Products were announced by companies such as Kalray with many acronyms. The OpenDataPlane run to completion execution models and framework are also being used by FastPath applications to leverage OpenFastPath functionality. DPDK is supported in the OpenFastPath release through the ODP-DPDK layer. The intent of OpenFastPath is to enable accelerated routing/forwarding for IPv4 and IPv6, tunneling and termination for a variety of protocols.
Implementations
There is a Linux based reference software implementation of the ODP API, intended to be a functional model to establish the API behav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array%20Networks | Array Networks is an American networking hardware company. It sells network traffic encryption tools.
Array Networks was founded in 2000 by Lawrence Lu and is based in Milpitas, California. Originally called ClickArray Networks, it was renamed Array Networks in 2001 by then-incoming CEO Don Massaro who said the longer name "sounded too dot-commy". It received funding from the venture capital firm U.S. Venture Partners and the private equity firm H&Q Asia Pacific.
On May 13, 2009, Array Networks became the first non-Taiwan company to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The company sold 54 million shares that had a total value of about $79 million. In 2009, 43% of the company's market share was in China, and its main product type sold there consisted of SSL VPN devices. It also had 200 employees in China, which CEO Michael Zhao said made China a "natural choice" for an IPO, In comparison, the company had 70 employees in Silicon Valley. but because China did not allow non-Chinese companies on their exchange, he narrowed the choices down to the NASDAQ and the Taiwan Stock Exchange. He chose the Taiwan Stock Exchange for two reasons: Array Networks had a strong business presence in Asia, and Taiwan Stock Exchange's listing fees were at least one third less than the NASDAQ's.
In 2011, CRN Magazine noted that most of Array Networks' sales is from Asia and that the company is "particularly strong" in China, Japan, and India.
In 2018, Array Networks was named to CIO Review's Top 10 Networking Companies of 2018.
In 2023 Array Networks Partnered with Aircom Group Africa having operations in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.
Products
APV series application delivery controllers
In 2008, Array Networks first released its AppVelocity devices that consisted of application delivery controllers for SSL acceleration, load balancing and traffic managementat layers 2-7 for enterprise data centers and Web sites. Later devices were introduced in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
AG series VPN gateways
Array sells VPN gateways.
Remote Desktop Access
Array sells DesktopDirect which enables remote desktop access in a web browser.
Secure Mobile Access
Array sells MotionPro, a product for remote desktop access via personal mobile devices.
aCelera WAN optimization controller
In March 2013, Array acquired the assets of WOC pioneer Certeon, including development and support operations, and software-based WAN optimization products including the aCelera Virtual Appliance, aCelera for Windows Server and aCelera Mobile.
The aCelera appliance can be used to accelerate application traffic for Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Dell, file transfers, backup and replication and others.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Milpitas, California
Networking companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
Technology companies established in 2001
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Idol%20Academy | Indian Idol Academy is a music learning program that was launched during the Grand Finale of Indian Idol Junior Season 1 on September 2013. It is a joint venture of KarmYog Education Network and FreemantleMedia. Indian Idol Academy has programs which offer a variety of musical courses for both beginners and experts in the field of music which are delivered through the OmniDEL Campus.
Indian Idol Academy has been launched in 25 cities.
History
FreemantleMedia, the owners of the Idol brand behind the Indian Idol show, developed the platform for talent development together with KarmYog Education Network, a Kolkata based e-learning company.
Courses
Indian Idol Academy offers courses at different levels.
Introductory Workshop: JAAAGO!
JAAAGO! is a musical workshop for children and their parents. It is followed by a digital audition.
Introductory Course: Music Discovery Program
Music Discovery Program is a music education course for beginners, which aims at helping learners to get to know their core area of interest in music.
It is a 1-year program which is divided into 4 levels of certification with main lessons and taleem lessons (practice sessions). Each main lesson has 4 distinct sections: Gyaan, Swarleela, Palta Time and Song Time. Every main lesson is followed by taleem lessons.
Choir Camp for the City Idols
Choir Camp – For the City Idols, is a musical camp conducted by certified music mentors of the Academy.
Music Mentor Certification Program
Music Mentor Certification program is a course designed especially for the music trainers.
Talent Development Program
Talent Development program is an advanced course designed especially for talented learners.
Learning from the Legends
Learning from the legends is a course designed by the Academy to provide direct tutoring for the learners by previous Indian Idol participants.
Pre-Audition Intensive Course
Pre-Audition Intensive Course is designed for grooming and training Indian Idol show aspirants by the certified mentors of the Indian Idol Academy.
Campus
OmniDEL Campus
The OmniDEL campus is a combination of real and virtual spaces for learning.
Web Campus
Web Campus is an internet-based learning environment which provides individual learners with an archive of their lessons. The web campus is also used by the music mentors of Indian Idol Academy to schedule sessions, evaluate performance and assign tasks.
References
External links
http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/indian-idol-academy-to-be-set-up-in-50-cities/article6369550.ece
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Indian-Idol-Academy-Officially-Launched-on-the-finale/articleshow/22457260.cms
Indian Idol
Indian music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Turner | Ray or Raymond Turner may refer to:
Ray Turner (computer scientist) (born 1947), English computer scientist
Ray Turner (artist) (born 1958), American artist
Ray Turner (basketball) (born 1990), American basketball player
Ray Turner (pianist) (1903–1976), American pianist
Raymond Douglas Turner (1895?–1981), American actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1628%20Camarines%20earthquake | The 1628 Camarines earthquake struck Camarines, in the Philippines in 1628. Fourteen different shocks were recorded. The date is unknown. The United States' National Geophysical Data Center describes the damage as "severe" and the total number of homes damaged as "many".
See also
List of earthquakes in the Philippines
List of historical earthquakes
References
1620s earthquakes
1628 natural disasters
Earthquakes in the Philippines
History of Camarines Norte
History of Camarines Sur
1628 in Southeast Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Law%20on%20Protection%20of%20Personal%20Data%20Held%20by%20Individuals | The Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Individuals; LFPDPPP), is a law of Mexico, approved by the Mexican Congress on April 27, 2010. The law aims to regulate the right to informational self-determination. The law was published on July 5, 2010, in the Official Gazette and entered into force on July 6, 2010. Its provisions apply to all natural or legal persons who carry out the processing of personal data in the applicable exercise of their activities. Companies such as banks, insurance companies, hospitals, schools, telecommunications companies, religious organizations, and professionals such as lawyers, doctors, and others, are required to comply with the provisions of this law.
Personal data, according to Article 3 Section V of the Act, is any information that could identify a person.
Regulatory background in Mexico
Before issuing the LFPDPPP in Mexico this right was expressly recognized only by the Federal Law of Transparency and Access to Public Government Information (applying to the public sector) and in the Law on Protection of Personal Data in the State of Colima (public and private).
Due to the regulatory landscape needed to meet international commitments, it was considered necessary to issue a law on the matter, so there would be a backup in the information.
Constitutional reforms of personal data
Chapter III, of the rights of the holders of personal data
Law takes the contents of the second paragraph of Article 16 of the Constitution and grant holders called "ARCO rights" whose acronym corresponds to:
Access : holders can know if their data is being processed.
Correction : the right to request that their data be modified.
Cancellation : holders may request that their data be canceled from the database for good cause.
Opposition : the right of individuals to prevent use of their information.
Chapter IV Exercise of the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition
Those responsible are obliged to process the requests for access, rectification, cancellation and opposition that made the headlines, for which purpose shall appoint a person or creating a department of personal data, which is responsible for responding to requests within the time prescribed by law. In this chapter the ways in which it can be fulfilled with these rights are also noted, and the reasons why some of them may be denied.
Chapter V, the transfer of data
When the responsible party intends to transfer the data holder shall inform this fact in its privacy notice, requiring the consent of the holder, unless you apply any of the exceptions contemplated by this chapter.
The amendment of Article 6 of the Constitution
The first record is in the reform in 2007 to Article 6 of the Constitution, in which a second paragraph is adicionaba this paragraph, laying the groundwork regarding the right to information (transparency), including the protection of personal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20Satellite%20System | The Mexican Satellite System, also known as MEXSAT, is a network of three satellites bought by the Mexican government's Ministry of Communications and Transportation. The three satellites are named Mexsat-1, Mexsat-2, and Mexsat-3. Subsequently, they have also been named Centenario, Morelos III and Bicentenario respectively.
Mexsat-1 and Mexsat-2 are twin satellites for mobile communication devices and will operate in the electromagnetic frequencies of the L and Ku bands. Mexsat-3 will operate in the range of the extended C and Ku bands. Together these three satellites will form the whole system, operated by the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. The system is expected to meet the telecommunications needs of the whole country.
Two control centres have been built in Hermosillo from which the new satellites will be operated. They were inaugurated by the then-president Felipe Calderón on 29 November 2012.
History
On 20 August 2009, the National Security Program of Mexico announced the MEXSAT project as a means by which to preserve security in Mexico. It is developed by the Ministry of Communications and Transportation and on 17 December 2010 in New York City, United States of America, the Federal Government signed a contract for the acquisition of the MEXSAT system by Boeing Satellite Systems International, Inc.
On 28 June 2011 a contract is signed with Arianespace SA, who will provide the launch services for Mexsat-3.
On 6 February 2012 a contract is signed with International Launch Services (ILS) to provide the launch services for Mexsat-1.
In April 2012 the government renames the satellites from Mexsat-1, 2 and 3 to Centenario, Morelos III and Bicentenario.
Mexsat-1
The first of the three satellites which formed the MEXSAT system was Centenario (originally Mexsat-1), named to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. It was a Boeing 702HP communications satellite completed in November 2013. It was equipped with an L band reflector and a Ku band antenna. It had an estimated lifespan of 15 years.
The satellite was launched on an ILS Proton-M rocket on 16 May 2015. However, 490 seconds after lift-off a technical failure in the third stage of the craft caused the destruction of the satellite, which burned up in the atmosphere and fell into Siberia.
Mexsat-2
The second satellite, Morelos III (originally Mexsat-2) was due to be launched in the last quarter of 2014 but was held back. It instead was launched on October 2, 2015, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V. It is identical in design and function to Mexsat-1, in that it is a Boeing 702HP fitted with the same equipment. It was the second satellite in the network to achieve orbit. It is named after a previous Mexican Satellite Network, Morelos Satellite System.
Mexsat-3
The third satellite, Bicentenario (originally Mexsat-3), is so named to commemorate the bicentennial of Mexican Independence. Instead of being a Boeing 702Hp like its counterp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexsat-3 | Mexsat-3, also known as Mexsat Bicentenario or simply Bicentenario, is the first of three Mexican satellites forming the MEXSAT telecommunications network, and is named to commemorate the bicentennial of the Independence of Mexico. It was launched on 19 December 2012 to serve the other two satellites in the network, Mexsat-1 and Mexsat-2, as a fixed satellite service. It was manufactured by the company Orbital Sciences Corporation and was launched from Kourou in French Guiana, and currently occupies the orbit 114.9° West.
Objectives
The Ministry of Communications and Transportation said in a statement that the new satellite would provide fixed broadband services for access to the Internet, digital high-quality satellite telephony, videoconferencing, remote medical care and education via television. It said that Bicentenario would provide services for emergency care "before, during and after emergencies".
The satellite was equipped with instruments for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals in the C and Ku bands.
Launch
The French company Arianespace launched an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Mexsat-3 satellite from the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, French Guiana at 18:50 local time (21:50 GMT) as part of a previously signed contract. The rocket reached the 100 kilometre mark (the distance from Earth which can be considered an orbit) in the first three minutes.
The satellite was placed in a high geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometres above the surface.
The former deputy secretary of communications at the Ministry of Communications and Transportation, Hector Olavarria, revealed via Twitter after the launch that "in about thirty minutes we will know of the satellite's arrival in orbit". Signals were successfully received shortly afterwards.
See also
Telecommunications in Mexico
Mexsat
Morelos Satellite System
References
External links
Satellites of Mexico
Spacecraft launched in 2012
2012 in Mexico
Satellites using the GEOStar bus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenes%20Argentinos%20Cargas | Belgrano Cargas y Logística S.A., trading as Trenes Argentinos Cargas, is an Argentine State-owned company which operates a freight rail network that includes Belgrano, Urquiza and San Martín railways. It is a subsidiary of Trenes Argentinos.
It is often erroneously called Belgrano Cargas by the Argentine government and press, despite the freight network encompassing numerous other Argentine railways, of which the General Belgrano Railway is only one.
Overview
The network extends through the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Mendoza, Santiago del Estero, San Juan, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Chaco, Formosa, Salta and Jujuy. The line also reaches all the Argentina's neighbouring countries, such as Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay.
TACyL currently operates 122 locomotives and 7,392 goods wagons, employing 3,140 workers whose jobs are guaranteed by the National government. In 2007, its predecessor Belgrano Cargas had transported nearly one million tonnes of merchandise, a figure which increased to over 3 million tonnes in 2014 following nationalisation.
History
In 2008, the Government of Argentina ceased the concession granted to Belgrano Cargas S.A. to operate the 7,347 km. of Belgrano Railway's freight network. "Belgrano Cargas y Logística" was established in May 2013 by National decree, to take over Belgrano's freight services, formerly operated by Belgrano Cargas. In June that same year the company also took over some services from Urquiza (2,704 km) and San Martín (5,254 km) railways.
That same year the National Government also rescinded the contract signed with América Latina Logística (ALL), taking over the services previously granted to the company, such as Urquiza and San Martín freight services that had been managed by ALL until then. The Government alleged that ALL had not complied with the terms of the contract, previously noted by the General Auditing Office of Argentina.
Soon after nationalisation, the government began looking to expand the fleet of the company and began making orders both domestically and abroad. One order consisted of 1000 freight wagons from Argentine state-owned company Fabricaciones Militares. The company also ordered 100 locomotives and 3,500 carriages from China as part of a plan that also included the purchase of 30,000 rails to repair parts of the line.
In September 2015, the Government of Argentina announced the completion of the 100 new diesel locomotives by Chinese CRRC Corporation, being the first locomotives purchased exclusively for freight transport in Argentina. Later that month the Ministry of the Interior and Transport, together with China Machinery Engineering Corporation, announced that the original Chinese investment of US$2.4 billion in the Argentine freight network was being doubled to US$4.8 billion and new purchases and infrastructure projects would ensue.
In August 2016, the first brand-new locomotive manufactured by CRRC was finished, as part of a total o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederator%20Networks | Frederator Networks, Inc. is a media company founded by Fred Seibert. It makes and distributes cartoons, often on Channel Frederator, and through its in-house animation studio Frederator Studios. It is the largest distributor of independent animation online.
On October 26, 2016, Canadian animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment acquired Frederator Networks, Inc. Rainmaker subsequently rebranded as Wow Unlimited Media.
Partnered content
Fin Punch/Personas Cetaceas
In February 2015, Frederator Networks acquired worldwide distribution rights to Personas Cetaceas, a Spanish language Chilean animated series, originally called Personas Cetaceas. It was renamed Fin Punch, dubbed into English, and hosted on Cartoon Hangover
Sony collaboration
In 2014, Frederator Networks and Sony Pictures Animation announced their new joint project, GO! Cartoons. Twelve, five-minute, animated shorts were planned to be viewed on Cartoon Hangover in 2016, but the series would eventually premiere on November 7, 2017. One of them will be picked to become an animated series on Cartoon Hangover.
Operating units
Channel Frederator Network
Channel Frederator Network (CFN) is a YouTube multi-channel network focused specifically on animation. They have signed 1,222 YouTube creators. As of October 2017, CFN has over 1 billion monthly views.
Frederator Studios
Frederator Studios is an animation studio run by Fred Seibert, who is largely known as the executive producer of Adventure Time, The Fairly OddParents, and The Powerpuff Girls.
Frederator Digital
Frederator Digital is a subsidiary of Frederator Networks that creates unscripted, informational and scripted programming for streaming on the internet. It is currently producing a series of 107 Facts videos, which can be seen on Channel Frederator, Cartoon Hangover, Cinematica, The Leaderboard, and MicDrop on YouTube
The Leaderboard Network
The Leaderboard Network is a YouTube multi-channel network that focuses exclusively on video games and gaming. Its main YouTube channel, The Leaderboard, launched in April 2015 and as of 2017 has over 550,000 subscribers with over 90 million views.
Cinematica
The Cinematica Network is a YouTube multi-channel network that focuses exclusively on TV and movies. Its main YouTube channel, Cinematica, launched in August 2015 and to date has over 22,000 subscribers with over 1.5 million views.
Átomo Network
In February 2016, Frederator Networks partnered with Ánima Estudios to launch the Átomo Network, a multi-channel network exclusively for Spanish speaking YouTube animation channels.
Frederator Shorts filmography
References
External links
American animation studios
Companies based in New York City
American companies established in 1997
Entertainment companies based in New York City
Entertainment companies established in 1997
Mass media companies established in 1997
Television production companies of the United States
Wow Unlimited Media
2016 mergers and acquisitions
American subsidia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%20%28CMS%29 | October is a self-hosted content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application framework. It supports MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL for the database back end and uses a flat file database for the front end structure. The October CMS covers a range of capabilities such as users, permissions, themes, and plugins, and is seen as a simpler alternative to WordPress.
The platform is intended to have a small learning curve and a template system easily manageable with version control systems. As of July 2021, October is the second-most starred PHP CMS repository hosted on GitHub and is 17th most popular on the Entire Internet in Open Source category. The platform won the CMS Critic People's Choice Award for Best Flat File CMS for 2018. The Dallas Museum of Art uses October CMS in their information kiosks
On April 12, 2021, October CMS transitioned from using an MIT License to a proprietary software model citing concerns over a lack of sustainability with the open-source model. In reaction to this change, the former maintainers of the project forked it and started Winter (CMS) project under MIT license, promising it to remain Free and Open Source.
Features
October offers the following features, among others:
Components, a key feature that are configurable building elements that can be attached to any page.
Building an interface requires minimal programming.
Flat files are used to serve the website structure.
Includes an Ajax framework built in for back-end and front-end.
Uses Twig as template engine. This makes it possible to completely separate data from the templates.
File manager with CDN support and image cropping.
CSS and JavaScript assets can be combined and minified with just a single tag in the CMS templates.
The whole setup is event-driven, which enables the user to hook into core or plugin processes and extend them.
Updates and plugins are delivered with a package manager.
Community-contributed extensions in the October CMS marketplace.
The back-end is translated into 36 languages.
Ukraine cyberattacks
From the 13th to 14th of January 2022, a known vulnerability in October CMS was used to deface the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cabinet of Ministers and other Ukrainian government websites as part of the 2022 Ukraine cyberattacks. The Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation announced that there was no data leak. The vulnerabilities were fixed nearly a year before the attack, although not all sites were running the latest version. Ukrainian cybersecurity agencies said the attack involved exploitation of CVE-2021-32648, a vulnerability in the October CMS, as well as the exploitation of the notorious Log4Shell flaw, and DDoS attacks.
See also
Content management system
List of content management systems
References
Content management systems
Formerly free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescale | Rescale is a software technology company that provides "Intelligent Computing for Digital R&D", with a focus on high-performance computing, cloud management, and computer aided engineering.
Overview
Rescale helps organizations across industries accelerate science and engineering breakthroughs by eliminating computing complexity. Rescale offers high-performance computing as-a-service to organizations through automation on a hybrid cloud control plane with security, architecture, and financial controls. Design Engineering magazine describes Rescale as "...a good fit for manufacturers who need to run complex simulation and optimization jobs, but don't have the HPC hardware required."
As of 2015, Rescale established the largest globally available HPC network which enables hybrid and multi-cloud operations across major cloud service providers and on-premises data centers. Rescale provides IT and HPC practitioners with access to computing architectures targeted to workloads in the aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical, computational genomics, manufacturing, electronic design automation, and semiconductor industries.
History
Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, California, by Joris Poort (CEO) and Adam McKenzie (CTO), Rescale launched in Y Combinator and has been recognized as a top company multiple times as recently as 2023. At Boeing, Poort and McKenzie, the founders, created software technology that achieved $180 million in savings by optimizing the 787 Dreamliner's weight.
Investors
Rescale has received investment funding from high-profile investors including Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham, and Peter Thiel. Notable corporate and venture capital investors include Nvidia, M12 (venture capital) arm of (Microsoft), Hitachi, Samsung, Initialized Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. By 2022, Rescale had raised over $200 million and reached a valuation of over $1 billion, making it the first unicorn company in cloud high performance computing.
Partnerships
Rescale has strategic partnerships with major cloud infrastructure providers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Platform and with engineering software companies in the computer aided engineering space including ANSYS, AutoForm, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Dassault Systemes and MSC Software.
See also
Cloud computing
Enterprise software
High performance computing
Computer aided engineering
Product lifecycle management
Software-defined infrastructure
Digital Twin
Multidisciplinary design optimization
References
External links
Rescale's website
Rescale is a part of the Big Compute consortium
Business software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution%20model | In computing, a programming language consists of a syntax plus an execution model. The execution model specifies the behavior of elements of the language. By applying the execution model, one can derive the behavior of a program that was written in terms of that programming language. For example, when a programmer "reads" code, in their mind, they walk through what each line of code does. In effect they simulate the behavior inside their mind. What the programmer is doing is applying the execution model to the code, which results in the behavior of the code.
Each and every programming language has an execution model, which determines the manner in which the units of work (that are indicated by program syntax) are scheduled for execution. Detailed examples of the specification of execution models of a few popular languages include those of Python,
the execution model of the Unified Parallel C (UPC) programming language,
a discussion of various classes of execution model such as for imperative versus functional languages,
and an article discussing execution models for real-time embedded languages.
Details of an execution model
Operational Semantics is one method of specifying a language's execution model. The observed behavior of a running program must match the behavior derived from the operational semantics (which define the execution model of the language).
An execution model covers things such as what is an indivisible unit of work, and what are the constraints on the order in which those units of work may take place. For example, the addition operation is an indivisible unit of work in many languages, and in sequential languages such units of work are constrained to take place one after the other.
To illustrate this, consider the C programming language, as described in the book by Kernighan and Richie.
C has a concept called a statement. The language specification defines a statement as a chunk of syntax that is terminated by a ";". The language spec then says that "execution of the program proceeds one statement after the other, in sequence". Those words: "execution of the program proceeds one statement after the other, in sequence" are one piece of the execution model of C. Those words tell us that statements are indivisible units of work and that they proceed in the same order as their syntactic appearance in the code (except when a control statement such as IF or FOR modifies the order). By stating that "execution of the program proceeds one statement after the other, in sequence", the programming model has stated constraints on the order of performing units of work.
The C language actually has an additional level to its execution model, which is the order of precedence. Order of precedence states the rules for the order of operations within a single statement. The order of precedence can be viewed as stating the constraints on performing the units of work that are within a single statement. So, ";" and "IF" and "WHI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naemon | Naemon is an open-source computer system monitoring, network monitoring and infrastructure monitoring software application. Naemon offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications, and services. It alerts the users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved. Naemon was created in 2014 as a fork of Nagios.
It is available for Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Overview
Naemon is open source software licensed under the GNU GPL V2. It provides:
Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.).
Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.).
A simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks.
Parallelized service checks.
Thruk Monitoring Webinterface.
The ability to define network host hierarchies using 'parent' hosts, allowing the detection of and distinction between hosts that are down or unreachable.
Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via e-mail, pager, or any user-defined method through plugin system).
The ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
Automatic log file rotation
Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
See also
Comparison of network monitoring systems
Nagios
Icinga – Another Nagios fork
Shinken (software) – Another Nagios fork
References
External links
Official Naemon website
Internet Protocol based network software
Free network management software
Multi-agent network management software
Network analyzers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Mother%27s%20Secret | My Mother's Secret is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Neal del Rosario, it stars Kim Rodriguez and Gwen Zamora. It premiered on May 25, 2015 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing the rerun of My Love from the Star. The series concluded on August 7, 2015 with a total of 54 episodes. It was replaced by Reply 1997 in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Neri's dream is a good life with her mother, Cora. But due to unexpected circumstances, she began to know the couple, Vivian and Anton - who will adopt her and send her to school. It will start to change her life including to know the truth that Vivian is her real mother.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kim Rodriguez as Nerissa "Neri" Pastor-Guevarra
Supporting cast
Gwen Zamora as Vivian Pastor-Guevarra
Christian Bautista as Anton Guevarra
Lotlot De Leon as Cora Macapugay
Kiko Estrada as Craig de Leon
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino as Esther Guevarra
Meryll Soriano as Stella Pastor
Enzo Pineda as Gavin de Leon
Diva Montelaba as Lorraine de Leon
Jhoana Marie Tan as Karen Pastor Lopez
Frances Makil-Ignacio as Chato de Villa
Ervic Vijandre as Edwin Lopez
Tricia Cabais as Heidi P. Guevarra / Heidi P. Lopez
Guest cast
Mark Herras as Migs San Real
Sam Pinto as Lucy Arevalo
Caprice Cayetano as young Nerisa "Neri" Guevarra
Richard Quan as Bernard
Mike Lloren as Luis
Coleen Perez as Paula
Miggs Cuaderno as Mac
Episodes
May 2015
June 2015
July 2015
August 2015
Episodes notes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of My Mother's Secret earned a 9.7% rating. While the final episode scored an 11.5% rating. The series had its highest rating on July 24, 2015 with a 14.4%
rating.
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20Black-Eyed%20Susan%20Stakes | The 2015 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes was the 91st running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The race took place on May 15, 2015, and was televised in the United States on the NBC Sports Network. Ridden by jockey Javier Castellano, Keen Pauline won the race by a two and three-quarter lengths over runner-up Include Betty. Approximate post time on the Friday evening before the Preakness Stakes was 4:52 p.m. Eastern Time. The Maryland Jockey Club supplied a purse of $250,000 for the 91st running. The race was run over a fast track in a final time of 1:50.46. The Maryland Jockey Club reported a Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day record attendance of 42,700. The attendance at Pimlico Race Course that day was a record crowd for Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Day.
Payout
The 91st Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (9–5) paid $ 211.00
$2 Trifecta: (9–5–3) paid $ 1,356.00
$1 Superfecta: (9–5–3-1) paid $ 1,629.90
The full chart
Winning Breeder: Stonestreet Stables; (KY)
Final Time: 1:50.46
Track Condition: Fast
Total Attendance: Record of 42,700
See also
2015 Preakness Stakes
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Stakes "top three finishers" and # of starters
References
External links
Official Black-Eyed Susan Stakes website
Official Preakness website
2015 in horse racing
Horse races in Maryland
2015 in American sports
2015 in sports in Maryland
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voyage%20of%20the%20Odyssey | The Voyage of the Odyssey was a five-year program conducted by oceanographic research and education non-profit Ocean Alliance, which collected the first baseline data set on contaminants in the world’s oceans. It was launched from San Diego in March 2000, and ended five and a half years later in Boston, August 2005.
In a 1979 National Geographic magazine article Ocean Alliance founder and president Dr. Roger Payne predicted that toxic pollution would replace the harpoon as the next greatest threat to whales. Recognizing the stark lack of data on the subject, Roger set his organisation Ocean Alliance with the task of obtaining a global baseline data set on contaminants.
After years of planning and fund-raising, the program was finally ready to launch in 2000. In the executive summary of the project, Roger stated that, "The Voyage of the Odyssey has proven irrefutably that ocean life is becoming polluted to unacceptable levels by metals and human-made contaminants."
The focus of the program was on sperm whales, a cosmopolitan species found in every major ocean. As long-lived apex predators, sperm whales represent a useful bioindicator of health in the marine ecosystem in a toxicological context, owing to the effects of three key processes: bioaccumulation, biomagnification and the generation effect. These three processes also make sperm whales, and other apex predators, at great risk from toxic pollution. As mammalian apex predators that nurse their young with milk, they are also relatively similar to us, and thus are seen as the ‘canaries in the coal mine’ regarding humanity's relationship with the oceans.
The program also had a robust educational and outreach component. In every country they visited, Odyssey crew members met with government leaders, students, teachers and journalists-many of whom kept promoting ocean health after the Odyssey departed for its next research location. The program was also the focus of a major online diary and educational webseries through American broadcaster PBS produced by Genevieve & Chris Johnson.
Aside from collecting the first baseline data set on contaminants in the world’s oceans, the program was witness to a number of other successes, innovations and firsts. These include:
uncovering illegal shark finning operations
documenting the use of massive drift nets in the Mediterranean
helping to create a 1.2 million square-mile marine mammal sanctuary in Papua New Guinea waters
made incredibly rare sightings of a live Longman’s beaked whale
References
Research projects
Oceanographic expeditions
Ocean pollution
2000 in California
2005 in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneanation | Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins (stylized as SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins) was an improv comedy podcast hosted by Paul F. Tompkins on the Earwolf network. Based upon an interview with a special guest, Tompkins and several "improvisational friends" (often co-stars from The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Superego, No, You Shut Up!, or Bajillion Dollar Propertie$) performed narrative improv, set in a location provided by the guest. Spontaneanation'''s 200th and final episode was released on January 21, 2019.
Episode format
Each episode of Spontaneanation contains two segments: an interview with a special guest, followed by an improvisational scene that contains elements from the preceding interview, taking place in a setting given by that week's guest. Each interview begins with a question supplied by the previous episode's guest, without revealing their identity. Additionally, Tompkins begins each show with a brief improvised stream of consciousness monologue. The improvisational scene and monologue are scored by Eban Schletter on piano.
The podcast is notably different from Tompkins' previous podcast, The Pod F. Tompkast, in that it is entirely improvised, where the Tompkast featured pre-recorded bits and heavy editing.
Because I’m used to everything I do being very involved with a lot of pre-production and post-production and I really wanted to be able to walk in, record and it's just done. And that's how I arrived at what is Spontaneanation.
— Paul F. Tompkins
Tompkins ends each episode with the phrase semper en presente, a Latin phrase translating to "always in the present" or "always in the moment."
In addition to in-studio tapings, Spontaneanation is often recorded in front of a live audience at Café Largo in Los Angeles.
At the end of the May 28th, 2018 "Tribute To Paul F. Tompkins" episode, Tompkins announced that he would be formally ending Spontaneanation once it reached 200 episodes. The 200th episode, "Charleston, South Carolina", dropped January 20, 2019; Busy Philipps was the featured guest—she was also guest on episode one.
Episode list† signifies that the guest participated in the improv bit of the show.
(*) denotes that the episode was recorded in front of a live audience.
Improv players
Recognition
The podcast has been listed on several "Best Of" lists for podcasts in 2015. The show was included in Apple's collection of "The Best Podcasts of 2015. Paste magazine placed Spontaneanation in the fifth spot on their list of The 10 Best Comedy Podcasts of 2015, referring to it as "both an illuminating chat show and a strong argument in favor of the often-maligned artform of improv comedy." "A Theme Park Break Room" was included on Vulture's list of the Best Comedy Podcast Episodes of 2015, referring to it as "what was easily one of the most wildly funny podcasts of 2015."
References
External links
Audio podcasts
Comedy podcasts
Earwolf
2015 podcast debuts
2019 podcast endings
Improvisational podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logjam%20%28computer%20security%29 | Logjam is a security vulnerability in systems that use Diffie–Hellman key exchange with the same prime number. It was discovered by a team of computer scientists and publicly reported on May 20, 2015. The discoverers were able to demonstrate their attack on 512-bit (US export-grade) DH systems. They estimated that a state level attacker could do so for 1024-bit systems, then widely used, thereby allowing decryption of a significant fraction of Internet traffic. They recommended upgrading to at least 2048-bits for shared prime systems.
Details
Diffie–Hellman key exchange depends for its security on the presumed difficulty of solving the discrete logarithm problem. The authors took advantage of the fact that the number field sieve algorithm, which is generally the most effective method for finding discrete logarithms, consists of four large computational steps, of which the first three depend only on the order of the group G, not on the specific number whose finite log is desired. If the results of the first three steps are precomputed and saved, they can be used to solve any discrete log problem for that prime group in relatively short time. This vulnerability was known as early as 1992. It turns out that much Internet traffic only uses one of a handful of groups that are of order 1024 bits or less.
One approach enabled by this vulnerability that the authors demonstrated was using a man-in-the-middle network attacker to downgrade a Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection to use 512-bit DH export-grade cryptography, allowing them to read the exchanged data and inject data into the connection. It affects the HTTPS, SMTPS, and IMAPS protocols, among others. The authors needed several thousand CPU cores for a week to precompute data for a single 512-bit prime. Once that was done, however, individual logarithms could be solved in about a minute using two 18-core Intel Xeon CPUs. Its CVE ID is .
The authors also estimated the feasibility of the attack against 1024-bit Diffie–Hellman primes. By design, many Diffie–Hellman implementations use the same pre-generated prime for their field. This was considered secure, since the discrete log problem is still considered hard for big-enough primes even if the group is known and reused. The researchers calculated the cost of creating logjam precomputation for one 1024-bit prime at hundreds of millions of USD, and noted that this was well within range of the FY2012 $10.5 billion U.S. Consolidated Cryptologic Program (which includes NSA). Because of the reuse of primes, generating precomputation for just one prime would break two-thirds of VPNs and a quarter of all SSH servers globally. The researchers noted that this attack fits claims in leaked NSA papers that NSA is able to break much current cryptography. They recommend using primes of 2048 bits or more as a defense or switching to elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH).
Claims on the practical implications of the attack were however disputed by security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAFFICTHIEF | Trafficthief (stylized TRAFFICTHIEF) is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) and operated under the Turbulence program, containing "Meta-data from a subset of tasked strong-selectors," according to an XKeyscore presentation. An example of a strong selector is an email address. In other words, it would be a database of the metadata associated with names, phone numbers, email addresses, and other identifying information that intelligence services are specifically targeting. Journalist Marc Ambinder speculates the program is a "raw SIGINT viewer for data analysis."
References
National Security Agency
Espionage projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20simplex%20algorithm | In mathematical optimization, the network simplex algorithm is a graph theoretic specialization of the simplex algorithm. The algorithm is usually formulated in terms of a minimum-cost flow problem. The network simplex method works very well in practice, typically 200 to 300 times faster than the simplex method applied to general linear program of same dimensions.
History
For a long time, the existence of a provably efficient network simplex algorithm was one of the major open problems in complexity theory, even though efficient-in-practice versions were available. In 1995 Orlin provided the first polynomial algorithm with runtime of where is maximum cost of any edges. Later Tarjan improved this to using dynamic trees in 1997. Strongly polynomial dual network simplex algorithms for the same problem, but with a higher dependence on the numbers of edges and vertices in the graph, have been known for longer.
Overview
The network simplex method is an adaptation of the bounded variable primal simplex algorithm. The basis is represented as a rooted spanning tree of the underlying network, in which variables are represented by arcs, and the simplex multipliers by node potentials. At each iteration, an entering variable is selected by some pricing strategy, based on the dual multipliers (node potentials), and forms a cycle with the arcs of the tree. The leaving variable is the arc of the cycle with the least augmenting flow. The substitution of entering for leaving arc, and the reconstruction of the tree is called a pivot. When no non-basic arc remains eligible to enter, the optimal solution has been reached.
Applications
The network simplex algorithm can be used to solve many practical problems including,
Transshipment problem
Hitchcock transportation problem
Assignment problem
Chains and antichains in partially ordered sets
System of distinct representatives
Covers and matching in bipartite graphs
Caterer problem
References
External links
Solving Network Problems Section 14, p B-113 shows an example execution
Optimization algorithms and methods
Linear programming
Network flow problem
Mathematical problems
Network theory
Polynomial-time problems
Graph algorithms
Computational problems in graph theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop%20Procrastinating | Stop Procrastinating is an internet and website blocking computer software that restricts access to the Internet or specific websites for a set amount of time to avoid or limit online distraction. It has become a popular tool for students, writers, home workers and self-employed entrepreneurs as well for parents to help control and limited their children's internet use. It is also used extensively by men trying to break their addiction to pornography.
The software has become a notable and popular tool with students as a way to block internet distraction while studying. It has been covered extensively by national university publications and undergraduate student publications. It has been reviewed by College News, the most visited student online news and review website in the US and was recommended as being "the best internet blocker on the market." Influential college publications at the leading US universities of Georgia, Iowa, and Arizona have confirmed the software's popular appeal and how it has become an essential tool for students to study undistracted by the internet, citing downloads of more than 12,000 in just a few weeks.
Stop Procrastinating is also recognised for its influential and extensive independent research about the impact of the internet. A recent influential study undertaken with thousands of parents became international headline news as it was shown that parents face a dilemma as parents felt that they couldn't prevent their children from using the internet, despite evidence that it affects their concentration, because they needed it to study. The issue was a concern for both parents and educational authorities as the move to Internet-based learning was seen to encourage greater internet use by children. The issue was covered in-depth and as headline news by Judith Burns, an expert educational correspondent at the BBC, one of the world's most reputable news outlets.
Its extensive research into how the internet significantly lowers the productivity of employees at work was covered by national newspaper outlets across the world, including in the UK, the Daily Telegraph and in Spain by El Pais, the most read newspaper in Spanish.
Features
The software allows users to set a time from one minute to 24 hours and then chose one of three options to block the internet for the time period they have selected. One option allows users to block the internet connection completely but reconnect to the internet by restarting the computer before the time is completed, while a second option prevents users getting back online until the time is up, even if they restart. The software offers a third option called a blacklist, where users can list websites they wish to block, thus still having access to the internet connection, except for the websites they have listed. It was set up by a group of freelance writers and programmers who claim they needed to develop a tool to help cut online distraction. The application is described as helping stude |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree%20Centre | The Hartree Centre is a high performance computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) research facility focused on industry-led challenges. It was formed in 2012 at Daresbury Laboratory on the Sci-Tech Daresbury science and innovation campus in Cheshire, UK. The Hartree Centre is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) which itself is part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Background
The Hartree Centre takes its name from English mathematician and physicist Douglas Rayner Hartree. It was formed in 2012 with £37.5 million government funding for research into supercomputing. The centre's purpose is to provide UK industry and academia with access to advanced high performance computing technologies, expertise and training to boost UK economic growth and "to develop technologies such as batteries for mobile phones".
In 2014, the centre was allocated an additional £19 million for research into energy efficient computing and big data, such as that which will be generated by the Square Kilometre Array.
In the 2014 Autumn Statement, government announced a further investment of £115 million for the centre over five years, to fund future scientific discovery in research areas including cognitive computing and big data analytics. This was part of the Northern Powerhouse strategy to boost economic growth in the North of England.
In 2014, the Hartree Centre became an official Intel Parallel Computing Centre.
The Hartree Centre is a base for one of the IBM Research teams in the UK and the University of Liverpool Virtual Engineering Centre.
According to the Annual Report from 2017-2018, the Hartree Centre was funded with £115.5mm for the financial year ending 31 March 2018.
Technologies
The Hartree Centre hosts a number of supercomputing platforms including:
Scafell Pike, a Bull Sequana X1000 with Intel Skylake CPUs and Intel Xeon Phi accelerators
Lenovo NeXtScale
Lenovo System x iDataPlex system
JADE, an Atos Bull system using 63 Nvidia DGX-1
JADE2 Atos Bull Nvidia DGX-1 Max-Q
Atos Quantum Learning Machine
Visual Computing Centre
IBM POWER8 + NVLink + Tesla P100
IBM POWER8 + Nvidia K80
In 2017, Scafell Pike became the first Bull Sequana X1000 to be installed in the UK.
The centre also houses a large scale GPFS storage system.
Past Technologies
The Hartree Centre formerly hosted supercomputer Blue Joule, an IBM Blue Gene/Q. In June 2012, the year of its installation at Daresbury Laboratory, the TOP500 project ranked Blue Joule as the most powerful non-distributed computing system in the UK and 13th in the world.
In 2016, Blue Joule was upcycled into the DiRAC facility at the Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University.
Hartree has hosted experimental technologies such as a Maxeler FPGA system, an ARM 64-bit platform, and a ClusterVision-built novel cooling demonstrator using mineral oil.
Energy Efficient Computing
In 2012, the centre was awarded government funding to streng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoaib%20Ahmed%20Shaikh | Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, also known as SAS, is a Pakistani businessman and convicted felon. He is the founder of BOL Network. He also founded diploma mill company Axact.
Career
In June 2013, Shoaib Ahmed Sheikh started Pakistani 24-hour news cycle network BOL.
Fake diplomas scandal and arrest
Notes
References
Living people
Axact
BOL Network people
Businesspeople from Karachi
Pakistani mass media businesspeople
Pakistani chief executives
Pakistani fraudsters
Pakistani prisoners and detainees
Pakistani money launderers
People with acquired Saint Kitts and Nevis citizenship
People convicted of fraud
Saint Kitts and Nevis people of Pakistani descent
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Francis%20Merriam | Daniel Francis Merriam (February 2, 1927 – April 26, 2017) was an American geologist best known for fostering the development of quantitative modeling in geology after the advent of digital computers. He first joined the Kansas Geological Survey in 1953, initially working under the direction Raymond C. Moore to have a more accurate knowledge about the geology of the state. His fascination with the new possibilities offered by computers started ten years later while working with John W. Harbaugh at Stanford University as Visiting Research Scientist. In the following seven years, he was active organizing colloquia and as editor of the Computer Contributions, who saw 50 publications in the series by pioneers in the new field. Merriam accepted the position of Chairman of the Department of Geology at Syracuse University in 1971 and moved to the same position at Wichita State University in 1981, coming back to the Kansas Geological Survey in 1991 to retire in 1997, remaining as an Emeritus Scientist.
Consistent with his interest to promote the use of computers in geology, Dan was instrumental in founding the International Association for Mathematical Geology (IAMG) in 1968, serving as its second Secretary General (1972–1976) and third President (1976–1980). In 1969, he started for the Association what is today the Mathematical Geosciences journal and in 1975 Computers & Geosciences jointly with IAMG and Pergamon Press. He received the William Christian Krumbein Medal in 1982 in appreciation for his services to the IAMG and the profession and a festschrift in 1993. In 1992, the Geological Society (London) presented him the William Smith Medal.
Education
BS in geology, 1949,University of Kansas
MS in geology, 1953, University of Kansas
MSc in geology, 1969, Leicester University
PhD, 1961, University of Kansas
DSc, 1975, Leicester University
Selected bibliography
Daniel F. Merriam, and John C. Davis, eds. (2001). Geologic Modeling and Simulation: Sedimentary Systems. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 352 p.
Andrea Förster and Daniel F. Merriam, eds. (1999). Geothermics and Basin Analysis. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 240 p.
Andrea Förster and Daniel F. Merriam, eds. (1996). Geologic Modeling and Mapping. Pergamon Press, 334 p.
Jan Harff and Daniel F. Merriam, eds. (1993). Computerized Basin Analysis: The Prognosis of Energy and Mineral Resources. Plenum Press, 340 p.
Hans Kürzl and Daniel F. Merriam, eds. (1992). Use of Microcomputers in Geology. Plenum Press, 285 p.
Daniel F. Merriam, ed. (1988). Current Trends in Geomathematics. Plenum Press, 334 p.
Daniel F. Merriam, ed. (1981). Computers Applications in the Earth Sciences: An Update of the 70s. Plenum Press, 385 p.
Daniel F. Merriam, ed. (1976). Quantitative Techniques for the Analysis of Sediments: A Symposium
Daniel F. Merriam, ed. (1976). Random Processes in Geology. Springer-Verlag, 168 p.
Daniel F. Merriam, ed. (1969). Mathematical Models of Sedimentary Processes. P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation%20Army%20Vision%20Network | The Salvation Army Vision Network (aka Savn.tv) is a US based digital channel endowed by The Salvation Army, a quasi-military fashioned charitable organization founded by William Booth in 1865. It develops and provides accounts of the Salvation Army through short films, a number of series and documentaries with emphases on inspirational stories, prayers, meditations, and uplifting advice, and broadcasts all of its original content, and acquired content, worldwide online via its website.
History
Savn.tv grew out of the internet mission statement of The Salvation Army in early 2011. It was officially launched in September 2011 by Commissioner Jim Knaggs. The Salvation Army assists suffering humanity globally, with a mission to be beneficial to society or the community of humankind as a whole. Inspired by the potential of the web and advancement in technology, it provided the opportunity for The Salvation Army to innovate and embrace the internet for the delivery of its services and offerings. Due to these driving factors, the Salvation Army entered into the digital age and launched its global video initiative, Savn.tv. They promoted it as a call to action website, involving the Christian community, social activists, and other like-minded people directly online through film and video. The network features salvation topics, online groups and channels, where the salvation community can create their own channel to display their content and views. It provided an online platform for users to create a personal social media mission station which provides visual encouragement to be involved physically, spiritually, and financially in the mission of their choosing.
In 2013, Salvation Army Vision Network partnered with multi-faith media organization, Odyssey Networks to work together on a Call on Faith all-video broadcast mobile app. The new channel features video content from the Savn.tv's website. In May 2015, Savn.tv won 2015 The Webby Awards by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, in the Religion & Spirituality category. The website was designed and built by Reverge
References
External links
Official website
The Salvation Army
English-language television stations in the United States
Religious television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hotplate | The Hotplate was an Australian cooking reality television series which aired on the Nine Network on 28 July 2015. The show consisted of state-based restaurants with teams travelling the country to dine in and score each other's restaurants. The restaurants were judged by British food writer and critic, Tom Parker Bowles and Melbourne restaurateur, Scott Pickett. The show pit six established suburban restaurants against each other all striving for a leg up in the industry—and an extra $100,000 in the bank, Sydney's Guillaume Brahimi, the French-born chef, appeared as a special guest judge during all elimination episodes.
Only one season of the program has been produced, following legal action from the Seven Network claiming the format is too similar to its own program My Kitchen Rules. Nine and Seven reached a settlement in which Nine agreed that no further seasons would be produced, and the inaugural season would never be replayed.
Format
Local restaurant heroes from around the country will do battle over dinner, they will be judged on all aspects of the restaurant experience. The worst performing teams will face elimination. The winner of the competition will receive $100,000 prize and realise their food dream.
Series overview
Elimination history
Teams
Series Details
Private Dinners
Each team has 3 hours to prep their food they are cooking. The teams and judges decide what they want to eat from their menu. Two entrees, mains and desserts are chosen. The teams score the team out of 10 for a whole score out of 50, the judges score the food and restaurant experience (separately out of 10) for a score out of 20 (score of 40 together).
Christina & Tania - Italian
Episode 1
Airdate — 28 July 2015
Phillipe & Pascal - French
Episode 2
Airdate — 29 July 2015
Aron & Vanessa - Mod Aus
Episode 3
Airdate — 30 July 2015
Conrad & Liam - Asian Fusion
Episode 4
Airdate — 3 August 2015
Marie & Emi - Japanese
Episode 5
Airdate — 4 August 2015
Lozz & Nols - Seafood
Episode 6
Airdate — 5 August 2015
1st Elimination Dinner
The 2 teams will cook 3 meals (like in the private dinners) over a 3-hour period, they must use 3 main ingredients but cooked to their style of cooking. The judges are joined by a special judge, Guillaume Brahimi, to judge the food. The over teams eat the food but do not judge it, the 2 teams are not given points but are only judge on how each meal tastes.
Episode 7
Airdate — 10 August 2015
Makeover Round
Each team has $20,000 each to renovate their restaurant within 72 hours. Their menus will have a makeover, they are given 3 new recipes which they have to put their food style into. They must deliver 3 dishes (same as the private dinners), each team are judged out of 100.
Aron & Vanessa
Episode 8
Airdate — 11 August 2015
Lozz & Nols
Episode 9
Airdate — 12 August 2015
Phillipe & Pascal
Episode 10
Airdate — 17 August 2015
Marie & Emi
Episode 11
Airdate — 18 August 2015
Christina & Tania
Episode 12
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amara%20Walker | Amara Walker or Amara Sohn-Walker (; née Sohn) is an American journalist and a news anchor for CNN This Morning Weekend. She is also a correspondent on CNN. Since joining the network in 2014, she has anchored numerous hours of breaking news.
Early life and education
Walker, who is a Korean American, was born and raised outside Los Angeles. In 2003, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a double degree in broadcast journalism and political science.
Career
Walker started her career at KMIR-TV in Palm Springs. In 2005, Walker joined the NBC-owned WTVJ in Miami, Florida, where she worked as a news anchor and a general assignment reporter.
In July 2012, Walker transferred her roles as a news anchor and a general assignment reporter to the Fox-owned WFLD in Chicago, Illinois after moving there with her husband. In December 2013, Walker departed WFLD and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, where she joined CNN International. From 2015 to 2020, Walker anchored a three-hour daily news program on CNN International's CNN Today with colleague Michael Holmes.
In March 2021, Walker reported on air that she had been the victim of anti-East Asian insults. In February 2022, she published an opinion piece about violence against East Asian-American women. On October 8, 2022, she was officially named co-anchor of New Day Weekend, now CNN This Morning Weekend.
Personal life
In April 2012, Walker married otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon Thomas Walker in Austria. Aside from her native English, she also speaks Spanish and Korean, although Walker has stated that her Korean is not proficient.
References
External links
Amara Walker's profile on CNN.com
American people of Korean descent
Television anchors from Chicago
American television reporters and correspondents
CNN people
Living people
NBC News people
University of Southern California alumni
1981 births
Journalists from Los Angeles
Television anchors from Miami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Australian%20Spelling%20Bee | The Great Australian Spelling Bee was an Australian reality series on Network Ten. Hosted by Grant Denyer and Chrissie Swan, and produced by Shine Australia, the series premiered from 3 August 2015 until 17 September 2016. The series also stars Chris Edmund as pronouncer.
The series is based on the spelling bee competition whereby contestants are required to spell presented words which vary in their degree of difficulty.
For the first season, the winner received a $50,000 education scholarship, $10,000 worth of equipment for his school, a Macquarie Dictionary, a Sprout computer, and an HP Pro Slate 8 tablet. In addition, the five runners-up received scholarships worth $10,000, an HP Pro Slate 8 tablet, and $1,000 of education goods for their school.
On 19 August 2015, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on 17 July 2016.
The Great Australian Spelling Bee was filmed at Fox Studios Australia.
Series overview
Format
Individual Challenges
Dictionary Dash
This challenge featured dictionaries, which the competitors must find a word in. The first person to find the word in this challenge would get an advantage in speed spell, which is to select your theme first. The others followed in order of who won dictionary dash in the next rounds.
Flash Cards
Prior to the challenge, the spellers are introduced to a theme of the words that are going to be spelled for the challenge.
Then the spellers receive a token. The tokens are either red or blue and has a letter spelt from A to all the way to the last letter depending on the number of spellers left. The spellers are then arranged in two lines: blue on one side, red on the other and in order of A, B, C and so on.
The challenge is to spell the word relating to the theme correctly by writing it on a tablet within ten seconds. The speller who spells the word correctly will be through to the next round and the other speller will not be safe. This continues for all pairs. If in any case the pairs spell the word correctly for six rounds, a tiebreaker round will happen. To win, the speller who finishes their word first immediately shows their flash cards to the pronouncer.
Letter By Letter Knock Out Mode
Normal Letter By Letter rules apply, except spellers are not in teams, and if you make a mistake, you're out of the round.
Show And Spell Individual Edition
Normal Show And Spell rules apply, except spellers don't earn points for their team, they do for themselves.
Speed Spell
One by one, spellers must stand inside the spell gate and spell as many words as they can in 45/60 seconds. Spelling a word incorrectly will end their turn regardless of time left.
This is usually the first challenge on elimination days. The top spellers, depending on the episode, will be safe from elimination.
Spell Check
The remaining spellers are required to stand in front of their buzzer while a word is shown on screen. The word may be correct or incorrect in which case if it's incorrect, the speller who |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblies%20Jehovah%20Shammah | The Assemblies Jehovah Shammah are an Evangelical Christian network of churches that originated in India, which is still home to the great majority of them. The Evangelical publication Operation World estimates their numbers, as of 2010, at 310,000 adults and children in 910 assemblies, as their churches are generally known. Other sources estimate upwards of two thousand congregations, with a large presence in the State of Andhra Pradesh. The movement was founded in 1942 by evangelist Bakht Singh, whose theology and ecclesiology were much influenced by the Open Brethren. Although historically distinct from the Indian Brethren movement, which originated from missionary endeavours, the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah have a lot in common with it and are sometimes (but not always) considered a part of the Brethren movement worldwide.
Theology and Ecclesiology
Theologically, the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah are a conservative Evangelical movement placing a great emphasis on the preaching and expounding of scripture. They are a lay movement with no ordained clergy, and each congregation is led by elders who take responsibility for the spiritual needs of those in fellowship. Assemblies Jehovah Shammah do not have a formal membership, but regard any Christian who has been baptised as a believer and attends regularly as being part of their fellowship. Holy Communion is celebrated weekly as part of a largely informal worship service, with any believer in the congregation who feels "moved by the Holy Spirit" offering prayers, sharing scriptures, or suggesting hymns. This period of free worship is followed by an hour-long sermon. In these matters, the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah greatly resemble the Open Brethren, but with certain adaptations to Indian culture, such as seating the congregation on mats on the floor. Unlike much of the wider Brethren movement, however, the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah have never restricted women from participating audibly in worship; until the last two decades, the great majority of Brethren assemblies around the world had a policy of reserving the "vocal" roles in worship to men only. Much (though not all) of the Indian Brethren movement remains very conservative and resistant to the changes that have occurred in some parts of the Brethren world in the last generation. This is one of the lines of demarcation between the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah and the older Indian Brethren movement.
Although the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah developed independently of the Indian Brethren movement, the many similarities between the two movements mean that the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah is often considered part of the Brethren movement worldwide. It is categorized as such by the World Christian Encyclopedia. Indian Brethren theologian and historian Thottukadavil Eapen Koshy also regards them as such, as did the late Scottish Brethren missionary, Daniel Smith. In Pakistan, unlike India, the Assemblies Jehovah Shammah operate under the "Brethren" label |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networks%20and%20Heterogeneous%20Media | Networks and Heterogeneous Media is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the American Institute of Mathematics and sponsored by the Istituto per le applicazioni del calcolo. The journal was established in 2006 and focuses on networks, heterogeneous media, and related fields. The editor-in-chief is Benedetto Piccoli (Rutgers University).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Zentralblatt MATH, MathSciNet, Scopus, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, and Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.952.
References
External links
Mathematics journals
Academic journals established in 2006
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20processing%20inequality | The data processing inequality is an information theoretic concept that states that the information content of a signal cannot be increased via a local physical operation. This can be expressed concisely as 'post-processing cannot increase information'.
Statement
Let three random variables form the Markov chain , implying that the conditional distribution of depends only on and is conditionally independent of . Specifically, we have such a Markov chain if the joint probability mass function can be written as
In this setting, no processing of , deterministic or random, can increase the information that contains about . Using the mutual information, this can be written as :
With the equality if and only if , i.e. and contain the same information about , and also forms a Markov chain.
Proof
One can apply the chain rule for mutual information to obtain two different decompositions of :
By the relationship , we know that and are conditionally independent, given , which means the conditional mutual information, . The data processing inequality then follows from the non-negativity of .
See also
Garbage in, garbage out
References
External links
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Mutual_information
Data processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza%20Zarrindast | Alireza Zarrindast (; born 1945 in Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian Cinematographer. He is the brother of Tony Zarrindast.
Notes
External links
Alireza Zarrindast in Internet database of Soureh Cinema
Living people
People from Tabriz
1945 births
Iranian cinematographers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20M.%20Sama | Catherine M. Sama is a professor of Italian at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on Early Modern and 18th-Century Italian Women Writers, Correspondence Networks, The Italian Enlightenment, Italian Women Artists, and Gender Studies. In 2013 she was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship. She also serves as a board member of the URI Center for the Humanities. She has edited the work and written a biography of the 18th-century Italian writer Elisabetta Caminèr Turra.
Education
Sama earned her BA from the University of Virginia in 1985, where she majored in French and minored in Italian. She earned her PhD from Brown University in 1995. She also serves as a board member of the URI Center for the Humanities.
Selected publications
Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour.
Elisabetta Caminer Turra, Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters.
"On Canvas and on the Page: Women Shaping Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice", in Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour, edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), 125-150; 383-393.
"Luisa Bergalli e le sorelle Carriera: un rapporto d'amicizia e di collaborazione professionale", in Luisa Bergalli poetessa drammaturga traduttrice critica letteraria, edited by Adriana Chemello (Mirano-Venice: Eidos, 2008), 59-75.
"Liberty, Equality, Frivolity! An Italian Critique of Fashion Periodicals". Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 37, no. 3 (2004): 389-414.
"Becoming Visible: a Biography of Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) During Her Formative Years". Studi veneziani N.S. LXIII (2002): 349-388.
Selected honors and awards
2006-2007: URI Center for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship
2008: URI Center for the Humanities Visiting Scholar Grant, for the visit of Professor Antonia Arslan.
2008: URI Center for the Humanities Faculty Research Grant
2013: *URI Center for the Humanities Sabbatical Fellowship
2013: National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship
2017:URI Teaching Excellence Award
Further reading
Jones, Verina R. "Work: Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters by Elisabetta Caminer Turra, Catherine M. Sama". The Modern Language Review Vol. 103, No. 1 (Jan., 2008), pp. 254–255 Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Storrs, Christopher. "Reviewed Work: Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour by Paula Findlen; Wendy Wassyng Roworth; Catherine M. Sama." The English Historical Review, Vol. 125, No. 512 (FEBRUARY 2010), pp. 194–196. Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Carole, Paul. "Reviewed works: Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour; Rome on the Grand Tour; Drawing Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour". Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 36, No. 1, Contested Exhibitions (Fall, 2002), pp. 86–92. Publisher: The Johns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loci%20Controls | Loci Controls, Inc. is a developer of wireless sensor and actor network (WSAN) devices. Loci Controls develops hardware and software utilizing a wireless sensor network to optimize the extraction of methane from landfills through better landfill gas monitoring,
Background
The company was founded by two MIT graduates, Andrew Campanella and Melinda Hale in 2012. Loci Controls received a grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in the amount of $40,000 USD in January 2014 as a partial section of its Catalyst Program. The program invests in new researchers and companies.
Projects
On 4 August 2020, Peter Quigley, Chairman and CEO of Loci Controls Inc., reported the launch of three additional RNG ventures in Q2, culminating in dramatically expanded market share. One in Dane County, run by BIOFerm in Madison, Wisconsin, and two in Texas, one with Mas Energy on the landfill in Arlington, Texas.
Method
Loci's technology is designed for energy producing landfills, by harvesting potentially toxic methane gas from landfills and has shown to increase efficiency by 25% in at least one location. The software and hardware provides an advancement over the existing technology that requires on-site monitoring and adjustments to optimally extract the methane utilizing wireless sensor networks. "The Loci system offers tailored alerts, a custom algorithm that predicts needed adjustments to the gas collection system, and automatic controls to monitor gas production." The reduction in methane results in less pollution, toxins and odors.: With the Loci Controls solution, revenue from landfill gas-to-energy plants is increased, risk of noncompliance is mitigated, and odor complaints can be instantly addressed."
References
External links
A Q&A with Melinda Sims, CTO, Loci Controls
LMOP Partner Profile Loci Controls Inc.
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20European%20Regions%20Using%20Space%20Technologies | The Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies or NEREUS is an international non-profit association. It was created in April 2008 and established under Belgian law. Its registered office is in Brussels, Belgium. The objective of NEREUS is to explore the benefits of space technologies for the European Regions and their citizens, and contribute to spread their applications.
NEREUS is financially independent and only funded by the yearly membership fees of its members. There are two possible memberships: Full member (European Regions) and Associate Member (companies, universities and other organisations).
Full Members
The following European Regions are Full Members of NEREUS:
:
Walloon Region
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Aquitaine
Brittany
French Guiana
Midi-Pyrénées
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
:
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Brandenburg
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Hesse
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Abruzzo
Apulia
Basilicata
Lazio
Lombardia
Tuscany
Veneto
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Province of South Holland
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Mazowieckie Voivodeship
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Azores
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Andalusia
Region of Madrid
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East Midlands
Associate Members
The following organisations are Associate Members of NEREUS:
AIPAS - Associazione delle Imprese per le Attività Spaziali
Airbus Defence and Space
ALTEC S.p.A. - Advanced Logistics Technology Engineering Center
Compagnia Generale per lo Spazio CGS S.p.A.
CEREMA - Centre d’études et d’expertise sur les risques, l’environnement, la mobilité et l’aménagement
CNES - Centre national d'études spatiales
CVARG - Centro de Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos Geológicos
CISAS - Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali "Giuseppe Colombo"
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie du Gers
Cité de l'espace
CORILA - Consorzio per il coordinamento delle ricerche inerenti al sistema lagunare di Venezia
Consorzio TERN - Technologies for Earth Observation and Natural Risks
EDISOFT SA
EURAC - European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen
EUTELSAT
FADOT - Fundación Aragonesa para el Desarrollo de la Observación de la Tierra
FFG
GeoVille GmbH
GIS Bretagne Télédétection
IREA CNR U.O.S. Milano
Interbalkan Environment Center, i-BEC
Italian Cluster for Aerospace Technologies
Network della meccanica molfettese, NE.MO
OMP - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
Pôle Mer Bretagne
Politecnico di Milano B.E.S.T. Department
Politecnico di Torino
SAM - Società Aerospaziale Mediterranea
Selex Galileo
SES S.A.
AEIT - Asociación Española de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación
STAE Toulouse - Sciences et Technologies pour l'Aéronautique et l'Espace
Technapoli
Telespazio France
TéSA Laboratory
Thales Alenia Space
Toscana Spazio
T.R.E. s.r.l.
University of Turin
Working Groups
The Working Groups were created in March 2009. They include the main fields of cooperation of the NEREUS Political Charter and focus on the applications of several space-related concepts. The following Working Groups exist within NEREUS:
Earth Observation/Copernicus WG
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) WG
Telecommunication WG
Technologies from Space Exploration WG
Communicati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDR%20Computerclub | WDR Computerclub was the first television broadcast in West Germany of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) that dealt solely with the issues of computer and technology. It began its first broadcasting in 1981 under the name eff-eff, was later renamed to WDR Computerclub, and was hosted until 2003 by and .
The program had its focus on entertainment and information and the viewing public could also participate. During the show, curious and selfmade projects were presented. In the early days the show focused more on home computers, later the IBM PC and other personal computer moved closer to the center. Reference books were presented regurlary.
The show received generally positive reviews. After 22 years and 400 shows, it was cancelled being the oldest and most well-known show for computer and technology in German television. Various online petitions to preserve the show were started by a number of viewers. The last show was broadcast on 22 February 2003 on WDR.
See also
German television
Computer Chronicles
WDR paper computer
WDR 1-bit computer
References
External links
WDR's official website
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
1981 German television series debuts
2003 German television series endings
1980s German television series
1990s German television series
2000s German television series
German-language television shows
Das Erste original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%20and%20Dawe | Clarke and Dawe (also stylized as Clarke & Dawe) is an Australian news satire television program that originally aired on the Nine Network from 1989 to 1996 and later on ABC TV from 2000 until 2017. Almost all episodes feature comedians John Clarke and Bryan Dawe engaging in a mock interview, with Dawe playing the interviewer and Clarke playing the interviewee.
The program started out on ABC Radio in 1987, after Dawe, at the time head of the ABC radio comedy unit, had approached Clarke, who had previously written mock interviews as columns for The Times on Sunday, about bringing this type of comedy to radio. Clarke in turn asked Dawe if he could read the questions, finding Dawe had "a supernatural understanding of speech rhythm". Their first interviews featured Clarke as British royal Prince Charles and American actress Meryl Streep.
In February 1989, with the support of host Jana Wendt, Clarke and Dawe made its television debut as part of A Current Affair on the Nine Network, where the program would continue to air for eight years, until 1996. One of their episodes from this period, The Front Fell Off, featuring Clarke as Australian politician Bob Collins on the topic of a 1991 oil spill off the Australian coast, garnered widespread attention years later, when the video was circulated by some on the internet as real, eventually prompting fact-checking website Snopes to debunk it.
In 2000, the program re-emerged as part of the 7.30 Report on ABC-TV (later renamed ABC1 and ABC TV), where it remained in place when the 7.30 Report was replaced by 7.30 in 2011. In 2012, plans emerged to scrap the interview format and instead feature comedian Chas Licciardello, but the program ultimately remained. The last episode aired on 20 April 2017, after Clarke's death on 9 April, having been recorded on 5 April. The episode features Clarke as Richard Shinnery, a fictional consultant for Australia's National Broadband Network.
See also
The Gillies Report
The Games (Australian TV series)
References
External links
Official website
on YouTube
Nine Network original programming
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
1989 Australian television series debuts
1996 Australian television series endings
2000 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings
1980s Australian radio programs
1980s Australian comedy television series
1990s Australian comedy television series
2000s Australian comedy television series
2010s Australian comedy television series
English-language television shows
Australian comedy radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sridhar%20Ramaswamy | Sridhar Ramaswamy (born 1967) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is the cofounder and CEO of the startup company Neeva, an ad-free, privacy-focused search engine. He previously led Google’s $115 billion advertising division.
Early life and education
Ramaswamy was born in 1967 in Tamil Nadu, India. He attended IIT Madras and received a bachelor's degree in computer science. He immigrated to the United States in 1989 and received a master's degree and PhD in computer science from Brown University.
Career
After graduating from college, Ramaswamy researched database analytics for three years at Bell Labs and held similar positions at Lucent Technologies and Bell Communications Research. While working for E.piphany as a machine learning systems developer, Google began recruiting engineers from the company.
Ramaswany joined Google in 2003 to work on the back-end infrastructure of AdWords as a mid-level engineer. He worked his way up the company over the course of 15 years. In 2013, he was promoted to senior vice president of advertising and commerce at Google.
Ramaswamy left Google in 2018 to become a partner at venture capitalist firm Greylock Partners. In 2019, he created Neeva as an alternative to Google Search, after becoming disillusioned with the limitations of the ad-supported search model. Instead of ads, Ramaswamy planned a subscription-based model for Neeva. Neeva was launched in the US in 2021 and the next year in the UK, France, and Germany; Neeva was acquired by Snowflake Inc. in 2023.
Personal life
Ramaswamy lives in Cupertino, California, with his wife and two sons.
References
External links
Brown University alumni
Google employees
1967 births
Living people
American computer scientists
IIT Madras alumni
Businesspeople from Tamil Nadu
Indian emigrants to the United States
American people of Tamil descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMSON | SAMSON (Software for Adaptive Modeling and Simulation Of Nanosystems) is a computer software platform for molecular design being developed by OneAngstrom and previously by the NANO-D group at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA).
SAMSON has a modular architecture that makes it suitable for different domains of nanoscience, including material science, life science, and drug design.
SAMSON Elements
SAMSON Elements are modules for SAMSON, developed with the SAMSON software development kit (SDK). SAMSON Elements help users perform tasks in SAMSON, including building new models, performing calculations, running interactive or offline simulations, and visualizing and interpreting results.
SAMSON Elements may contain different class types, including for example:
Apps – generic classes with a graphical user interface that extend the functions of SAMSON
Editors – classes that receive user interaction events to provide editing functions (e.g., model generation, structure deformation, etc.)
Models – classes that describe properties of nanosystems (see below)
Parsers – classes that may parse files to add content to SAMSON's data graph (see below)
SAMSON Elements expose their functions to SAMSON and other Elements through an introspection mechanism, and may thus be integrated and pipelined.
Modeling and simulation
SAMSON represents nanosystems using five categories of models:
Structural models – describe geometry and topology
Visual models – provide graphical representations
Dynamical models – describe dynamical degrees of freedom
Interaction models – describe energies and forces
Property models – describe traits that do not enter in the first four model categories
Simulators (potentially interactive ones) are used to build physically-based models, and predict properties.
Data graph
All models and simulators are integrated into a hierarchical, layered structure that form the SAMSON data graph. SAMSON Elements interact with each other and with the data graph to perform modeling and simulation tasks. A signals and slots mechanism makes it possible for data graph nodes to send events when they are updated, which makes it possible to develop e.g., adaptive simulation algorithms.
Node specification language
SAMSON has a node specification language (NSL) that users may employ to select data graph nodes based on their properties. Example NSL expressions include:
Hydrogen – select all hydrogens (short version: H)
atom.chainID > 2 – select all atoms with a chain ID strictly larger than 2 (short version: a.ci > 2)
Carbon in node.selected – select all carbons in the current selection (short version: C in n.s)
bond.order > 1.5 – select all bonds with order strictly larger than 1.5 (short version: b.o > 1.5)
node.type backbone – select all backbone nodes (short version: n.t bb)
O in node.type sidechain – select all oxygens in sidechain nodes (short version: O in n.t sc)
"CA" within 5A of S – select all nod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealMassive | RealMassive is a commercial real estate marketplace and data provider with over 6 Billion Square Feet of coverage. The company's technology platform and software enable people to discover commercial real estate and access a standardized, up-to-date data set of available listings to analyze and evaluate commercial real estate market performance.
The free-to-list, free-to-search platform enables the industry to lease, sublease or buy commercial real estate across the United States.
RealMassive's data collection process enables the company to develop a comprehensive database of local listings that tracks activity in markets across the United States to monitor and analyze performance on a market-by-market level weekly.
This technology provides the commercial real estate industry with frequent updates and information on listing activity, allowing the community to adapt to market conditions in real-time.
History
RealMassive is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas. It was founded in May 2013 and has received funding from local investors. Investments totaled $4.6 million in October 2014.
Services
The company's technology platform allows the commercial real estate industry to add and search commercial real estate listings via an online marketplace. The company then provides access to real-time data generated from the marketplace to brokerages, developers, government entities, financial institutions, and others. As of January 1, 2019, the platform included data for over 6.1 billion square feet of space in 34 markets.
RealMassive's Commercial Real Estate Listing Marketplace is free to list and search for properties. Users can create an account for free to add and market their listing to an audience searching for office, land, retail, industrial, multifamily or co-working properties.
References
American real estate websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Footy%20Show%20%28AFL%29%20episodes | The Footy Show is a Logie Award winning Australian sports and variety entertainment television program, shown on the Nine Network and its affiliates.
The show, which is dedicated to the Australian Football League (AFL) and Australian rules football, made its debut on 24 March 1994. The show has won several Logies.
Originally hosted by Eddie McGuire, from its inception in 1994 to 2005, he was replaced in the 2006 season by Garry Lyon and James Brayshaw.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 22 (2015)
References
Lists of Australian non-fiction television series episodes
Television articles with incorrect naming style |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Work%20%28talk%20show%29 | Good Work is an American plastic surgery-themed talk show that premiered on April 14, 2015 on the E! cable network. Announced in March 2015, the one-hour roundtable television series features hosts RuPaul, Dr. Terry Dubrow and Sandra Vergara who discuss the "good work" and the "not so good work" of Hollywood celebrities regarding the quality of their plastic surgery.
Co-hosts
RuPaul, a television personality and actor, hosts the reality television show RuPaul's Drag Race;
Terry Dubrow, a plastic surgeon and television personality; known for his work on The Swan and Botched, and appearing on The Real Housewives of Orange County;
Sandra Vergara, an actress and a beauty expert.
Episodes
Broadcast
Good Work premiered on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in the United States on the E! cable network at 10/9pm ET/PT, following another plastic surgery-based series Botched, which also features Terry Dubrow. The talk show continued to air on Tuesday nights and concluded on May 19, 2015. The series is additionally broadcast on local versions of the network worldwide; in Australia, the series premiered on April 22, 2015, and on May 5, 2015 in the United Kingdom.
References
External links
2010s American television talk shows
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
E! original programming
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Television series by World of Wonder (company)
Television series about plastic surgery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20features%20removed%20in%20Windows%2010 | Windows 10 is a version of Windows NT and the successor of Windows 8.1. Some features of the operating system were removed in comparison to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, and further changes in features offered have occurred within subsequent feature updates to Windows 10. Following is a list of these.
Features removed in version 1507: (RTM)
Windows shell
The charms are removed, and replaced with the Action Center. In Windows Runtime apps, a menu button appears on the title bar that can be used to access the functions that previously required its usage.
Users are no longer able to synchronize Start menu layouts across all devices associated with a Microsoft account. A Microsoft developer justified the change by explaining that a user may have different applications they want to emphasize on each device that they use, rather than use the same configuration across each device. The ability to automatically install a Windows app across all devices associated with an account was also removed.
Dragging and dropping items from or within the start menu and the list of recent files (accessible from right click on a taskbar shortcut) is no longer possible.
System components
User control over Windows Updates is removed (except in enterprise versions). In earlier versions, users could opt for updates to be installed automatically, or to be notified so they could update as and when they wished, or not to be notified; and they could choose which updates to install, using information about the updates. Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise users may be configured by an administrator to defer updates, but only for a limited time. Under the Windows end-user license agreement, users consent to the automatic installation of all updates, features and drivers provided by the service, and implicitly consent "without any additional notice" to the possibility of features being modified or removed. The agreement also states, specifically for users of Windows 10 in Canada, that they may pause updates by disconnecting their device from the Internet.
Drivers for external (USB) floppy drives are no longer integrated and must be downloaded separately.
While all Windows 10 editions include fonts that provide broad language support, some fonts for Asian languages (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, etc.) are no longer included with the standard installation "to reduce the amount of disk space that Windows requires", but are available without charge as optional font packages. When software invokes text in languages other than those for which the system is configured and does not use the Windows font fallback mechanisms designed always to display legible glyphs, Windows displays unsupported characters as a default "not defined" glyph, a square or rectangular box, or a box with a dot, question mark or "x" inside.
The ability to create MS-DOS bootdisks has been removed. This means the last remnant of MS-DOS (aside from NTVDM in 32-bit editions) has been removed.
Media feature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena%20Familia | Buena Familia () is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Kylie Padilla and Julie Anne San Jose. It premiered on July 28, 2015, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Yagit. The series concluded on March 4, 2016, with a total of 159 episodes. It was replaced by Hanggang Makita Kang Muli in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The Buena family is wealthy and respected by society. When Arthur Buena's mistress comes back for revenge to Arthur and his family, she will succeed and change the lives of the Buena family. The Buena siblings will be separated, and Celine being the eldest will find a way to make them whole again.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kylie Padilla as Celine Buena / Rochel C. Buena
Julie Anne San Jose as Darlina "Darling" A. Buena
Supporting cast
Julian Trono as Edwin A. Buena
Mona Louise Rey as Faye A. Buena
Angelu de Leon as Bettina Agravante-Buena / Sally Rosales
Bobby Andrews as Arthur Buena
Sheryl Cruz as Josephine Carter
Jake Vargas as Kevin Acosta Vergara
Martin del Rosario as Harry Atendido
Jackie Rice as Iris Florencio
Ryza Cenon as Vaness Castro
Aicelle Santos as Olga Vergara
Mayton Eugenio as Lauren Villacor
Mel Kimura as Gloria Racaza
Lou Sison as Alexis Manuel
Tessie Tomas as Marissa Agravante
Guest cast
Pinky Amador as Sandra Atendido
Gerald Madrid as Marlon Abad
Dino Guevarra as Quentin Monsanto
Tess Bomb as Norma Sebastian
Arianne Bautista as Pamela
Gigi Locsin as Tonya
Diego Llorico as Enrico Perez / Birty
Kenneth Medrano as Pacoy Alvero
Via Antonio as Marga Varga
Vince Velasco as Tony Lopez
Dan Alvaro as Kenneth Vasquez
Marky Lopez as Utoy Velasco
Kristofer Martin as Zach Michaels
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Buena Familia earned a 14.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 15.5% rating.
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful%20Strangers%20%28TV%20series%29 | Beautiful Strangers is a 2015 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Albert Langitan, it stars Heart Evangelista and Lovi Poe. It premiered on August 10, 2015, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Let the Love Begin. The series concluded on November 27, 2015, with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Because of You in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The story revolves around Kristine and Joyce. Their lives intertwine when Kristine helps the homeless amnesiac Leah, which is Joyce who was sexually abused by Kristine's father. They become friends and will eventually find out the truth.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Heart Evangelista as Kristine de Jesus Castillo-Ilagan
Lovi Poe as Jocelyn "Joyce" Rodriguez-Castillo / Lea
Supporting cast
Christopher de Leon as Ronaldo Castillo
Dina Bonnevie as Alejandra Valdez-Castillo
Rocco Nacino as Noel Ilagan
Benjamin Alves as Lawrence "Lance" Castillo
Emilio Garcia as Nestor Ilagan
Kier Legaspi as Rigor Lacsamana
Ayen Munji-Laurel as Lourdes de Jesus
Lovely Rivero as Imelda Rodriguez
Renz Valerio as Jason Rodriguez
Mariel Pamintuan as Leslie de Jesus
Gabriel de Leon as Rex Buenaventura
Djanin Cruz as Hannah Mamaril
Dianne Medina as Monica Aragon
Nar Cabico as Shakira / Rodolfo Vicente
Divina Valencia as Salve Valdez
Rez Cortez as Mike Mamaril
Recurring cast
Gabby Eigenmann as Isagani Mendoza
Ervic Vijandre
Diva Montelaba as Georgia Lacsamana
Guest cast
Pen Medina as Andres Rodriguez
Toby Alejar
Rafa Siguion-Reyna
Ozu Ong
Bing Babao
Robbie Sy
Maimai Davao
Rina Reyes
Crispin Pineda
Mike Magat
Paolo Rivero
Luz Fernandez
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Beautiful Strangers earned a 21.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 21.7% rating. The series had its highest rating on September 10, 2015, with a 22.6% rating. For its entire run, it had an average rating of 19.78%.
Accolades
References
External links
2015 Philippine television series debuts
2015 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway%20Campaign | Midway Campaign is a computer wargame released by Avalon Hill in 1980. It is a text-based game written in BASIC.
Gameplay
The game reenacts the events between June 4 and June 7, 1942, during the Battle of Midway, which was the turning point for Allied Forces in the Pacific Theater.
Gameplay is turn-based with each turn representing one hour of the battle. Players control Task Force 16, comprising the Enterprise and Hornet aircraft carriers, and Task Force 17 comprising Yorktown, and Midway Island.
Each task force may be moved on a map in any direction by providing a direction in degrees. During each turn Consolidated PBY Catalinas scout out the location of the enemy task force comprising Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu.
Once a Task Force has been identified and are within range a strike group may be launched from neighboring ships. Planes are generally in three conditions throughout the game. They can be below deck (protected from enemy strikes), on deck arming for a strike, or in the air moving towards or away from a target. Fighters (F4F Wildcats or A6M Zero 'Zekes') can also be established in a combat air patrol (CAP) to protect their carrier.
The game ends when either sides carriers are all lost, or if one of the task forces leave the map.
Reception
Glenn Mai reviewed Midway Campaign in The Space Gamer No. 45. Mai commented that "Overall this is a very good game, and I highly recommend it for anyone who likes matching wits with the computer."
Reviews
PC Magazine (Dec, 1982)
Moves #56, p26
References
External links
Review in 80 Micro
1980 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Avalon Hill video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore PET games
Games about the Battle of Midway
VIC-20 games
DOS games
FM-7 games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 1940s
Video games set in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium%20%E2%80%93%20Twisting%20the%20Dragon%27s%20Tail | Uranium – Twisting the Dragon's Tail is a television documentary series about uranium, its history, and its uses. It was produced by Gene Pool Productions for PBS and SBS and premiered on both networks in late July and August 2015.
The series was conceived, created, written and directed by Wain Fimeri, was shot in nine countries and is presented by Derek Muller.
Episodes
Part 1: The Rock that Became a Bomb
Derek Muller introduces uranium and its use throughout history. Uranium, originally sourced from pitchblende, became the subject of intense scientific study. Using computer-generated dragons as a metaphor for daughter isotopes, the episode shows how uranium turns into lead in the process of radioactive decay. The harmful effects of radiation from radium, which is produced during the decay of uranium, are discussed. Derek shows what the first atom bomb looked like. The episode concludes with the use of uranium as a nuclear weapon and the bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
Part 2: The Rock that Changed the World
The use of uranium at the conclusion of World War II ushered in the atomic age. Uranium has since been utilized as a source of energy as well as in cancer treatment. Derek Muller visits Chernobyl and Fukushima, where major nuclear disasters have occurred. The proposition that in our energy-hungry, warming world, uranium both tempts with unbelievable power and threatens all life on earth is explored.
Part 3: The Rock in Our Future
The third episode, which was aired in Australia only, presents uranium as part of the mythology of indigenous peoples of Northern Australia, who say that a great creation spirit sleeps underground, and disturbing it will unleash disaster. This segues into the discussion of uranium mining in Australia.
Premiere
The series premiered on 6 August 2015, the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The SBS premiere in Australia occurred during a year-long inquiry into the possible expansion of nuclear industrialization in South Australia. The inquiry is known as the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission. A period for public submissions to the Commission closed in the week prior to the screening of the series.
Development and production
The series is produced by Sonya Pemberton and presented by Derek Muller. It is written and directed by Wain Fimeri. Sonya Pemberton began working with Cordell Jigsaw Productions under the new name Gene Pool Productions in September 2011. Previous Gene Pool productions have covered topics including palmistry, paternity, breasts, and vaccination.
The project was in produced over the course of 12 months in preparation for the seventieth anniversary of the detonation of Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan and the beginning of the atomic age. The project received investment from Film Victoria in March 2014. The project's treatment and presenter were taken to the Sunny Side of the Doc film festival and marketplace in France in 2014. The production team pitched |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20Wycombe%20Wanderers%20F.C.%20season | The 2015–16 season was Wycombe Wanderers' 129th season in existence and their 23rd consecutive season in the Football League.
League data
League table
Results summary
Results by round
Scores overview
Wycombe Wanderers' score given first.
Match details
Legend
Friendlies
League Two
The fixtures for the 2015–16 season were announced on 17 June 2015.
FA Cup
League Cup
Football League Trophy
Wycombe received a bye for the first round so entered the tournament in the second round.
Team details
Squad information
Loan player
Appearances and goals
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|colspan="14"|Players who left the club before the end of the season:
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Transfers
Transfers in
Transfers out
Loans in
Loans out
References
Wycombe Wanderers
Wycombe Wanderers F.C. seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private.Me | Private.me is a privacy platform designed to keep an individual's personal data private and secure. Using a patent pending system, Private.me has built a forgetful web service that allows its users to control who can access their private data. Personal data submitted to Private.me in searches is encrypted and distributed to nonprofit organisations located in different geographical regions.
Company Profile
Private.me uses a process to encrypt and distribute data to the Data Neutrality Administration, a network of privacy nonprofits that have been established with the mission of stewarding user data. This process is called the Dispersed Storage System (DSS). It is accessible via an API and will be offered as a privacy tool. The API requires explicit permission in order to recall a user's data.
The system keeps information inaccessible to any unauthorized entity, including Private.me.
History
Private.me is a data privacy and digital security company which provides web and software applications. It was founded in August 2014 by Standard Clouds, Inc. Private.me was incorporated in California and is headquartered in Los Angeles.
References
External links
American websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakde%20TV | Chakde TV is a Canadian exempt Category B Punjabi language specialty channel that is owned by Server Center Limited. It broadcasts entertainment and news programming in Punjabi. The station broadcasts from its studio in southwest Calgary. Approximately 70 to 80 percent of the station's content is produced in Canada.
References
External links
Companies based in Calgary
Punjabi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Reddit | This is a timeline of Reddit, an entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system.
Major events
Full timeline
References
Reddit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20HTML500 | The HTML500 is a multi-city Canadian technology conference that teaches 500 attendees per event the basics of HTML and CSS programming. Its goal is to promote web development and web programming literacy among Canadian youth, and open the doors for those who may be interested in pursuing careers in technology.
The HTML500 is Canada's largest educational technology event, having taught thousands of Canadians how to code since its inception. Its annual events are held in four Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto, London, and Calgary. Event sponsors include IBM, Telus (a Canadian telecom giant), the British Columbia Government's Innovation Council, and Microsoft.
History
The HTML500 was founded in 2013 by Canadian entrepreneurs Khurram Virani and Jeremy Shaki. Virani and Shaki are the co-founders of Lighthouse Labs, the largest Canadian web developer Coding Bootcamp . Lighthouse Labs acts as the official sponsor and parent company of the conferences. In an interview with BetaKit, Shaki said of the educational initiative, "It's about more people in Canada understanding the value of digital literacy. It's about trying to get our governments and other major Canadian institutions involved in the conversation."
In 2014, the event expanded to three additional Canadian cities: Calgary, Toronto, and London.
The second annual event in Vancouver had over 2500 applicants, of which the official 500 were selected through a lottery process. Over half of the attendees were women. Beginning with the second Vancouver event, the Vancouver Economic Commission began running a career fair in tandem with the day's activities to further provide career resources to aspiring web developers.
The multi-city events are routinely covered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television network.
Event activities
Each event is designed to host 500 attendees. In each city, 50 local technology companies are chosen to help participate by managing and providing teaching assistance at one of the event's 50 attendee roundtables. All the partners and local community members who participate in the event donate their time voluntarily, as the event is a not-for-profit, and there is no entry charge.
Each event begins with a keynote speech plus an educational crash course taught by a notable member of the Canadian technology industry. Attendees are then provided with reference materials to assist them in the second phase of the schedule: building a website from scratch. By the end of the seven-hour schedule, it is the conference's goal to have removed the attendees' intimidation associated with programming, and to give them the confidence and resources needed to continue their web development learning if they choose to do so.
References
External links
Official Site
Developer Awards
Recurring events established in 2013
Technology conferences
Business conferences
International conferences in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20H.%20Mann | Kenneth H. Mann (August 15, 1923 – January 24, 2010) received the first Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography in 1994.
Personal data
Born Kenneth Henry Mann in Dovercourt, England to parents Henry and Mabel (Ashby) Mann, Mann had two siblings: Eric (who died at age 3) and Margaret Needle. He married Isabel (Ness) in 1946 in Scotland, 63 years before he died. He had three children: Ian, Sheila and Colin.
He studied in Dovercourt and at age 11 he was awarded a scholarship to the local high school, but six years into that – due to World War II – he was evacuated to an inland village with his students. Since he had always loved to cycle, he used that to travel to his parents and grandparents, often covering 100 miles to get there. He also loved gardening, nature and classical music.
Mann was a longstanding active member of the Gurdjieff Society of Atlantic Canada.
Education
Mann started his teacher training course at St. Luke's College, Exeter, but again due to the war he was transferred in 1942 to Cheltenham to complete studies there. He completed a six-week summer school in electronics at Exeter University.
Mann had a B.Sc. (1949) and Ph.D. (1953) from the University of Reading and a D.Sc. from the University of London (1965).
Professional positions
Mann was an officer in the Air Force. In 1967 he took his family and emigrated to Canada, working at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO). He also held the position of Professor and Chairman of Biology at Dalhousie University between 1972 and 1980. Between 1980 and 1987 he was Director of the Marine Ecology Laboratory at BIO.
Acclaim
Throughout his life Mann mentored various post-doctoral students. According to one of them, Peter Wells, "he [Mann] was very kind to me as a young scientist working at the Marine Ecology Laboratory of Bedford Institute of Oceanography in the early 1980s, stopping to talk and showing interest in my research experiments on oil pollution. I helped him with marine management papers for one of his many books. His books are very well known and a real contribution to the field of marine ecology. What always impressed me about Ken was his huge ability to write such thoroughly researched syntheses of complex marine ecology topics, and his constant work ethic, being often in the Library at BIO for many years after official retirement. His dedication was an inspiration to those of us concerned about the health of marine ecosystems."
According to President John T. Lehman (who presented Mann his 1994 award at the 57th annual meeting of ASLO in Miami, FL), "as limnologists and oceanographers we owe Dr. Mann profound thanks for his prescient studies of freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems. Through more than 150 research publications and textbooks, he has enriched our knowledge of detrital food webs, decomposition processes, kelp bed ecology, fish production, coastal zone management, and energy flow in marine ecosystems."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20lithium%20production | This is a list of countries by lithium mine production from 2018 onwards.
Lithium Triangle state
See also
Lithium Triangle
Notes
References
External links
(Data in metric tons of lithium content unless otherwise noted)
Top Lithium-producing Countries Sep. 01, 2021
Lists of countries by mineral production
Lithium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunepics%20%28app%29 | Tunepics is a social networking service that lets the users share their own photos combined with a suitable soundtrack. The user chooses a photo to upload, and has a range of filters and other tools to choose from to edit the photo. Thereafter the user has the possibility to choose a soundtrack that gets played when the photo is shown. The purpose of combining the photos with music is to let the sound and image complement each other, to bring out something new from the photo and make it possible for the users to express themselves in a different way than in other social network applications. The music available comes from the Apple store and is an about 30 seconds long preview of the track.
When the photo is shared on Tunepics other users are able to like, retune (share), comment and spin the emotion wheel to select the emotion they think the photo is expressing. The emotion wheel consists of 16 rainbow-colored dots that represent the emotions love, hot, laughing, happy, moved, excited, jealous, singing, inspired, crying, dreaming, cool, sad, beautiful, dancing and heartbroken. These reactions from other users are shown as a kind of feedback on what they experienced from the uploaded picture and soundtrack.
History
The iOS application was created in 2014 by London-based Justin Cooke, the founder of innovation agency innovate7, who earlier worked as the marketing chief of Topshop and as a vice president of Burberry.
Tools
Like in many other social network sites Tunepics uses hashtags to help make the spreading of the photos wider. The users are also able to tag other users in their uploads, as well as tag where the photo was taken. If people like a soundtrack to an image they can push the button "buy on iTunes" and get redirected to the iTunes store.
The photo-editing options in Tunepics are a brightness and contrast-adjustor, ten different filters, four different pattern-filters and a crop/tilt-adjustor.
See also
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
Vine
References
1. Sedghi, A. (2014). Tunepics: the photo app that lets you add mood music from iTunes. The Guardian. Received from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/22/tunepics-instagram-app-justin-cooke-topshop-burberry
2. Butcher, M. (2014). New Tunepics social network is like Instagram with a soundtrack. TechCrunch. Received from https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/21/new-tunepics-social-network-is-like-instagram-with-a-soundtrack/
External links
Official website
British social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest%20Reference%20Connectome | The Budapest Reference Connectome server computes the frequently appearing anatomical brain connections of 418 healthy subjects. It has been prepared from diffusion MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project into a reference connectome (or brain graph), which can be downloaded in CSV and GraphML formats and visualized on the site in 3D.
Features
The Budapest Reference Connectome has 1015 nodes, corresponding to anatomically identified gray matter areas. The user can set numerous parameters and the resulting consensus connectome is readily visualized on the webpage. Users can zoom, rotate, and query the anatomical label of the nodes on the graphical component.
Background
Budapest Reference Connectome is a consensus graph of the brain graphs of 96 subjects in Version 2 and 418 subjects in Version 3. Only those edges are returned which are present in a given percentage of the subjects. Each of the selected edges has a certain weight in each of the graphs containing that edge, so these multiple weights are combined into a single weight, by taking either their mean (i.e., average) or median. The user interface allows the customization of these parameters: the user can select the minimum frequency of the edges returned. There is an option for viewing and comparing the female or male reference connectomes. The connectomes of women contain significantly more edges than those of men, and a larger portion of the edges in the connectomes of women run between the two hemispheres.
Discoveries
The Budapest Reference Connectome has led the researchers to the discovery of the Consensus Connectome Dynamics of the human brain graphs. The edges appeared in all of the brain graphs form a connected subgraph around the brainstem. By allowing gradually less frequent edges, this core subgraph grows continuously, as a shrub. The growth dynamics may reflect the individual brain development and provide an opportunity to direct some edges of the human consensus brain graph.
References
Computational neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroinformatics
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron%27s%20House%20Rules | Cameron's House Rules is a 2015 Canadian-American reality/comedy mini-series and a spin-off to Game of Homes, airing on the W Network, directed by Brent Hodge, produced by Hodge, Lauren Bercovitch and Chris Kelly and starring Cameron Mathison.
Premise
Before the premiere of his newest show Game of Homes premieres on the W Network, host Cameron Mathison challenges himself to convert his run down garage into an awesome family room in only five days. With nothing but his tool belt around his waist, his dog by his side, and his family cheering him on for support, Cameron pushes through his every to try and complete the challenge in only five days.
Episodes
Episode 1 - Demolition Man - On day one of the family room challenge, Cameron clears out his garage, takes a sledge hammer to the walls and changes the layout of the future family room in a single day.
Episode 2 - Help to the Rescue - With Cameron a little behind schedule, he's forced to call in reinforcements. Unknown to him, there's much more help coming than he ever could have imagined.
Episode 3 - School of Rock - It's sanding day in the Mathison home and Cameron is still behind schedule, not in the home renovation area, but in his personal life, as he races to see his son, Lucas, play in a concert with his band.
Episode 4 - Family Ties - The reinforcements are called in as Cameron recruits the help of his kids and his wife in painting and choosing the furniture and flooring.
Episode 5 - Judgment Day - The moments has arrived, as Cameron prepares to invite his family of judges in as he puts the finishing touches on the newly converted family room.
Production
The show was created and produced by Hodgee Films, the team behind 2014s award-winning documentary feature A Brony Tale. Filming took place over a week in Los Angeles, California.
References
W Network original programming
2015 Canadian television series debuts
2010s Canadian reality television series
Home renovation television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Millionaire%27s%20Wife%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Millionaire's Wife is a 2016 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Albert Langitan, it stars Andrea Torres in the title role. It premiered on March 14, 2016, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Destiny Rose. The series concluded on June 24, 2016, with a total of 72 episodes. It was replaced by Sa Piling ni Nanay in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Louisa Ignacio, a single mother who settles in a marriage for convenience with an older man. She vows to be a wife to him in exchange of giving her son who has diabetes. After she agrees to marry Fred, Louisa will face the consequences of her decision which involves her stepdaughter, her stepdaughter's children, her child and the father of her child.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Andrea Torres as Luisa Ignacio-Vergara / Meneses
Supporting cast
Mike Tan as Ivan Meneses
Robert Arevalo as Alfredo "Fredo" Vergara
Jaclyn Jose as Stella Vergara-Montecillo
Ina Raymundo as Allison Montecillo
Sid Lucero as Jared Montecillo
James Blanco as Mike Crisostomo
Rich Asuncion as Rosario "Rio" Samson
Guest cast
Mymy Davao as Susan Samson
Gilleth Sandico as Esme Meneses
Jhoana Marie Tan as Sheila Meneses
Luz Fernandez as Delia Cruz
Louise Bolton as Elaine
Denise Barbacena as Grace
Aaron Yanga as a nurse
Dave Roy Sotero as Rico
Rob Moya as Jared's friend
Billy James Renacia as Jared's friend
Ku Aquino as Robert
Arrly Enriquez as Ronron
Stephanie Sol as Georgia Samson
Justin Guevarra as Antonio "Anthony" Obras
Sanya Lopez as Lovely
Jade Lopez as Carla
Mayton Eugenio as Selena Buenaluz
Production
Principal photography commenced on February 26, 2016.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of The Millionaire's Wife earned a 14.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 19.2% rating.
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny%20TV | Tiny TV was a brand name used by Turner Broadcasting for a slate of international programming blocks that targeted preschool-age children. The block primarily aired on Cartoon Network in countries such as Australia, India, and Southeast Asia. Tiny TV also ran on Boomerang in Latin America (under the name Mini TV) and Southeast Asia, as well as on Pogo TV in India.
Programming
Australian feed
Cartoon Network
Dragon Tales
Little Red Tractor
Merlin the Magical Puppy
Postman Pat
The Secret World of Benjamin Bear
Boomerang
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
Baby Looney Tunes
Gerald McBoing-Boing
Ozie Boo
Postman Pat
The Secret World of Benjamin Bear
Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks
Little Red Tractor
Franklin
Indian feed
Cartoon Network
The Backyardigans
Barney & Friends
Bob the Builder
Boo!
Boohbah
Dragon Tales
Engie Benjy
Ethelbert the Tiger
Kipper
The Koala Brothers
Little Red Tractor
Make Way for Noddy
Miffy and Friends
Noddy's Toyland Adventures
Oswald
Pingu
Postman Pat
Rubbadubbers
Teletubbies
Thomas & Friends
Tweenies
Twipsy
Pogo
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Baby Looney Tunes
Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot
The Flintstone Kids
Postman Pat
Tom & Jerry Kids
The Secret World of Benjamin Bear
Latin American feed
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
Arthur (Arturo)
Animal Crackers
Bellflower Bunnies
Betty Toons
Care Bears (Los Cariñositos)
Cave Kids
Curious George (Jorge el Curioso)
Dive Olly Dive! (Olly el submarino)
Dragon
Faireez (Hadas)
Firehouse Tales
The Flintstone Kids (Los Pequeños Picapiedra)
The Forgotten Toys
Franklin
Franny's Feet (Los Pies Mágicos de Franny)
Garfield and Friends (Garfield y sus Amigos)
Hamtaro
Hello Kitty
Kangaroo Creek Gang
Kipper (Kipper el Perro)
The Land Before Time (La tierra antes del tiempo)
The Little Lulu Show (La Pequeña Lulú)
The Magic School Bus (El Autobús Mágico)
Maisy
Maya & Miguel (Maya y Miguel)
Max & Ruby (Max y Ruby)
Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks (Las Adventuras de Meteor)
Miffy and Friends (Miffy y sus amigos)
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
Mona The Vampire (Mona la Vampiro)
Pecola
Peppa Pig
Postcards from Buster (Los viajes de Bustelo)
Preston Pig
Pettson and Findus (Pettson y Findus)
Tom & Jerry Kids (Los Pequeños Tom y Jerry)
Tractor Tom (Tom, el tractor)
The Triplets (Las tres mellizas)
Southeast Asian feeds
Cartoon Network
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Baby Looney Tunes
The Flintstone Kids
Krypto the Superdog
Tom & Jerry Kids
Philippine feed
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Baby Looney Tunes
Bob the Builder
Care Bears
Firehouse Tales
The Flintstone Kids
Gordon the Garden Gnome
Krypto the Superdog
The Land Before Time
Lili's Island
The Little Lulu Show
Little People
Little Red Tractor
Oswald
Peep and the Big Wide World
Peppa Pig
Pingu
Postman Pat
Roary the Racing Car
Thomas & Friends
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20Clogg | Clifford Collier Clogg (October 16, 1949 – May 7, 1995) was an American sociologist, demographer, and statistician. He is best known for his contributions to population statistics, categorical data analysis, and latent class analysis.
Biography
Clogg was born in 1949 in Oberlin, Ohio. He earned a B.A. in sociology in 1971 from Ohio University, and continued his studies at the University of Chicago, where he earned an M.A. in sociology and an M.Sc. in statistics in 1974, and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1977. Starting in 1976 he served at the Pennsylvania State University faculty, rising to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Professor of Statistics.
He served as an editor of several journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Demography, Sociological Methodology, and the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics.
The Clifford C. Clogg Award of the Population Association of America, the Clifford Clogg Award of the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association, and the Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research are named in his honor.
Selected publications
Clogg, Clifford C. "Latent class models." Handbook of statistical modeling for the social and behavioral sciences. Springer US, 1995. 311-359.
Clogg, Clifford C., Eva Petkova, and Adamantios Haritou. "Statistical methods for comparing regression coefficients between models." American Journal of Sociology (1995): 1261-1293.
Clogg, Clifford C., and Leo A. Goodman. "Latent structure analysis of a set of multidimensional contingency tables." Journal of the American Statistical Association 79.388 (1984): 762-771.
Clogg, Clifford C. "Some models for the analysis of association in multiway cross-classifications having ordered categories." Journal of the American Statistical Association 77.380 (1982): 803-815.
Clogg, Clifford C., and Scott R. Eliason. "Some common problems in log-linear analysis." Sociological Methods & Research 16.1 (1987): 8-44.
Clogg, Clifford C. "Latent structure models of mobility." American Journal of Sociology (1981): 836-868.
Clogg, Clifford C. "Using association models in sociological research: Some examples." American Journal of Sociology (1982): 114-134.
References
External links
American sociologists
Ohio University alumni
American statisticians
American demographers
University of Chicago alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
1949 births
1995 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Schneider | Susan Lynn Schneider is an American philosopher and artificial intelligence expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship.
Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
Education
Schneider graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1993 with a B.A. (honors) in Economics. She then went to Rutgers University where she worked with Jerry Fodor, graduating with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2003.
Career
Schneider was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate professor of philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Connecticut.
She was the founding director of the group for AI, Mind and Society ("AIMS"). In addition she has done research at the Australian National University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and at the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University
At the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. she has held the Distinguished Scholar chair and the Baruch S. Blumburg NASA Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration and Technological innovation. In 2020, Schneider accepted the position of William F. Dietrich Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), jointly appointed to the FAU Brain Institute.
Philosophy of mind
Schneider writes about the philosophical nature of the mind and self, drawing on and addressing issues from philosophy of mind, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, ethics, metaphysics, and astrobiology. Topics include the nature of life, the nature of persons, what minds have in common with programs, radical brain enhancement, superintelligence, panpsychism, and emergent spacetime.
Artificial Intelligence
In her book Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Schneider discusses different theories of artificial intelligence (AI) and consciousness, and speculates about the ethical, philosophical, and scientific implications of AI for humanity. She argues that AI will inevitably change our understanding of intelligence, and may also change us in ways that we do not anticipate, intend, or desire. She advocates for a cautious and thoughtful approach to transhumanism. She emphasizes that people must make careful choices to ensure that sentient beings - whether human or android - flourish. Using AI technology to reshape the human brain or to build machine minds, will mean experimenting with "tools" that we do not understand how to use: the mind, the self, and consciousness. Schneider argues that failing to understand fundamental philosophical issues will jeopardize the beneficial use of AI and brain enhancement technology, and may lead to the suffering or death of conscious beings. To flourish, humans must address the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin%20Bina | Shirin Bina () is an Iranian theater, cinema and TV actress born on August 20, 1964 Marand, Iran.
Filmography
References
Shirin Bina in Internet database of Soureh Cinema
Shirin Bina in iFilm
Shirin Bina in IranAct
Shirin Bina in filcin
External links
Iranian film actresses
Living people
Iranian stage actresses
Iranian television actresses
People from Marand
1964 births
Islamic Azad University alumni
20th-century Iranian actresses
21st-century Iranian actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20on%20Lake%20Superior%20Geology | The Institute on Lake Superior Geology (ILSG) is a non-profit professional society that was founded in 1955 with the goal of providing a forum for exchange of geological ideas and scientific data and promoting better understanding of the geology of the Lake Superior region, which includes areas in the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin in the US and Ontario in Canada. The major activity of the institute is an annual meeting with geological field trips and technical presentations.
In addition to running an annual meeting, the ILSG actively supports student research through the Doug Duskin Student Paper awards and acknowledges the outstanding work of scientists through the Goldich medal which is presented in acknowledgement of outstanding contributions to the geology of the region.
As well as publishing field guides to the geology of the Lake Superior region, the ILSG provides a central resource for highlighting the research undertaken in the area.
References
External links
Institute on Lake Superior Geology - official site
Lake Superior
Geology of Michigan
Geology of Minnesota
Geology of Ontario
Geology of Wisconsin
Geology societies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Statistics%20and%20Census%20of%20Panama | The National Statistics and Census Institute (, INEC) is the Panamanian government agency responsible for the collection and processing of statistical data, such as census data.
External links
Official website
Demographics of Panama
Economy of Panama
Government of Panama
Panama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani%20Mexicans | There is a significant Roma population in Mexico, most being the descendants of past migrants. According to data collected by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography in 2000, they numbered 15,850, however, the total number is likely larger. In Mexico, they are commonly known as gitanos or rom.
History
The first Romani group in Mexico were the Spanish gitanos that arrived during the Colonial era.
Some of the mid-19th century migrants may have arrived to Mexico via Argentina.
In the late 19th and early 20th century migrants from Hungary, Poland and Russia began arriving. In 1931, after a substantial colony of these latter roma had settled, and following complaints of delinquency, the law was changed to prohibit further settlement in Mexico.
Culture
In the mid 1900s, Romani caravans were known for showing movies in rural towns (cine ambulante, traveling cinema).
Today, their economic activities mainly revolve around the sale of textiles, cars, trucks and jewelry and also the teaching of singing and dancing. As a result of adoption of Evangelical Protestantism, there has been an almost complete abandonment of fortune-telling as a profession among the Romani of Mexico City.
Notable individuals
Alfonso Mejia-Arias - musician, writer and politician
See also
La Lagunilla Market - popular with Romani merchants
Further reading
D. W. Pickett, "The Gypsies of Mexico", Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 1966
References
Mexican |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20M.%20Haas | Laura M. Haas is an American computer scientist noted for her research in database systems and
information integration. She is best known for creating systems and tools for the integration of heterogeneous data from diverse sources, including federated technology that virtualizes access to data, and mapping technology that enables non-programmers to specify how data should be integrated.
She led the Starburst project on extensible database systems, showing how diverse information could be integrated into a relational database. Her research was the foundation for IBM's DB2 LUW query processor. She was the overall architect for Garlic, a novel data federation system that provides integrated access to many data sources from a high-level nonprocedural language, and personally invented and implemented query optimization techniques that allowed Garlic to process queries efficiently, exploiting the capabilities of the underlying data sources. Haas led the development of IBM InfoSphere Federation Server based on this technology, and was the technical lead of the IBM team which helped establish the enterprise information integration market. Laura also led the Clio project, inventing the concept and basic algorithms for schema mapping, and embodying them in the first tool to compute necessary transformations to bring data from diverse sources into a common format automatically. She provided thought leadership and pursued research around information integration, most recently in the context of big data, through her role as the Director of IBM Research's Accelerated Discovery Lab.
Biography
Haas received an A.B. in applied mathematics and computer science from Harvard University in 1978. She received a Ph.D in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. In 1981, Haas began as a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center, and has spent her career at IBM Research (with a one-year visiting fellow position at University of Wisconsin in 1992–1993). She has held numerous positions within IBM Research, including as IBM Fellow and Director of IBM Research Accelerated Discovery Lab. She was appointed dean of the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in August 2017.
She is married to Peter J. Haas, also a longtime IBM Research member who moved with her to Amherst.
Awards
In 2006, Haas was named an ACM Fellow "for research leadership, and contributions to federated database systems".
In 2010, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for innovations in the design and implementation of systems for information integration".
In 2010, Haas received the ABIE Technical Leadership Award at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
In 2015 she became the winner of the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.
References
External links
IBM Profile: Laura Haas: —not accessible to the public
Laura Haas | IEEE Computer Society
American women computer scientists
Fe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Catorce | Canal Catorce (Channel 14, formerly known as Una Voz con Todos) is a national public television network of Mexico, operated by the Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR). It began operations in 2012 and is distributed via the SPR's national digital transmitter network, as well as on all cable and satellite providers. It is based in Mexico City.
History
The Organismo Promotor de Medios Audiovisuales, or OPMA, was the predecessor to the SPR. It was founded with the aim of extending the breadth and depth of public television in Mexico. Two national-level public television stations were already on the air — XEIPN-TV, established in 1959, and Canal 22, established as public/cultural in 1993 — but they were not available outside Mexico City except through pay television and select programs carried by the public television stations in the various states, as well as Canal Once's few existing retransmitters. Outside Mexico City, XEIPN had a national penetration of 28%, and XEIMT had 22% reach.
Furthermore, in 2005, the teveunam network (not to be confused with XHUNAM-TDT) owned by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) began its broadcast as a Pay TV-only channel.
On March 31, 2010, an official decree published in the Official Gazette of Mexico created OPMA. OPMA created a new public television channel, initially called Canal 30 TV México, to serve as its flagship programming source. Initially, OPMA's first transmitters outside Mexico City
The first four transmitters for the system began operations in 2010. The Mexico City transmitter, XHOPMA-TDT (now XHSPR-TDT) channel 30, launched on March 23, 2012. With this new transmitter, the Canal 30 network launched. The name was changed to Una Voz con Todos in 2012 to reflect that outside Mexico City, it was usually on other channel numbers.
In October 2016, all SPR transmitters were assigned virtual channel 14 for Una Voz con Todos; as a result, cable providers, who are required to carry the channel, placed it on channel 14. On November 13, 2017, the name of the channel was changed to Canal Catorce (Channel 14) to reflect its over-the-air and cable channel position.
Programming
Programming on Canal Catorce is largely of a cultural and educational nature with the aim of strengthening democratic values in Mexican society.
In 2019, the SPR and Canal Catorce for the first time took the lead in producing coverage of Independence Day events, which were aired on all Mexican television stations.
Sports
In January 2014, Una Voz con Todos acquired the rights to broadcast the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics through a contract made between SEGOB and América Móvil. Later that year, the SPR followed up by signing a deal with the same company to carry the 2014 Youth Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Una Voz Con Todos produced independent coverage of the event along with other public broadcasters. Since then Channel 14 thus has been serving as Mexico's principal home of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart%20Ford | Stewart Owen Ford (born 1964) is a British businessman, the founder and chief executive (CEO) of the failed financial company Keydata Investment Services. He was fined a record £76 million by the Financial Conduct Authority in January 2019.
Early life
Stewart Owen Ford was born in 1964. He lived in Edinburgh until he was 17.
Career
Ford studied printing in London when he was 20. Afterwards, he went back to Edinburgh and started in business for himself. He had a career as a printer, publisher and then a financial services entrepreneur.
On 26 May 2015, it was announced that Ford had been fined a record £75 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA fine is in connection with the alleged mis-selling of £475 million of "death bonds", wrongly encouraging buyers to believe that they were entitled to tax-free ISAs. Ford is counter-suing the FCA for £370 million, claiming that the closure of Keydata was "politically motivated", that the company was a "highly successful" one with nearly £3 billion of assets under management, and that his reputation had suffered "grievous and irreparable" harm.
According to Ford, the one-day Upper Tribunal case management hearing for his challenge to the FCA's decision to fine him £75 million has been set for 23 September 2015.
The decision of the Upper Tribunal was handed down on 6 November 2018 with Judge Berner finding for the Respondent (the FCA) and accepting their request to increase the fine to £76 million.
References
1964 births
Living people
British chief executives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetan%20Datar | Chetan Datar was a playwrighter based in India. His first play, Zulva (play), was based on Uttam Bandu Tupe's book Zulwa which was written about the Devadasi system. The play was well received and directed by Waman Kendre".
References
Indian male dramatists and playwrights |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEWS%20College%20of%20Management%20%26%20IT | MEWS College of Management & IT (abbreviated MEWS or MEWS College) established in Bhuj-Kutch of Gujarat (India) in 2012. It runs Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) courses. The college is managed by the Muslim Education & Welfare Society, which was established in 1964 and is the biggest Muslim educational organization in Kutch district. MEWS also runs a government recognized KG Section to High School (Gujarati & English Medium), Higher Secondary School (Gujarati Medium), MEWS Study Center and Hostel.
Campus
MEWS College campus is located at Bhuj, near Airport Road called "MEWS Educational Complex". The campus is on 16 acres of land which has cricket, football ground, and volleyball court. The campus also includes KG to High School Sections and Higher Secondary School.
References
Universities and colleges in Gujarat
Education in Kutch district
Bhuj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20abstractions%20%28computer%20science%29 | This list contains abstractions used in computer programming.
Notes
References
Abstraction
Programming language concepts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaf | Wikileaf Technologies is a Seattle business providing data services to the cannabis industry and information to consumers. The company provides price indexes and cannabis strain reviews and information.
Background
Wikileaf was founded in Seattle's South Lake Union area in 2014 by Dan Nelson, some months before adult use legalization in Washington state under Initiative 502. That Spring, it was also featured as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's Most Brilliant Business Ideas of 2014. By 2016, with seven employees, it was acquired by Nesta, a Canadian fund. The company provides an online resource for medical and recreational marijuana patients and consumers where users can compare marijuana dispensary prices and menus as well as research cannabis strains. Wikileaf displays menus and prices for recreational and medical dispensaries in eleven states. The company has been dubbed "The Priceline of Pot" although their price comparison model is a "reverse auction". Users specify how much they are going to spend on their next marijuana dispensary visit and, then, all the marijuana dispensaries within his/her radius put forth the most amount (in grams) they can at this price point.
Wikileaf was acquired by Nesta Holding Co. Ltd. on May 2, 2016 for an undisclosed sum. Nesta is private equity firm located in Ottawa, Canada working with partnerships and brands within the cannabis community. It was founded in 2015 by Chuck Rifici, co-founder and former CEO of Canopy Growth Corporation (formerly Tweed Marijuana Inc.).
In 2017, Wikileaf launched the first in-flight cannabis commercial to Virgin America. In 2018, the company cracked down on illegal dispensaries on their platform.
In 2019, Wikileaf raised $6.8 million in funding and announced their plans to open satellite offices in markets with high dispensary densities as well as newly legal states. Through a reverse takeover of an existing Canadian company, it became listed on the Canadian stock exchange in late 2019.
Business model
Wikileaf is currently providing dispensaries with free menu pages to showcase their products and prices. They plan to start offering companies that want increased exposure the opportunity to do so at a cost and will also have additional geo-targeted advertising opportunities for dispensaries looking to increase their exposure beyond their menu page.
Use
Cannabis consumers can use the site in three primary ways.
They can compare marijuana dispensary prices and menu's in their neighborhood.
They can leave reviews of their favorite marijuana dispensaries based on quality of product, customer service and ambiance of the establishment.
They can research cannabis strains based on recommended time of use (morning, afternoon, evening and night), Indica, Sativa or Hybrid. Once a strain is selected, an overview is provided as well as THC content, medical use, effects, and reviews.
Mobile usage
Wikileaf has launched its mobile app for Android on October 17, 2016 and for Apple on Nov 09 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERFnet | The California Education and Research Federation Network (CERFnet) is a mid-level network service provider based in California. CERFnet was one of the NSFNET regional networks and a co-founder of the Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX). The CERFnet network was founded in January 1988 by Susan Estrada of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), received partial funding of $2.8 million by the National Science Foundation a year later, and was fully operational by November 1989, linking together 38 California research centers. The network was operated by the SDSC and General Atomics.
References
1988 establishments in California
American companies established in 1988
Companies based in California
Internet properties established in 1988
Internet service providers of the United States
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