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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form%201099-K | In the United States, Form 1099-K "Payment Card and Third Party Network Transactions" is a variant of Form 1099 used to report payments received through reportable payment card transactions (such as debit, credit, or stored-value cards) and/or settlement of third-party payment network transactions. Form 1099-K is sent out to payees by a payment settlement entity (such as a bank) if the gross payments exceed $600. Reportable payment card transactions do not include ATM withdrawals or checks issued in connection with a payment card.
Examples of individuals who would receive Form 1099-K include freelancers compensated via PayPal, Etsy sellers, Uber drivers who accept credit cards as payment, small businesses who accept card transactions as payment, and in general professionals who accept online or credit card payments for services.
Motivation
In 2006, Americans underpaid their taxes by $450 billion, equal to a 17% tax noncompliance rate. In response, the IRS has pushed for more third party information reporting.
In the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, a new requirement was laid out for banks and credit card merchants to report payments to the IRS. This requirement took effect in 2011, and Form 1099-K was first issued in 2012. It uses third party information reporting (banks and credit card merchants) in order to increase tax compliance and improve IRS tax assessments. The new requirement specifically does much in the way of increasing tax compliance from independent contractors, especially with the increasing size of the so-called "1099 economy".
Filing
Payment settlement entities must send Form 1099-K to the IRS by the last day of February of the year following the relevant transactions, or if filing electronically, by April 1. Form 1099-K may be filed electronically through the Filing Information Returns Electronically (FIRE) system. If a payment settlement entity has more than 250 individual information returns to file in any calendar year, they all must be submitted electronically.
Relation to Form 1099-MISC
Form 1099-MISC is a variant of Form 1099 used to report miscellaneous income. One common use of Form 1099-MISC is to report payments by a business to US resident independent contractors. In this case Form 1099-MISC needs to be issued only when the total amount paid during the tax year is at least $600. However, the instructions for Form 1099-MISC include a provision that says payments made with payment cards and/or third party network transactions must be reported on Form 1099-K by the payment settlement entity, and that the payer does not need to issue a Form 1099-MISC in this case.
This provision creates a tax loophole. Before Form 1099-K existed, payment card transactions and/or settlement of third-party payment network transactions totaling at least $600 required the payer to file a Form 1099-MISC. However, with this provision, a party getting paid through payment card and/or third-party payment network transactions, s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20Star%20Kids | Food Network Star Kids is an American cooking competition television series that aired on Food Network, presented by actress Tia Mowry and food critic Donal Skehan. The series is a spin-off of Food Network Star.
Contestants
Winner
Amber Kelley – Seattle, Washington
Runners-up
Isaiah Hooks – Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Liam Waldman – Los Angeles, California
Eliminated
Nicholas Hornbostel – Vail, Colorado
Sydnie Jaye Meyers – Austin, Texas
Gracie Evans – Tampa, Florida
Sammy Voit – The Bronx, New York
Salvatore "Sal" Soldo – Staten Island, New York
Tyra Jefferson – Irmo, South Carolina
Alexa "Lexi" Shuster – Port Chester, New York
Contestant progress
(WINNER) The contestant won Food Network Star Kids.
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won the challenge for that week.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the judges' favorites in the challenge for that week.
(IN) The contestant performed sufficiently well to advance to the next week.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the judges' least favorites for that week, but advanced.
(OUT) The contestant was eliminated from the competition.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2016 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
American television spin-offs
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food Network Star
Reality television spin-offs
Television series about children
Television series about teenagers
Television series by Levity Live |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural%20decision | In software engineering and software architecture design, architectural decisions are design decisions that address architecturally significant requirements; they are perceived as hard to make and/or costly to change.
Characteristics
Architectural decisions influence and impact the non-functional characteristics of a system. Each architectural decision describes a concrete, architecturally significant design issue (a.k.a. design problem, decision required) for which several potential solutions (a.k.a. options, alternatives) exist. An architectural decision captures the result of a conscious, often collaborative option selection process and provides design rationale for the decision making outcome, e.g., by referencing one or more of the quality attributes addressed by the architectural decision and answering "why" questions about the design and option selection. Architectural decisions concern a software system as a whole, or one or more of the core components of such a system. Types of architectural decisions are the selection of architectural tactics and patterns, of integration technologies, and of middleware, as well as related implementation strategies and assets (both commercial products and open source projects).
Software architecture design is a wicked problem, therefore architectural decisions are difficult to get right. Often, no single optimal solution for any given set of architecture design problems exists. Architectural decision making is a core responsibility of software architects; additional motivation for/of the importance of architectural decisions as a first-class concept in software architecture can be found online.
History
Rationale was mentioned in an early definition of software architecture by Perry/Woolf, but not researched much until 2004, when a workshop on architectural decisions and Architectural Knowledge Management was held in Groningen, NL. Early publications can be traced back to this workshop,. From 2006 on, the architectural knowledge management and architectural decision research communities gained momentum and a number of papers was published at major software architecture conferences such as European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), Quality of Software Architecture (QoSA) and (Working) International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). A Springer book summarized the state of the art as of 2009, and a systematic mapping study from 2013 compiles and analyzes more and more recent research results.
In practice, the importance of making the correct decisions has always been recognized, for instance in software development processes such as OpenUP; many templates and practices for decision documentation exist. Seven of these templates are compared in. The most recent standard for architecture descriptions, ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 has a dedicated rationale entity, and gives detailed recommendations which architectural decisions to capture and which properties of an architectural decision to r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn%20Music%20Week | Tallinn Music Week (TMW) is an international new music showcase, city culture festival and networking event for music and creative industry professionals, held every spring in Tallinn, Estonia since 2009. Operated by Tallinn-based company Shiftworks OÜ, it showcases emerging artists from all over Europe and beyond, provides a networking platform for music and creative industry professionals, and introduces the city of Tallinn. The festival is attended by around 20,000 people and 1,000 music industry executives yearly. TMW has been acknowledged as an important industry event and attractive tourism destination by The Guardian, New York Times, Forbes, and Experty.by.
Festival programme
Music festival
TMW's music programme presents multi-genre line-up from 100 – 250 artists. The festival has been acknowledged for embracing and introducing new emerging talent from Estonia, Nordics, Russia and beyond with various genres from experimental electronica to neo-classical represented. TMW is also the partner festival of an international Keychange initiative which encourages festivals and music organisations to achieve a 50:50 gender balance by 2022.
TMW's line-up is selected from artist applications by a team of Estonian and international curators and presented to an audience of around 20,000 and 1,000 industry professionals.
TMW's strategic partner is the music industry development centre and export office Music Estonia (ME). The membership of both TMW and ME in the European talent exchange network ETEP has enabled at least two Estonian artists to perform at the acclaimed Eurosonic Noorderslag festival every year. The Songwriting Camp, launched in collaboration between TMW, ME and Estonian national Eurovision Song Contest selection Eesti Laul has fostered the collaboration of Estonian and international artists and producers. As part of the Finnish-Estonian export project Finest Sounds (2016 - 2019), several Estonian artists like Mari Kalkun, Peedu Kass and Talbot have been showcased in Japan, and Japanese music industry delegates have taken part in TMW seminars and workshops.
Among the Estonian acts who have performed at the festival and have won TMW's annual artist award (Skype Award 2009–2014, Wire Prize 2015, Telliskivi Creative City Award 2016, Telia & Telliskivi Award 2017–2018), are Popidiot (2009), Iiris (2010), Ewert and The Two Dragons (2011), Talbot (2012), Elephants From Neptune (2013), Odd Hugo (2014), Maarja Nuut (2015), I Wear* Experiment (2016), Mart Avi, Erki Pärnoja, NOËP (2017) and Mart Avi, Mari Kalkun, Holy Motors (2018).
Among the notable international acts who have performed at the festival are Vashti Bunyan (UK), C Duncan (UK), The Membranes (UK), Glen Matlock (UK), Eric Copeland (US), Kara-Lis Coverdale (CA), Motorama (RU), Shortparis (RU), Kate NV (RU), Kate Boy (SE), Rubik (FI), Kimmo Pohjonen (FI), Jaakko Eino Kalevi (FI), Liima (DK/FI), Kristjan Järvi (US), Yukon Blonde (CA), Sturle Dagsland (NO), Hauschka (DE), Alexande |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaject | In computer science, a quaject is an object-like data structure containing both data and code (or pointers to code), exposed as an interface in the form of callentries, and can accept a list of callentries to other quajects for callbacks and callouts. They were developed by Alexia Massalin in 1989 for the Synthesis kernel, and named for the Qua! Machine, a unique hardware platform built by Massalin. The origin of the term 'qua' is unclear; Massalin claims humorously that it is a sound made by koalas.
The main purpose of quajects is to provide an abstraction to manage self-modifying code, by allowing runtime code optimizing on a per-object basis. While the original Synthesis kernel required quajects to be written in hand-developed assembly language, this was done to avoid developing a complex compiler; Massalin noted that just-in-time compilation (JIT) for a high-level programming language that permits runtime code generation, as in Lisp or Smalltalk, can also apply this approach, though she also asserted that the complexity of such a compiler was likely to be prohibitive.
Quajects differ from more conventional objects in two key ways: first, they always use a form of the dependency injection pattern to manage both interfaces to other quajects, and continuations out of the quaject; the list of callentry references for this is part of quaject creation, and may be updated during the quaject's lifetime. Second, and more critically, a given quaject's set of methods can be unique to the specific quaject; methods for a type or class of quajects are stored as one or more templates, rather than as fixed code. While shared methods can be accessed through a common table of pointers, individual quajects can also have methods that are generated specifically to tailor the performance for that quaject's behavior.
References
Operating system technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpiner%20%28video%20game%29 | Alpiner is an action video game designed by Janet Srimushnam for the TI-99/4A home computer and published on cartridge by Texas Instruments in 1982. The player climbs six of the world's highest mountains while avoiding trees, animals, falling rocks, and landslides. The mountains in the game are Mount Hood, the Matterhorn, Mount Kenya, Mount McKinley, Mount Garmo, and Mount Everest. The Alpiner cartridge originally retailed for $39.95 (USD).
Gameplay
After selecting 1-2 players and moving past the main screen with the mountains and elevations the game begins. The player must climb the side of each mountain and make it to the summit in the allotted time.
Obstacles placed in the alpiner's way include falling rocks, wild animals, trees, and brush fires that they must avoid to continue up the mountain. In level 7 the avalanche obstacle is introduced, and in level 13, ice falls. Being hit by obstacles will result in sliding a variable distance down the mountain. If the alpiner slides all the way down the mountain, one of the lives are lost. Players receive an additional life every time they make it to the top of Mount Everest.
There are 18 levels in the game divided into 3 rounds. The player must climb each of the six mountains successfully to continue on to the next round.
Sound
The game can be played with or without the commentary or voices, but to play with them requires the use of the TI Solid State Speech Synthesizer. The voices and commentary help to warn of approaching obstacles and comment on your progress.
The music heard during gameplay is Anitra's Dance from Act IV of Peer Gynt by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. The music heard after reaching the top of Mount Everest is a fragment of the Suite No. 2, in D Major II - Alla Hornpipe; from Water Music, by German composer Georg Friedrich Händel.
Cheat
Pressing the keys "*#*" (in that exact sequence) on the game's title screen allows players to set their starting number of lives in the game, from 1 to 9 lives, and the level of difficulty, from 1 to 18. Enabling this cheat displays the word "Test" on the bottom left of the screen.
References
External links
Alpiner at TI-99/4A-Pedia
Alpiner at TI-99/4A Video Game House
Alpiner at Giant Bomb
Alpiner at Everything2
1982 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Texas Instruments games
TI-99/4A games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proshika | Proshika (Proshika Centre for Human Development) is a Bangladesh-based organization. It was founded in 1976 by Dr. Qazi Faruque Ahmed. Proshika promotes self-reliance among the poor through a network of local organizations. Major emphasis is placed on agriculture, forestry, health education, disaster management, advocacy, and literacy. 12 million have been trained by Proshika.
History
Dr. Qazi Faruque Ahmed established Proshika in 1977. Dr. Qazi Faruque Ahmed established Proshika to train and educate and increase social empowerment. Muhammad Yahiya, one of the founders of Proshika, later left the NGO to establish Centre for Development Innovation and Practices. The name comes from the Bengali words for training (proshikkhan), education (shikkha), and work (kaj). Its headquarters in Mirpur were designed by Mubasshar Hussain. The NGO had a 30-member general body which elects a nine-member governing body.
On 19 April 2004, Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Jubo Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, laid siege to Proshikha headquarters demanding that the government cancel their NGO registration. They were led S. A. Khaleque, the local member of parliament and Ahsanullah Hassan, Mirpur Ward six Commissioner. The next day workers of Proshika were arrested by law enforcement agents. Bangladesh Nationalist Party government, which had come to power in 2001 had restricted foreign donations to Proshika. Dr. Qazi Faruque Ahmed and David William Biswas of the NGO were arrested by Bangladesh Police in May 2004.
On 24 May 2009, Dr. Qazi Faruque Ahmed was replaced as chairman of Proshikha by the governing body and replaced with M. A. Wadud. The decision was upheld by the High Court of Bangladesh on 10 August.
Dr. Qazi Faruque Ahmed was sentenced to one month imprisonment in January 2018 for violating the 2009 High court verdict. He was told to had over the Proshika building in Mirpur to officials of Proshika and its new chairman advocate M. A. Wadud. Ahmed had taken over the office building of the NGO through force and hired thugs.
Empowerment through Law of the Common People organized a Human Rights school for law school students from Bangladesh, India, and Nepal at the Proshika HRDC, Koitta, Manikganj District.
References
Organizations established in 1976
Non-profit organisations based in Bangladesh
Economic development organizations
Microfinance organizations
Poverty-related organizations
Community development organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscape%20Data%20Services | Inscape is a provider of ACR services to Smart TV OEMs. The company was founded in 2009 as TV Interactive Systems later renamed Cognitive Media Networks Inc. On August 10, 2015, Vizio acquired Cognitive Media Networks and renamed it Inscape. In July 2016 Vizio announced Inscape will spin off and operate as a separate, privately owned company.
History
Inscape was founded in 2009 by Zeev Neumeier as TV Interactive Systems.
In 2012 the company raised $2.5 million in funding from Rogers Venture Partners, rebranded as Cognitive Networks, and hired Michael Collette as its CEO.
On August 28, 2013, LG announced its LivePlus interactive service powered by Cognitive Network ACR. LG subsequently partnered with Showtime Network to launch in-program interactivity using Cognitive Network ACR.
On August 10, 2015, Vizio acquired Cognitive Networks and renamed it Inscape
In July 2016 Vizio announced Inscape will spin off and operate as a separate, privately owned company with past Vizio CEO William Wang as new CEO.
On November 9, 2015, privacy advocate Julia Angwin exposed the Inscape technology within Vizio televisions in an investigative piece for Pro Publica.
Technology journals like Ars Technica investigated the matter and found that not only was Vizio observing its customers viewing behavior, it was quite easy for its software to be hacked and observed by third parties. Shortly after these reports, both Vizio and its subsidiary Inscape Data Services were named in numerous class action lawsuits for violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
References
Companies based in San Francisco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FarmBot | FarmBot is an open source precision agriculture CNC farming project consisting of a Cartesian coordinate robot farming machine, software and documentation including a farming data repository. The project aims to "Create an open and accessible technology aiding everyone to grow food and to grow food for everyone."
History
The FarmBot project was started in 2011 by American Rory Aronson whilst studying mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University. Aronson attended an elective course in organic agriculture where he learned about a tractor that used machine vision to detect and cover weeds which removed the need for herbicides or manual labour, the tractor cost over US$1 million.
In March 2014 Aronson began working on the project full-time funded by a grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation. Firmware developer Tim Evers and software developer Rick Carlino later joined the project as core developers. Rory Aronson created the company Farmbot.io to provide hardware kits and software services and to serve as a funding source to maintain the open source community.
In 2014 and 2015, FarmBot was entered into the Hackaday Prize, where it became a finalist in 2015. After nine design iterations, the Farmbot Genesis began preorders in July 2016 as the first commercially available version of FarmBot.
Farmbot Genesis
Capabilities
The FarmBot Genesis is able to plant over 30 different crops within the same area at the same time and is able to operate indoors, outdoors and in covered areas. It can perform almost all processes prior to harvesting including sowing, mechanical weed control and watering while accounting for factors such as age of the plant and local weather conditions.
FarmBot Genesis is controlled through a web based interface allowing remote access from any location on most internet enabled devices. It uses an online crop database called OpenFarm to create an optimal planting plan based on the size of the adult crop.
Components
The Farmbot Genesis is an open source hardware machine and is designed around reproduce-ability and availability of components, it can be created using common tools and processes. Its electronics stack consists of a Raspberry Pi 3 and Arduino Mega 2560 with a RAMPS 1.4 shield and a camera to record data. The universal tool mount and other tools are 3D printed and are designed to be created with hobby level fused deposition model 3D printers e.g. a RepRap printer. It has two electrical connections and connectors for liquid or gas which are magnetically coupled.
The software for the FarmBot Genesis runs through a web interface allowing the machine to be controlled on most internet enabled devices. All software is available under the MIT license and is available on GitHub.
See also
Open Source Ecology
RepRap project
References
External links
Official product website
FarmBot Project community website
FarmBot Github repository
Open hardware electronic devices
DIY culture
3D printing
Engin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisto | Artisto is a video processing application with art and movie effects filters based on neural network algorithms created in 2016 by Mail.ru Group machine learning specialists.
At the moment the application can process videos up to 10 seconds long and offers users 21 filters, including those based on the works of famous artists (e.g. Blue Dream — Pablo Picasso), theme-based (Rio-2016 — related to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro) and others. The app works with both pre-recorded videos and videos recorded with the application.
History
Information on the application first appeared on Mail.ru Group Vice President Anna Artamonova's FB page on July 29, 2016. At the moment of posting there was only an Android version available. According to Anna, the application's first version only took eight days to develop. On July 31, the application was added to the AppStore for free download.
From this moment and continuing into the present, Artisto has been the world's first app that uses neural networks for editing short videos, processing them in the style of famous artworks or any other source image. Prisma (app) application developers promise to deliver similar functionality at any moment.
The application soon won recognition and started to attract the attention of both international brands (e.g. Korean auto manufacturer Kia Motors) and popular singers and musicians.
According to the independent App Annie analysis system, within the first two weeks on the market the application made it onto the TOP download lists in nine countries.
Technology
The idea of transferring styles from works of famous artists to images was first mentioned in September 2015 after the publication of Leon Gatys's article "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style", where he described the algorithm in detail. The major shortcoming of this algorithm is its slow performance, which is up to dozens of seconds depending on the algorithm's settings.
In March 2016, Russian researcher Dmitry Ulyanov's article was published, where he invented a way to improve the generation of stylized pictures using additional neuron generator network training. With this approach, stylized images can be generated within just dozens of milliseconds. Seventeen days after Ulyanov's article, Justin Johnson published an article containing an identical idea, the only difference being the structure of the generator network.
The Artisto application was developed using these open-source technologies, which Mail.ru Group's machine learning specialists improved for faster video processing and better quality.
References
External links
2016 software
Mobile software
Video software
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Applications of artificial intelligence
Artificial neural networks
Companies based in Moscow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity%20leave%20and%20the%20Organisation%20for%20Economic%20Co-operation%20and%20Development | The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development provides data about OECD countries related to paid parental leave length, average pay rate and full-rate equivalent. Not all countries provide mothers with a pay rate equal to what they would have received if the absence had not occurred.
Rate of basic pay can be defined as fixed pay received through minimum wage law or an administratively-determined wage. Organizations and activists are working to inform, persuade and change pay-rate laws. Women in the workforce are at a disadvantage; regardless of legislation, a global gender pay gap is still visible. The OECD is a primary supplier of research and data pertaining to parental-leave rights.
Background
Parental leave, or family leave, is an employee benefit available in almost all countries. The term "parental leave" may include maternity, paternity, and adoption leave; or may be used distinctively from "maternity leave" and "paternity leave" to describe separate family leave available to either parent to care for small children. In some countries and jurisdictions, "family leave" also includes leave provided to care for ill family members. Often, the minimum benefits and eligibility requirements are stipulated by law.
Unpaid parental or family leave is provided when an employer is required to hold an employee's job while that employee is taking leave. Paid parental or family leave provides paid time off work to care for or make arrangements for the welfare of a child or dependent family member. The three most common models of funding are government-mandated social insurance/social security (where employees, employers, or taxpayers in general contribute to a specific public fund), employer liability (where the employer must pay the employee for the length of leave), and mixed policies that combine both social security and employer liability.
Parental leave has been available as a legal right and/or governmental program for many years, in one form or another. In 2014, the International Labour Organization reviewed parental leave policies in 185 countries and territories, and found that all countries except Papua New Guinea have laws mandating some form of parental leave. A different study showed that of 186 countries examined, 96% offered some pay to mothers during leave, but only 44% of those countries offered the same for fathers. The United States, Suriname, Papua New Guinea, and a few island countries in the Pacific Ocean are the only countries in the United Nations that do not require employers to provide paid time off for new parents. Private employers sometimes provide either or both unpaid and paid parental leave outside of or in addition to any legal mandate.
Research has linked paid parental leave to better health outcomes for children, as well as mothers.
By country
For policies in different countries, see Parental_leave#By_country (note: in many countries there are different types of leave: for example, maternity leave, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes%20of%20the%20Beholder | "Eyes of the Beholder" is the 10th episode of season 3 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 54th episode overall, which premiered on January 10, 2014, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Thomas Ian Griffith, and was directed by Peter Werner.
Plot
Opening quote: "I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me, for I am much ashamed of my exchange."
Juliette’s (Bitsie Tulloch) college roommate, Alicia (Alicia Lagano), leaves her abusive boyfriend, Joe (Tom Walton), and stays with Nick (David Giuntoli) and Juliette; none of them realize Joe is stalking her. While she is there, Nick realizes that Alicia is a Fuchsbau and tells Juliette. Juliette communicates to Alicia that she knows about the world of Wesen and that Alicia does not need to hide it from her, but Alicia denies knowing what Juliette is talking about.
Meanwhile, Nick and Hank (Russell Hornsby) investigate what seems to be a Wesen gang murder, with only one witness, Jared Ellis (Dalpre Grayer), who is the teenage brother of Hank’s physical therapist, Zuri, (Sharon Leal). The men who murdered the gang member discuss whether they should take care of the kid who saw them, but realize that Jared’s girlfriend was the waitress at the diner where the murder took place, so they decide to use her instead.
When Hank and Nick talk with the murder victim’s girlfriend in the hospital, she refuses to talk with them, until she woges and realizes that Nick is a Grimm, and he tells her that he is there as a cop, but can come back as a Grimm, if she doesn’t help them. She tells them that it was another gang, and Nick and Hank go to ask Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) about the presence of Wesen street gangs. He knows nothing of them, but Rosalee (Bree Turner) does, as she used to buy drugs from them in her “dark period.”
Nick and Hank follow a lead from a red light camera that leads them to the car of Hank’s physical therapist, and they take her brother Jared into custody. When they talk to him, he is clearly terrified and refuses to talk to them, but the men stalk and grab Jared’s girlfriend, Joy (Meredith Adelaide). The gang members arrive at Jared’s apartment, but Zuri is on the phone with Hank and she cries for help. Zuri and Jared identify the men who came to the apartment, and are put into a safe house.
Juliette goes to talk with Rosalee about her concern that Alicia is not acknowledging what she is. Rosalee confides that Juliette doesn’t realize how special she, Nick, and Hank are that they do not judge “or want to cut our heads off.” Rosalee adds that she tried to hide what she was for a long time, as she was dealing with it. The next day as Alicia tells them that she has found a new apartment, Juliette tells her that Nick is a Grimm. She freaks out and as Nick is calming her down, Joe arrives and knocks Nick out and tries to drag Alicia away. Juliette beats Joe, and when Nick comes around and re-enters the fray, Joe says “You are a Grimm; don’t kill me.” To w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBOR | Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a binary data serialization format loosely based on JSON authored by C. Bormann. Like JSON it allows the transmission of data objects that contain name–value pairs, but in a more concise manner. This increases processing and transfer speeds at the cost of human readability. It is defined in IETF .
Amongst other uses, it is the recommended data serialization layer for the CoAP Internet of Things protocol suite and the data format on which COSE messages are based. It is also used in the Client-to-Authenticator Protocol (CTAP) within the scope of the FIDO2 project.
CBOR was inspired by MessagePack, which was developed and promoted by Sadayuki Furuhashi. CBOR extended MessagePack, particularly by allowing to distinguish text strings from byte strings, which was implemented in 2013 in MessagePack.
Specification of the CBOR encoding
CBOR encoded data is seen as a stream of data items. Each data item consists of a header byte containing a 3-bit type and 5-bit short count. This is followed by an optional extended count (if the short count is in the range 24–27), and an optional payload.
For types 0, 1, and 7, there is no payload; the count is the value. For types 2 (byte string) and 3 (text string), the count is the length of the payload. For types 4 (array) and 5 (map), the count is the number of items (pairs) in the payload. For type 6 (tag), the payload is a single item and the count is a numeric tag number which describes the enclosed item.
Major type and count handling in each data item
Each data item's behaviour is defined by the major type and count.
The major type is used for selecting the main behaviour or type of each data item.
The 5-bit short count field encodes counts 0–23 directly. Short counts of 24–27 indicate the count value is in a following 8, 16, 32 or 64-bit extended count field. Values 28–30 are not assigned and must not be used.
Types are divided into "atomic" types 0–1 and 6–7, for which the count field encodes the value directly, and non-atomic types 2–5, for which the count field encodes the size of the following payload field.
A short count of 31 is used with non-atomic types 2–5 to indicate an indefinite length; the payload is the following items until a "break" marker byte of 255 (type=7, short count=31). A short count of 31 is not permitted with the other atomic types 0, 1 or 6.
Type 6 (tag) is unusual in that its count field encodes a value directly, but also has a payload field (which always consists of a single item).
Extended counts, and all multi-byte values, are encoded in network (big-endian) byte order.
CBOR data item field encoding
Tiny Field Encoding
Short Field Encoding
Long Field Encoding
Integers (types 0 and 1)
For integers, the count field is the value; there is no payload. Type 0 encodes positive or unsigned integers, with values up to 264−1. Type 1 encodes negative integers, with a value of −1−count, for values from −264 to −1.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy%20Homes%20TV | Healthy Homes Australia is an Australian lifestyle television series aired for its debut on Network Ten on 24 January 2015 every Saturday for 13 episodes. In 2019 season 8 will broadcast. It is presented by Walt Collins and Dani Wales. The series is based around home, garden, building and construction and enjoys solid ratings. The program airs on Saturday afternoons at 2pm and is repeated on Sunday for an encore broadcast.
References
Network 10 original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
2015 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20candidata | La candidata is a Mexican telenovela produced by Giselle González for Televisa. It is an original story about the world of politics. A total of 60 episodes have been confirmed so far.
La Candidata was well received by critics, with its divergence in tone from previous telenovelas and the addressing of topics, such as political corruption, being particularly praised. It won eight awards at the 35th TVyNovelas Awards, including Best Telenovela of the Year.
Plot
Like many women, Regina struggles every day for the welfare of her family, having to cope from the worn relationship with her husband to the rebellion of her young son ... but in her case everything is in sight, because she is the wife of Head of Government of the city and, as if that were not enough, an honorable senator, who always tries to do what is best for her fellow men.
In the world of politics, a world where men build power at any cost, is Regina, who strives to improve the reality of people and impose ideals over power.
When Alonso, her husband, decides to run for the presidential candidacy, he shows his true face: ferocious, violent and perverse. He is capable of destroying any political adversary without measuring the consequences, without realizing that he is transforming his best ally, the companion that took him to the most important place of his career, is his main adversary. When Regina is forced to confront her husband, Gerardo, with whom she had a relationship in college, reappears in her life. He is not only the main political rival of Alonso and the man who disputed the presidential chair, but also the one that will try to regain her love. Regina, realizing that her perfect life alongside Alonso, whom she always believed she was in love with and had a child with, is now full of lies and betrayals; and she decides to leave him.
The publication of all the secrets, deceptions, and corrupt actions of Alonso confirm to Regina that her decision was the correct one. She knows that in order to avoid disaster, she must destroy Alonso's whole world and transform his own reality to impose himself in a world full of corruption.
Fate will then lead her to discover that her way is related to politics, but next to an honest man, who supports her unconditionally, even leaving aside his own political ambitions, a man who is there to push and support her ... even when she becomes the candidate.
It is no longer just a political struggle, it is a struggle to defend and change not only Regina's own destiny, but that of an entire country.
Cast
Main
Silvia Navarro as Regina Bárcenas
Víctor González as Gerardo Martínez
Rafael Sánchez Navarro as Alonso San Román
Susana González as Cecilia Aguilar
Secondary
Nailea Norvind as Teresa Rivera
Ari Telch as Ignacio
Helena Rojo as Natalia de San Román
Patricio Castillo as Omar San Román
Luz María Jerez as Noemí
Juan Carlos Barreto as Mario Bárcenas
Juan Carlos Colombo as Morales
Verónica Langer as Magda
Adalberto Parra as Mauro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabea%20TV | Rabea TV (), also called the revolution channel, is a Muslim Brotherhood oppositional satellite TV network that broadcasts its stream from Turkey, but targets Egyptian viewers.
Background
The name of the network, Rabea, means the fourth, which is why its logo features a hand holding up four fingers. The name derives from a mosque and square in Cairo, where some of the largest groups of Muslim Brotherhood supporters would meet and protest. At one point there was a sit in there that lasted forty days before being dispersed. This sign symbolizes solidarity for those protestors during the anti-coup movement for the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi. Many today see this as a terrorist sign, especially considering the fact that the Egyptian government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization in 2013. Allegedly, the first person to physically display this slogan was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The network, established by the Muslim Brotherhood, launched in 2013 in Turkey. Rabea TV announced in 2013 that it would begin broadcasting with the support of the Turkish State. According to local Egyptian media, Turkey"s National Security Service (MIT) founded the network under the leadership of Hakan Fidan, MIT's undersecretary of the intelligence service. In early talks about Rabea TV, a spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood during Morsi's presidency indicated his fears that this channel's establishment could lead to a new crisis in Egyptian-Turkish relations. Turkish politician Faruk Logoglu expressed similar sentiments when he stated that Turkey's hosting of networks that terrorize the Egyptian people and threaten foreigners has placed Turkey in a questionable position in international platforms.
Al Rabea TV broadcasts from Istanbul, and its content is known to have an Islamist slant and pushes Muslim Brotherhood propaganda. It uses the slogan, "The Pulse of Freedom" as self-promotion. Despite Rabea TV being aired from Turkey, Turkish government has denied that any Muslim Brotherhood affiliate TV stations are being broadcast from Turkey.
Controversial content
The network has aired its fair share of aggressive and violent content, and is known to incite public opinion on violence towards state, military, and civil institutions. On air, a cleric named Salama Abd al-Qawi issued a statement of encouragement for anyone who would assassinate Egyptian President Abdel Fatteh al-Sisi stating that whoever got the job done would be doing a good deed.
Also, on one of Rabea TV's programs, a threatening warning statement was broadcast from a group called the Revolutionary Group Leadership, telling Westerners and Western investments in Egypt to leave the country or they would be targeted soon. The station also aired content that police and soldiers in attendance of a western economic conference that was to take place in Cairo would be killed.
Followers
The network has YouTube and Facebook pages. Its YouTube page, founded in 2015 and featuring b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Attack%20%28video%20game%29 | The Attack is a multidirectional shooter video game created, designed, and implemented by Jim Pettingell for the TI-99/4A home computer and published by Texas Instruments in 1981. The game was developed at Milton Bradley as Alien Attack, inspired by the movies Alien (1979) and Barbarella (1968). After being sold to TI, the name was changed to The Attack.
Gameplay
The player flies a spaceship in four directions around a single screen, shooting "spores", which connect together to form new aliens, and already formed aliens before they eat the player. Incubators, shown as square boxes, release more spores or, in later levels, aliens.
There are four skill levels: Novice, Intermediate, Master, and Pro.
Reception
See also
Alien (Atari 2600)
References
External links
The Attack at TI-99/4A-Pedia
Gameplay video at YouTube
1981 video games
Multidirectional shooters
Texas Instruments games
TI-99/4A games
Video games about extraterrestrial life
Video games developed in the United States
Milton Bradley Company video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Elena%20of%20Avalor%20episodes | Elena of Avalor is an American computer-animated adventure television series that premiered on Disney Channel on July 22, 2016, and moved to Disney Junior on July 14, 2018. The series features Aimee Carrero as the voice of Elena, a teenage Latina princess.
The series finale aired on August 23, 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2016–17)
Season 2 (2017–19)
Season 3 (2019–20)
Note: Starting with this season like the other Disney Junior shows from the time, episode title cards have been discontinued, but the titles are still spoken.
Shorts
Adventures in Vallestrella (2017)
A short-form series titled Elena of Avalor: Adventures in Vallestrella premiered on Disney Junior on October 14, 2017, starring Elena and Isabel as they help baby Jaquins in Vallestrella.
Scepter Training with Zuzo (2018)
A second short-form series debuted on Disney Junior on February 24, 2018. It involves Zuzo, Elena's animal spirit guide, training her to properly use and strengthen the strong powers of her Scepter of Light.
The Secret Life of Sirenas (2018)
A third short-form series entitled The Secret Life of Sirenas follows the movie Song of the Sirenas, which features the Sirenas in their day-to-day lives. It debuted on Disney Junior on September 21, 2018.
Discovering the Magic Within (2019)
A fourth short-form series entitled Discovering the Magic Within follows the special The Magic Within, which features Princess Elena and her family and friends dealing with her newly strengthened magical abilities. It debuted on Disney Junior on October 13, 2019.
See also
Elena and the Secret of Avalor, a crossover television film with Sofia the First, which premiered on November 20, 2016.
References
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Disney Channel television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20paradigm | An algorithmic paradigm or algorithm design paradigm is a generic model or framework which underlies the design of a class of algorithms. An algorithmic paradigm is an abstraction higher than the notion of an algorithm, just as an algorithm is an abstraction higher than a computer program.
List of well-known paradigms
General
Backtracking
Branch and bound
Brute-force search
Divide and conquer
Dynamic programming
Greedy algorithm
Recursion
Prune and search
Parameterized complexity
Kernelization
Iterative compression
Computational geometry
Sweep line algorithms
Rotating calipers
Randomized incremental construction
References
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2023%29 | Season twenty-three of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 12, 2016, on the ABC network.
On November 22, 2016, Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and Valentin Chmerkovskiy were announced the winners, while IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe and Sharna Burgess finished in second place, and Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson Jr. and Lindsay Arnold finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured thirteen celebrity contestants. The first eight professional dancers were revealed on Good Morning America on August 23, 2016: Lindsay Arnold, Sharna Burgess, Witney Carson, Artem Chigvintsev, Val Chmerkovskiy, Sasha Farber, Allison Holker, and Gleb Savchenko. The other returning dancers were later announced: Emma Slater, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Derek Hough, and Cheryl Burke. Jenna Johnson was the only new pro this season, having previously been a member of the troupe.
The full cast was revealed on August 30, 2016, on Good Morning America.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, and Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. On August 26, 2016, it was reported that Julianne Hough would return to the show as a judge following a hiatus. Due to a personal tragedy, Erin Andrews took a week off from her co-hosting duties and former pro Kym Johnson-Herjavec filled in during the results show in week 3. On October 17, Pitbull took over Len Goodman's position as a guest judge for week 6. On November 7, Idina Menzel took over for Goodman as a guest judge for week 9.
Dance troupe
The troupe consisted of returning members Alan Bersten, Brittany Cherry, Hayley Erbert, and Dennis Jauch, joined by former pro Keo Motsepe and new member Britt Stewart.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Couples are listed in the order they performed. After Ryan & Cheryl's performance, two protesters were arrested for rushing to the stage and shouting at Lochte.
Week 2: TV Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to famous TV theme songs, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: Face-off Night
The couples were paired off into six sets, and each set of couples performed the same dance to different songs. The highest-scoring couple from each set won immunity and could not be eliminated. Any ties were broken by Len Goodman. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Cirque du Soleil Night
Individual judges' scores in this chart (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli.
The couples performed one unlearned dance inspired by a Cirque du Soleil show, while acrobats, aerialists, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%27s%20Maze | Sultan's Maze was first released in the United Kingdom in 1983 by Gem Software and then in 1984 in Spain and the UK by Amsoft. The game was included in the game packs that came with the computer when purchasing an Amstrad CPC 464.
Gameplay
The game starts with the legend that the Sultan was visiting Hampton Court and was robbed of his jewels while in the maze. His bodyguard tried to recover them but was murdered by the group of thieves. In the present day setting of the game, the player must enter the maze and recover the jewels bringing them back outside. Aside from making it through the maze without getting lost or tired the player must also be on the look out for the ghost of the Sultan's bodyguard.
References
1983 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Dragon 32 games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Amsoft games
Gem Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Zanni | John Zanni (born June 20, 1962) is the Chief Executive Officer of Acronis SCS, an Arizona-based edge data security and cyber protection company that provides software to the US public sector. As part of this role, he often speaks at conferences, publishes articles, and participates in media interviews to discuss cybersecurity strategies, tools, and best practices. Prior to becoming Acronis SCS' CEO, Zanni held various leadership and management positions at Acronis, Parallels, and Microsoft.
Before joining the tech industry in 1994, Zanni managed his family-owned French restaurant, Le Rendezvous, in Newbury Park, California.
Career
1980–1993: Chef-owner, Le Rendezvous Restaurant, California.
1994–2010: General Manager, Worldwide Hosting and Cloud Industry, Microsoft.
2010–2013: Vice President of Service Provider Marketing and Alliances, Parallels.
2013–2014: Chief Marketing Officer, Parallels.
2014–2015: Senior Vice President of Cloud and Hosting Sales, Acronis.
2015–2017: Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Channel and Cloud Strategy, Acronis.
2017–2018: President, Acronis.
2018–2019: President, Acronis Foundation.
2018 – present: CEO, Acronis SCS.
See also
Acronis
Parallels, Inc.
References
Living people
1962 births
California State University, Northridge alumni
Businesspeople from Santa Monica, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodatabank | Astrodatabank is a wiki website containing a collection of astrological data. The freely accessible database features the birth details and associated birth charts of public figures and mundane events. The collection was started by astrologer, Lois Rodden in 1979. Astrodatabank is currently owned and maintained by the Swiss company Astrodienst and is published in English.
History
In 1979, Lois Rodden started publishing birth data with her book, Profiles of Women. Eventually this led onto the formation of Astrodatabank. Mark McDonough developed the Astrodatabank database work using the astrology birth data collected by Lois Rodden over 40 years of research. Six months before Lois Rodden died, Lois named Pat Taglilatelo as her successor. The data collection of another lifelong collector, Edwin Charles Steinbrecher, was integrated into the database during the next two years.
In July 2005, McDonough gave Richard Smoot ownership of the company. Astrodatabank was later bought by the Swiss company Astrodienst AG, of Alois Treindl, in 2008, and converted into a wiki project and made freely accessible to all.
Astrodatabank as a wiki was released on 12 March 2009, with 72,271 pages, in English. The names Astrodatabank, Astro-Databank, AstroDatabank, and ADB refer to the one and same project Astrodatabank.
Application and Usage
The contents and data of the wiki have been recommended for the purpose of research related to astrological studies. The project has been referred to by the National Council for Geocosmic Research for astrological research and has been recommended by Astrological Association of Great Britain as a large collection of verified astrological charts and a useful resource for scientific research.
Researchers have imported Astrodatabank birth chart data into the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for analysis. They claim that Astrodatabank sets the standards for rigorous astrological methodology and meet social scientific research design standards.
Export files of the AstroDienst database were used by the open source Python program TkAstroDb to analyze the contents of the Astrodatabank in a more blunt statistical way. TkAstroDb was written by Tanberk Celattin Kutlu. It produces spreadsheets of the major statistical data found in the ADB export files, like data on ADB categories. The resulting gigabytes of statistical astrological data on ADB categories were published online as excel files by the former ADB editor Sjoerd Visser. The conclusion of The ADB Research Group was, that almost all claimed astrological variation could simply be explained by the sampling error, in contrary to the persistent irrational belief of astrologers that astrologically seen chance does not exist. The ADB researchers concluded that all statistically seen relevant astrological factors were too small to be predictive at the individual level. And that the large effects found in smaller ADB samples, were statistically seen neglectable wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram%20route%209%20%28Antwerp%29 | Tram route 9 is a route in the Antwerp tram network connecting the Eksterlaar neighborhood in southern Deurne with Linkeroever using the Antwerp premetro network between Plantin and Van Eeden stations. The present day route was officially opened on September 1, 2012, as part of a revision of the network map.
History
Historic route (-1953)
The first tram route 9 originally operated a route between the Van Schoonbekeplein, near the Eilandje neighborhood, and Antwerpen Berchem station, using a trajectory via Meirbrug, the Stadspark and Dageraadplaats. In 1953 however, tram tracks were broken up, and the route was replaced by bus route 9, following the same itinerary. Later, bus route 9 was extended from Berchem station to the Fruithoflaan, also in Berchem.
After the opening of the new tram route, the operation of bus route 9 was suspended. The trajectory between Berchem station and the Fruithoflaan was transferred to the newly created bus routes 90, 91 and 92, which subsequently continue there itinerary to Mortsel and either Lier, Waarloos or Kontich. In 2014, the trajectory of these lines was slightly modified to better service the Fruithoflaan, resuming the old route of bus line 9 in the street, which had previously not been the case.
Present day route (2012-)
On September 1, 2012, the new tram route 9 was officially opened on the Linkeroever-Eksterlaar trajectory as a part of a large scale redrawing of the Antwerp public transport network. The new route replaced tram route 11 on the Eksterlaar-Berchem station trajectory, as this route had been shortened to the latter, and introduced a new premetro connection between Berchem and Linkeroever. Between Berchem station and Plantin premetro station, the route uses a part of the tram network and a premetro entrance that had previously only been in use for trams running between their depot and destined lines, although it had already been used temporarily in 1988 by route 8 and in the 1990s by route 11 due to construction works on their original trajectories.
On this trajectory was, along with the opening of route 9, also built a new tram stop named Zurenborg, being located in the famous Art Nouveau Zurenborg neighborhood. This stop is currently the only one in the entire Antwerp tram network making use of an island platform. Because trams in Antwerp do in general only have doors on the right side of the vehicle, the trams on route 9 are required to drive on the left side of the road when halting at the stop.
Colour
Trams on route 9 use combination of white text, depicting the number 9 and the destination, and an orange background.
Rolling Stock
Most trams on route 9 are of the more modern HermeLijn type. However, older coupled PCC cars can still sporadically been seen on the route.
References
External links
http://www.delijn.be, the operator of all public transport in Antwerp.
Antwerp Premetro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datai%20Langkawi | The Datai Langkawi is a resort in Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia. The resort overlooks the Datai Bay on one side and a rain forest on the other. The Datai Langkawi opened in October 1993.
Management
When it opened, The Datai Langkawi was managed by General Hotel Management (GHM), a hotel management company based in Singapore. This resort was the first project of GHM which subsequently came under the management of Destination Resorts & Hotels Sdn. Bhd on 28 July 2011. The Datai Langkawi is currently managed by Datai Hotels and Resorts Sdn Bhd, a company incorporated to manage and operate hospitality properties in Malaysia and beyond.
Refurbishment
The Datai Langkawi temporarily closed its doors on 4 September 2017 to embark on an extensive USD 60 million renovation project. The Datai Langkawi appointed Didier Lefort to lead this project, the designer who worked with Kerry Hill on the original construction of the property. In September 2018, The Datai Langkawi was reopened initially with a soft launch period.
References
Buildings and structures in Kedah
Langkawi
Hotels in Malaysia
Architecture in Malaysia
Hotels established in 1993
Hotel buildings completed in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unith | Unith, previously Crowd Mobile and Crowd Media, is an Australian and European-based artificial intelligence business, focusing on media technology around conversational commerce and its Talking Head platform for mobile and smart device applications. Unith’s Talking Head platform combines AI with machine-learning based technology to generate digital avatars that appear visually as unique individuals.
The company is publicly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Domenic Carosa launched the company in 2009 with a mobile app that focused on providing crowd sourced expert answers to customer questions.
Crowd Mobile was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2015 and raised AU$3.8 million in pre-IPO funding in the same year.
Service
Unith’s artificial intelligence (AI) leverages its data bank which has been accumulating data on human-to-human conversations since 2009. These human interactions provide the underlying data that delivers Unith’s conversational AI services which enable computer-to-human conversations in real time. Audio elements of the platform are generated from voice cloning or synthetic audio to provide corresponding sound that accompanies the visual elements. Digital avatars are then powered by conversational AI for them to provide humanized interactions in real time across multiple languages.
Unith’s conversational AI is a B2B service where Unith delivers conversational AI capabilities to its clients, enabling them to automate customer service, marketing, sales, and education with interactive capability that corresponds with audio and visual elements.
Unith’s artificial intelligence platform is further supported by its partners that specialise in different elements of media technology, including a 10% equity stake in Aflorithmic Labs, a Spain-based synthetic audio company, and partnership with media search company SrcFlare.
History
Domenic Carosa founded Crowd Mobile in 2009 after leaving his previous role with the Destra Corporation. The mobile app was created so users could pay to ask experts to answer their questions, with each question billed at a set amount. In 2014, the company's financials showed that Crowd Mobile had processed more than 3.4 million questions. The total questions generated AU$9.8 million in revenue, which gave the company a gross income of AU$2.2 million for the financial year.
According to an article in ZDNet, the company had expanded to operate in 13 countries by 2015. During the same year, Q Limited acquired the Australian company in a reverse-takeover. Shortly after the takeover, the company raised AU$3.8 million in pre-IPO funding prior to its IPO listing. It was reported that Artesian Venture Partners' crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd was responsible for AU$363,000 of the pre-IPO funding.
During the same year, plans were announced for Crowd Mobile to diversify into the micro job market. Following the IPO their 2015 market capitalisation was set |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Luis%20Small | Mario Luis Small is a sociologist and Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. Small's research interests include urban poverty, inequality, personal networks, and qualitative and mixed methods. Small was previously a faculty member at Harvard University, University of Chicago, and Princeton University.
Biography
Small was born in Cerro Viento, Panama. He earned a B.A. in 1996 from Carleton College and an M.A. and Ph.D from Harvard University. Small has received many awards for his writings. He is the only person to win the C. Wright Mills Award for best book twice for Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio in 2005 and Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life in 2010. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Books
Small, Mario L., & McCrory Calarco, Jessica. 2022. Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Small, Mario L. 2017. Someone To Talk To. New York: Oxford University Press.
Small, Mario L. 2009. Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, New York: Oxford University Press
Small, Mario L. 2004. Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Contributions to sociology
Small has published books and numerous articles on urban poverty, personal networks, and the relationship between qualitative and quantitative social science methods.
He has shown that poor neighborhoods in commonly-studied cities such as Chicago are not representative of ghettos everywhere, that how people understand and make sense of their neighborhood shapes how it affects them, and that local organizations in poor neighborhoods often broker connections to both people and organizations. Small has also demonstrated that people’s social capital—including how many people they know and how much they trust others—depends on the organizations in which they are embedded.
His work on methods has shown that many practices used to make qualitative research more scientific are ineffective.
Small has investigated why ghettos differ from city to city and how people decide whom to turn to when seeking support.
In his 2017 book Someone To Talk To Small explores whom Americans confide in. Existing theories and common sense suggest that people confide in their intimates, yet Small finds evidence that Americans often turn to people who are not close to them when discussing difficult topics. For example, many people respond to the US General Social Survey (GSS) question 'what are the people with whom you discussed matters important to you?’ by naming their close friends and family. Yet Small suggests these people are not necessarily the ones with whom respondents actually discuss matters important to them. Rather, people often confide in those with whom they have "weak ties," as the need for understa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exes%20and%20OMGs | "Exes and OMGs" is the eighth episode of the seventh season of the mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, which aired on August 16, 2016, on the cable network Freeform. The hundred and forty-eighth episode, it was directed by Kimberly McCullough and written by Charlie Craig. "Exes and OMGs" received a Nielsen rating of 0.6 and was viewed by 1.11 million viewers, down from the previous episode. It received positive reviews from critics.
The series revolves around a group of five women—collectively known as Liars—, who receive anonymous messages in the form of threats from an unknown person named A.D., while they struggle to survive a life with danger. In this episode, the Liars go in search for answers about Mary Drake's second child, while Hanna decides to address the problem face-to-face.
Plot
At night, the Liars and Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) are at Rosewood's main street, talking about the possibility of Noel Kahn being A.D., and Alison (Sasha Pieterse) reveals that Noel pushed a girl off the stairs in a party the Liars attended years ago. Hanna (Ashley Benson) insists that Noel is A.D., but the girls are indecisive, what makes Hanna angry. Caleb starts talking with Hanna about A.D., but a car interrupts them and ends up running over Caleb. Hanna sees Noel (Brant Daugherty) driving the car and screams. However, she wakes up and finds it was just a dream. A worried Hanna then goes to Caleb's and finds him hard at work trying to discover what is behind Mary Drake's files. Before Hanna leaves, he gives her a bug-free new phone.
Aria (Lucy Hale) struggles with the possibility of Nicole being alive, and her relationship with Ezra (Ian Harding) becomes strained when she reveals that she deleted Nicole's call from his phone. Alison decides to return to work as a teacher at Rosewood High, but her students end up playing a trick on her. Emily (Shay Mitchell) receives a job-offer from principal Hackett (John O'Brien) to work as a swim coach at the school, and finds out that Paige (Lindsey Shaw) has returned to Rosewood and is also a candidate for the job. Spencer and Aria get together to find Dr. Cochran, with whom Noel was talking to the day before, and discover that he was responsible for the birth of both Mary Drake's children when she was hospitalized in Radley.
Emily tries to convince Ezra that Aria deleted Nicole's call with only the best intentions. Hanna receives a strange visit from Mrs. Grunwald (Meg Foster), who says Hanna is in danger and increases Hanna's fear in relation to Noel. Paige reveals to Emily that she almost joined the Olympics, but a car accident ended up destroying that possibility. Aria buys a ticket for Ezra to get him closer to the latest news on Nicole, delaying their wedding. Hanna goes rogue and decides to work alone in an unknown plan to take down A.D. once and for all.
Production
The episode was directed by Kimberly McCullough, her second credit as a director on the series, the first one being the thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Palace%20of%20Firebirds | The Palace of Firebirds ( ) is a 2016 book, by Tymo Lin (Chinese: 提子墨), This is a mystery and love story spanning half a century. From the modern computer age back to those years when thousands upon thousands of US Armed Forces from the Vietnam War were taking R&R in Taiwan.
Four individuals from the younger generation: a one-time IT management director now a telemarketer; a home-geek romance novelist; a former female super star; a scammer with a soft heart and a villain’s face join forces in an odyssey across Taiwan.
Their lives have intersected with an advanced cancer patient "Ms. Hu" - known as "Christina", one of the first Jazz singers in Taipei’s American club back in 1966.
In search of the American Sergeant, "Ryan Jenkins", from San Francisco who disappeared and a long-lost mixed little boy, Oliver Hu-Jenkins, they started an "Oliver Mission" journey on a scrapped blood donation bus named "Phoenix".
From north to south, from beautiful cities and counties to an aboriginal tribal village... they travel through Taiwan searching for the missing boy, Oliver, and a secret promised land, "The Palace of Firebirds".
On the journey, they use modern computing, networking, hacking, and cyber man hunting technologies to look for the boy who disappeared without a trace.
In the meantime each of them found an important missing piece in their own lives and a meaningful lesson for their future...
This novel is currently in circulation at the "San Francisco Public Library" in the states.
References
Taiwanese mystery novels
Taiwanese romance novels
2016 Taiwanese novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO%20Group | NSO Group Technologies (NSO standing for Niv, Shalev and Omri, the names of the company's founders) is an Israeli cyber-intelligence firm primarily known for its proprietary spyware Pegasus, which is capable of remote zero-click surveillance of smartphones. It employed almost 500 people as of 2017.
NSO claims that it provides authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime. The company says that it deals with government clients only. Pegasus spyware is classified as a weapon by Israel and any export of the technology must be approved by the government.
According to several reports, NSO Group spyware has been used to target human rights activists and journalists in various countries, was used for state espionage against Pakistan, for warrantless domestic surveillance of Israeli citizens by Israeli police, and played a role in the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi government.
In 2019, instant messaging company WhatsApp and its parent company Meta Platforms (then known as Facebook) sued NSO under the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In 2021, Apple filed a lawsuit against NSO in the U.S., and the US included NSO Group in its Entity List for acting against U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, effectively banning U.S. companies from supplying NSO.
Corporate profile
Overview
NSO Group is a subsidiary of the Q Cyber Technologies group of companies. Q Cyber Technologies is the name the NSO Group uses in Israel, but the company goes by OSY Technologies in Luxembourg, and in North America, a subsidiary formerly known as Westbridge. It has operated through various other companies around the world.
Founding
NSO Group was founded in 2010 by Niv Karmi, Omri Lavie, and Shalev Hulio. Hulio and Lavie were school friends who went into the technology start-up sector during the mid-2000s. The pair founded a company - CommuniTake - which offered a tool that let cellphone tech support workers access the customers' devices (but necessitating that the customer grant permission to enable access). After a European intelligence agency expressed interest in the product, the pair realised they could instead develop a tool that could gain access to phones without user authorisation, and market it to security and intelligence agencies. Karmi, who served in military intelligence and the Mossad, was brought on board to help market the tool with the help of his contacts. The first iteration of NSO's Pegasus spyware was finalised in 2011.
Operations
NSO Group has come to employ over 700 personnel globally. Almost all of NSO's research team is made up of former Israeli military intelligence personnel, most of them having served in Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, and many of these in its Unit 8200. The company's most valuable staff are graduates of the military intelligence's highly selective advanced cyberweapons training programs. NSO seeks to uncover a surfeit of zero-day |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Sport%20Networks | Action Sport Networks is a network of three specialty sports video-on-demand channels.
Background
About 1997, Steve Bellamy had the idea of cable channel for skiing and started work on the concept. He switch to working on a tennis channel concept given the broader audience for tennis. In 2005, Bellamy and the rest of the Tennis Channel's management was swept out by the owners.
History
In 2006, Bellamy became Chief Executive Officer of Action Sport Networks. In April 2007, Bellamy announced the formation of The Ski Channel television Video on demand channel that would focus on mountain oriented sports, activity and lifestyle initial under the banner of his Atonal Sports and Entertainment company. In August 2012, Bellamy announced that he's launching a second Action Sports Networks outlet, the Surf Channel in mid-September. By 2015, Bellamy was made chairman of Action Sport Networks.
The Surf Channel
The Surf Channel is a sports, travel and lifestyle video on demand channel. Programs are also available on YouTube. The channel is expected to be available in 20 million homes via the video on demand services of cable and satellite companies like DirecTV, Dish Network, Comcast, Cox Communications, Filmon.com and YouTube. The channel is expected to generate its revenue primarily from advertising instead of user fees.
In February 2011, the channel began filming its original programs. During the August 2012 US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, Steve Bellamy announced that he's launching a third outlet, the Surf Channel, that will devote itself to beach, water and board sports, lifestyle and travel, in mid-September. At the open, the channel made the Association of Surfing Professionals board aware that it was interest in re-airing contest and highlights. From the open, the channel had already posted in August some content on YouTube on which the channel had a preferred partnership agreement for surf content. The initial program was The Endless Summer.
Most of the programs consist of movies and originals. On YouTube, the channel has as separate programming slate. Manulele Incorporated is a producer of programming for the channel under its executive producer Mike Latronic. Original films included “Winter”, "The Story” and a Shane McConkey documentary.
References
External links
Cable network groups in the United States
Sports television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Good%20Soldier%20%28Grimm%29 | "The Good Soldier" is the 11th episode of the supernatural drama television series Grimm of season 3 and the 55th overall, which premiered on January 17, 2014, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by Rob Wright, and was directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green.
Plot
Opening quote: "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
Someone is murdering veterans who were accused of atrocious crimes during service, leading Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) to investigate evidence of a manticore involvement. Meanwhile, Rosalee (Bree Turner) and Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) are visiting Rosalee's estranged mother (Bryar Freed-Golden) and older sister (Laura Faye Smith). Meanwhile, Adalind (Claire Coffee) is beginning to get her powers back.
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 5.71 million people, earning a 1.5/5 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking third on its timeslot and seventh for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind Bones, Dateline NBC, Hawaii Five-0, Undercover Boss, 20/20, and Shark Tank. This was a 7% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 5.33 million viewers with a 1.3/4. This means that 1.5 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 5 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 8.55 million viewers with a 2.6 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"The Good Soldier" received positive reviews. The A.V. Club's Kevin McFarland gave the episode a "B" grade and wrote, "Episodes like 'The Good Soldier' fall into my least favorite type of case structure on Grimm: episodic crime plots that don't reveal or advance anything about the central characters. Last week's episode spotlighted Hank and showed him getting back in the game while working on a case. But this week's plot didn't involve the Airstream until the final 10 minutes, instead featuring a didactic missive against military contractors given immunity from prosecution in American war zones. However, rarely has an episode of Grimm culminated in such an outright cool fight sequence that didn't involve the main characters. So as far as episodes like this go, 'The Good Soldier' is probably my favorite."
Nick McHatton from TV Fanatic, gave a 3.7 star rating out of 5, stating: "Manticores, looking like something I would fight against in a Final Fantasy game, came to Portland seeking vengeance in Grimm Season 3 Episode 11. The case with the manticores was pretty average. There's really not much to talk about."
MaryAnn Sleasman from TV.com, wrote, "'The Good Soldier' was a bit of a downer for everyone. Rosalee was ultimately forgiven by her family and welcomed back. Monroe got the 'hurt her and we'll kill you speech' (it's a classic) and surprisingly, the Blutbad prejudice was kept to a minimum. Their journey was traumatic like early-to-mid-'90s sisterhood mov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%201997 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 1997, there were 21 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "In the Meantime", the debut single by alternative rock band Spacehog, which spent the first three weeks of the year at number one. The final number-one single of the year was "The Memory Remains" by American heavy metal band Metallica.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 1997 was "The Memory Remains" by Metallica, which spent the last six weeks of the year at number one. Reef's "Come Back Brighter" was number one for five weeks, while the band also spent two weeks atop the chart with "Yer Old". Green Day's "Hitchin' a Ride" also spent five weeks at number one, while Jon Bon Jovi was number one for five weeks with "Midnight in Chelsea" (three weeks) and "Queen of New Orleans" (two weeks). Marilyn Manson's "Tourniquet" spent three weeks at number one and one week with "The Beautiful People", while "In the Meantime" by Spacehog, "Song 2" by Blur and "Monkey Wrench" by Foo Fighters were all number one for three weeks. Five singles – "Swallowed" by Bush, "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" by Aerosmith, "Freak" by Silverchair, "Afraid" by Mötley Crüe and "Anthem" by The Wildhearts – spent two weeks each at number one on the chart during 1997.
Chart history
See also
1997 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1997
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
1997 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus%20%28spyware%29 | Pegasus is a spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group that is designed to be covertly and remotely installed on mobile phones running iOS and Android. While NSO Group markets Pegasus as a product for fighting crime and terrorism, governments around the world have routinely used the spyware to surveil journalists, lawyers, political dissidents, and human rights activists.
As of March 2023, Pegasus operators were able to remotely install the spyware on iOS versions through 16.0.3 using a zero-click exploit. While the capabilities of Pegasus may vary over time due to software updates, Pegasus is generally capable of reading text messages, call snooping, collecting passwords, location tracking, accessing the target device's microphone and camera, and harvesting information from apps. The spyware is named after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology.
Cyber watchdog Citizen Lab and Lookout Security published the first public technical analyses of Pegasus in August 2016 after they captured the spyware in a failed attempt to spy on the iPhone of a human rights activist. Subsequent investigations into Pegasus by Amnesty International, Citizen Lab, and others have garnered significant media attention, most prominently in July 2021 with the release of the Pegasus Project investigation, which centered on a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers reportedly selected for targeting by Pegasus customers.
Background
NSO Group developed its first iteration of Pegasus spyware in 2011. The company states that it provides "authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime." NSO Group has published sections of contracts which require customers to use its products only for criminal and national security investigations and has stated that it has an industry-leading approach to human rights.
Discovery
Pegasus's iOS exploitation was identified in August 2016. Arab human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor received a text message promising "secrets" about torture happening in prisons in the United Arab Emirates by following a link. Mansoor sent the link to Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto, which investigated, with the collaboration of Lookout, finding that if Mansoor had followed the link it would have jailbroken his phone and implanted the spyware into it, in a form of social engineering.
Citizen Lab and Lookout discovered that the link downloaded software to exploit three previously unknown and unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS. According to their analysis, the software can jailbreak an iPhone when a malicious URL is opened. The software installs itself and collects all communications and locations of targeted iPhones. The software can also collect Wi-Fi passwords. The researchers noticed that the software's code referenced an NSO Group product called "Pegasus" in leaked marketing materials. Pegasus had previously come to light in a leak of records from Hacking Team, which indicated the software had bee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNN%20%28Thai%20TV%20channel%29 | TNN ((), also known as TNN16 (), an acronym for Thai News Network) is a Thai satellite, cable and digital terrestrial 24-hour news channel owned by Thai News Network (TNN) Co., Ltd., a unit of TrueVisions, a subsidiary of True Corporation, part of the Charoen Pokphand Group and Telenor, presents news, documentaries and sport news.
TNN has a sister channel called TNN2.
History
Earlier History
TNN was founded as IBC 3 on 17 May 1989. It was the one of the first seven channels broadcasting on IBC satellite television platform on channel 1.
Later, on 1 November 1997, IBC 3 rebranded to IBC News and reformed its format to present news only.
On 1 July 1998, after IBC reached an agreement to merge with the UTV Cable Network and formed UBC, IBC News rebranded to UBC News and continue to broadcast on UBC channel 7. On 1 September 2003, UBC News got a new look, add a new image to consider as a news channel, consistent with the change of the UBC logo.
In 2006, the channel rebranded to UBC News 24, later known as True News 24 as the network was rebranding to TrueVisions in 2007.
TNN
In 2008, True News 24 rebranded to TNN and split into two channels. TNN24 became a 24-hour news channel and TNN2 now broadcasts in-depth news and documentaries.
TNN24 officially launched on 9 September 2008 on TrueVisions channel 7. The following year, on 9 September 2009, its website was launched.
On 1 January 2010, TNN launched its radio station TNN Radio (), broadcast on the Royal Thai Army Radio Station JS 2, Department of Military Communications FM 103.0 MHz, bringing live news programming from TNN24 into a radio format parallel to the television broadcast. It ceased broadcasting in 2011.
In 2010, TNN24 launched its free-to-air service on Thaicom 5 both and C band and also launch its channel on other subscription television provider, PSI and DTV.
Thai News Network (TNN) Co., Ltd. was established on 17 August 2011 to become the subsidiary of TrueVisions and serves as the owner of the channel.
On 1 March 2012, TNN24 started to air its high-definition channel on TrueVisions cable TV service on channel 124 and expanded to broadcast on satellite service after that.
In April 2014, TNN24 began broadcasting on digital terrestrial television on channel 16 after it was awarded a digital TV license in December 2013.
The channel has the same channel number on every platform due to the Must-carry rule provided by National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) but was still broadcast on TrueVisions channel 7 until the NBTC made an order to force TrueVisions to move the channel to number 16 in 2016.
In February 2019, TNN24 rebranded to TNN16, but still broadcast on TrueVisions in HD, Channel 117 and 777 as before. It aims to be the number 1 digital TV business news channel in Thailand and began to merge with some of True4U's news team. Then on 18 November, the same year, expanded the studio for filming more news programs on True Tower 2, Pattanakarn Road, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%20Up%20Party | Pop Up Party is Cartoon Network's first African production in collaboration with Urban Brew Studios, and airs on DStv, channel 301 across the African continent. It is a series of short, five-minute episodes featuring a group of young African dancers as they pop up across adult locations and interrupt with a dance, inviting everyone to join in on the fun. It was renewed for a second season in which a group of kids have a dance off that included secret challenges. The live-action show premiered on 23 July 2016.
References
African animation
Cartoon Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adian%E2%80%93Rabin%20theorem | In the mathematical subject of group theory, the Adian–Rabin theorem is a result that states that most "reasonable" properties of finitely presentable groups are algorithmically undecidable. The theorem is due to Sergei Adian (1955) and, independently, Michael O. Rabin (1958).
Markov property
A Markov property P of finitely presentable groups is one for which:
P is an abstract property, that is, P is preserved under group isomorphism.
There exists a finitely presentable group with property P.
There exists a finitely presentable group that cannot be embedded as a subgroup in any finitely presentable group with property P.
For example, being a finite group is a Markov property: We can take to be the trivial group and we can take to be the infinite cyclic group .
Precise statement of the Adian–Rabin theorem
In modern sources, the Adian–Rabin theorem is usually stated as follows:
Let P be a Markov property of finitely presentable groups. Then there does not exist an algorithm that, given a finite presentation , decides whether or not the group defined by this presentation has property P.
The word 'algorithm' here is used in the sense of recursion theory. More formally, the conclusion of Adian–Rabin theorem means that set of all finite presentations
(where is a fixed countably infinite alphabet, and is a finite set of relations in these generators and their inverses)
defining groups with property P, is not a recursive set.
Historical notes
The statement of the Adian–Rabin theorem generalizes a similar earlier result for semigroups by Andrey Markov, Jr., proved by analogous methods. It was also in the semigroup context that Markov introduced the above notion that that group theorists came to call the Markov property of finitely presented groups. This Markov, a prominent Soviet logician, is not to be confused with his father, the famous Russian probabilist Andrey Markov after whom Markov chains and Markov processes are named.
According to Don Collins, the notion Markov property, as defined above, was introduced by William Boone in his Mathematical Reviews review of Rabin's 1958 paper containing Rabin's proof of the Adian–Rabin theorem.
Idea of the proof
In modern sources, the proof of the Adian–Rabin theorem proceeds by a reduction to the Novikov–Boone theorem via a clever use of amalgamated products and HNN extensions.
Let be a Markov property and let be as in the definition of the Markov property above.
Let be a finitely presented group with undecidable word problem, whose existence is provided by the Novikov–Boone theorem.
The proof then produces a recursive procedure that, given a word in the generators of , outputs a finitely presented group such that if then is isomorphic to , and if then contains as a subgroup. Thus has property if and only if . Since it is undecidable whether , it follows that it is undecidable whether a finitely presented group has property .
Applications
The following properties of finite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Brilliant%20Idiots | The Brilliant Idiots is a weekly podcast based in New York City offered by the Loud Speakers Network on iTunes, SoundCloud and streaming service iHeart Radio. featuring media personality Charlamagne Tha God and comedian Andrew Schulz.
History
The first episode was released in April 2014. The podcast was first developed through Charlamagne tha God and Schulz working together on MTV2's Guy Code. It was created as a way for the two to express comedic uncensored opinions and views that they usually cannot express working for Viacom and iHeart Radio, respectively.
Format
The show features Schulz and Charlamagne discussing current events, including entertainment news, race relations in America, sex, relationships, and politics. The show is filmed in a studio by AlexxMedia and clips are uploaded to YouTube. They sometimes have a segment called "Ask An Idiot" where they answer questions provided by listeners through email. This has now mostly been left to live shows only.
They are often joined in the studio by Charlamagne's best friend and bodyguard Wax, who has become a fan favorite.
Race
One of the recurring topics of the podcast deals with the ideas of white privilege in race relations in America, with the two hosts discussing and analyzing it with many guests.
Live shows
The show has gone around the world performing live shows from New York City to London, England where they interact with fans, and have the "Ask An Idiot" segment.
Guests
The show has had a wide range of guests including Daymond John, Claudia Jordan, Tahiry Jose, Melyssa Ford, fellow Guy Code co-stars Timothy DeLaGhetto, Lil Duval, and SNL cast member, Pete Davidson along with others.
References
External links
Comedy podcasts
Audio podcasts
2014 podcast debuts
American podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTJX-FM | WTJX-FM (93.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, educational public radio station, serving as the NPR network affiliate for the United States Virgin Islands. The station is licensed to Charlotte Amalie. The station is owned and operated by the Virgin Islands Public Broadcasting System, which also owns sister station WTJX-TV, a PBS affiliate.
The station signed on the air on January 12, 2015.
External links
Official Website
TJX-FM
Radio stations established in 2015
2015 establishments in the United States Virgin Islands
NPR member stations
Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
Public broadcasting in insular areas of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Hee | Van Hee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kees van Hee (born 1946), Dutch computer scientist
Kim Van Hee (born 1978), Belgian singer
See also
Van Hees
Dutch-language surnames
Surnames of Dutch origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Bascom | Julia Bascom is an American autism rights activist. She is the current executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and replaced Ari Ne'eman as president of ASAN in early 2017.
Advocacy work
Bascom previously worked on the New Hampshire State Developmental Disabilities Council. She also serves on the boards of Advance CLASS, Inc. and the Centene National Advisory Council on Disability. She was the Deputy Executive Director of ASAN, and replaced Ari Ne'eman as president of ASAN in 2017.
Bascom was one of the experts consulted to create an autistic character, Julia, for the children's show Sesame Street.
As an autistic person herself and an advocate, Bascom stresses the importance of letting autistic people speak for themselves on issues that relate to their health, rights and well-being. She states that it is important to recognize that autistic people are different and that there "is nothing wrong with us". On April 2, 2018, Bascom addressed the "state of women and girls with autism" at the United Nations.
Loud Hands Project
Bascom organized and founded the Loud Hands project. Loud Hands was designed to be a "transmedia project", that is, one that uses "multiple forms of content--written words, videos, visual art, the internet, and more". The project was launched in December 2011 as crowdfunding campaign to create an anthology of essays written by autistic people. The resulting anthology, Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, was described as "groundbreaking" in Steve Silberman's NeuroTribes. The project has put together over 20 years of culture, history and writing by and about autistic people.
Bibliography
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking (8 December 2012) (editor)
And Straight on Till Morning: Essays on Autism Acceptance (28 March 2013) (editor)
The Obsessive Joy of Autism (21 May 2015)
References
Autism activists
American disability rights activists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People on the autism spectrum
American activists with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20the%20Black%20Cat | is a 2016 Japanese computer-animated family adventure drama film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Motonori Sakakibara. It was released in Japan by Toho on August 6, 2016.
Plot
Rudolf is a domestic little black cat from the little town of Gifu (region of Chubu, the center of Japan) who never left his home, being cared for by the child Rie, his owner. When Rie's mother asks her to visit his grandmother to take her food, Rudolf follows Rie out of the house in the wish to know the world outside the home. But when Rudolf runs afoul of a fishmonger, running away and gets inside a trailer of a truck, he's knocked out cold by a broom the fishmonger threw. When Rudolf wakes up and gets out from the trailer to explore, he meets "Gottalot", a big bobtailed street cat who lets Rudolf sleep under a temple. The next morning, Gottalot and Rudolf traverse the town, as Rudolf learns that Gottalot was given a lot of names by the people he encountered, but when he asks Gottalot if he was a pet cat, he leaves in a huff. Soon after, Rudolf encounters another cat by the name of Buchi with a habit of imitating martial arts moves and yelling "Hyah", who tells Rudolf that Gottalot was known as the Junk Tiger. He also tells Rudolf about a dangerous dog by the name of Devil. As Buchi offers to let Rudolf hang around his house, he explains Gottalot's fight against a Doberman, who threatens to tear his ear off if he returns. Buchi cuts the story short when he sees a beautiful Siamese cat and goes after her, but says goodbye to Rudolf.
Returning to the temple, Gottalot after learning that Buchi told Rudolf about his past, Gottalot explains that next to Devil's house is where his owner used to live until he went to the United States, leaving him. but taught him one thing, the ability to read. After Gottalot and Rudolf encounter Devil, Gottalot explained that since he became a stray, Devil looked down on him. After meeting up with Buchi, Gottalot and Rudolf infiltrate the school and enter a classroom, where Rudolf and Buchi become intrigued with the books, encouraging Rudolf to learn to read as Gottalot says that Rudolf will also need to learn how to write. the days went by as Rudolf learned to read, write and understand the Japanese characters. one day, when one of the teachers is watching TV, Rudolf sees his hometown, which is Gifu, which is known for the cable cars and castles. despite knowing that Gifu is over a hundred miles away, Rudolf decides to find a way to get home, by going into a truck heading for Gifu, but what he entered was a freezer truck. Gottalot and Buchi chase after the truck and retrieve Rudolf (frozen in a small block of ice) and free him. but Gottalot berates Rudolf for almost freezing to death.
Autumn came, and when a poster about a tour bus to Gifu, Rudolf and Gottalot ask Buchi, who becomes enticed to a Scottish Fold Cat named Misha who tells them that the bus will come at November 10 on 6:30 AM. Later in the day, Gottalot was injured by Devil. So, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wrath%20of%20Kahn | "The Wrath of Kahn" is the ninth episode of the seventh season of the mystery drama television series Pretty Little Liars, which aired on August 23, 2016, on the cable network Freeform. The hundred and forty-ninth episode, it was written by Jonell Lennon and directed by Chad Lowe. "The Wrath of Kahn" received a Nielsen rating of 0.5 and was viewed by 1.09 million viewers, down from the previous episode. It received positive reviews from critics.
The series revolves around a group of five women—collectively known as Liars—, who receive anonymous messages in the form of threats from an unknown person named A.D., while they struggle to survive a life with danger. In this episode, Hanna begins her plan to kidnap the dangerous Noel Kahn, while the other Liars investigate secrets of the past and present of the suspicious Mary Drake.
Plot
Hanna (Ashley Benson) rages and ends up trying to make a deal with Noel (Brant Daugherty), and, indirectly, drug him in order to lock him up; however, her initial goal fails and she uses a plan B. Aria (Lucy Hale) joins Jason (Drew Van Acker) in a deep research inside Mary Drake's past, and she ends up recalling the past, when she had an affair with Jason years ago. Spencer (Troian Bellisario) finds herself desperate when she finds a flash drive in the Kahn's old cabin, containing videos of the girls when they were stuck in the A's Dollhouse. In the same flash drive, Spencer and the girls find out that Noel was helping Charlotte to torture them years ago. Emily (Shay Mitchell) confesses to Paige (Lindsey Shaw) that she is suffering again, and her relationship with Sabrina (Lulu Brud) plummets. Marco (Nicholas Gonzalez) tries his best to approach Spencer, and the two end up approaching when someone breaks into Spencer's house and she calls him to help her. Jason and Aria find out that someone manipulated the adoption files of Mary's second son, but, nonetheless, they discover that Noel's father, Steven, was responsible for the adoption, leading Aria to believe that Noel is Mary's second son. Aria receives a message from Ezra, who reveals that Nicole is still missing, and Aria is happy with the news, since Nicole could ruin her engagement with him.
The episode ends with Hanna hitting Noel in the head with a stick, after having tried to trick him.
Production
The episode was directed by Chad Lowe, serving as Lowe's first directing credits on the season and the fourteenth credit on the series. Jonell Lennon served as the writer of the episode, making her first appearance as a writer on the seventh season. The title of the episode was revealed by Lennon on June 15, 2016. The table-read for the episode occurred on June 2, 2016 and filming commenced on June 15 and wrapped on June 23, 2016.
Reception
Broadcast and ratings
The episode first aired in the United States on August 23, 2016, to a viewership of 1.09 million Americans, and garnered a 0.5 rating in the 18–49 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research. Val |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluseun%20Onigbinde | Oluseun Onigbinde (18 September 1985) is a Nigerian entrepreneur and open data analyst, popularly known as the co-founder and CEO of budgIT, a Nigerian civic startup. Oluseun Onigbinde is a fiscal transparency advocate and a firm believer in the power of open data. In 2012, he was awarded the Future Awards Prize for Science and Tech Innovation.
Oluseun on 13 September 2019, got appointed as Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Budget and National Planning. Some Nigerians reacted badly to his appointment due to his past criticism of the same government that appointed him.
On Monday, 16 September 2019, Oluseun resigned his appointment as Technical Adviser to the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning on his Medium page.
Early life
Oluseun is a native of Masifa, Ogbomoso, Oyo State. He was born in Osogbo, presently Osun State, Nigeria.
Educational background
He had his primary and secondary school education in Ibadan. The prestigious Loyola College, Ibadan where he excelled in the sciences. He scored nine distinctions in his West African Examinations Council's exam, earning the best result of the school's 2001 set.
Oluseun attended the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta where he obtained a bachelor of engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical/Electronics Engineering and the Stanford university graduate school of business where he completed the executive program in social entrepreneurship.
Career
During his NYSC, he was posted to Benin City where he got a job at Access bank. He later joined First Bank for a period of three and half years. It was while he was working at First Bank that he got the idea for BudgIT. According to him, his interest in banking was from the strategy angle, a space where he could contribute his ideas.
Oluseun Onigbinde is a recipient of several awards and he is currently an Obama Foundation Scholar at Columbia University. He is a board member of the ONE Africa Policy Advisory Board.
He was appointed as Technical Adviser at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning but resigned few days after this appointment.
BudgIT
In 2011, Oluseun Onigbinde and Joseph Agunbiade formed a team during a hackathon held at the Co-Creation Hub. It was here that he came up with the idea for a need to publicize government spending to the general public, leading to the startup BudgIT. In 2014, the Omidyar Network invested $400,000 in BudgIT; this has always been listed on their website. In June 2015, the Kaduna State government under the administration of Mallam El-Rufai, signed BudgIT to build Open Budget mobile portal similar to the Buharimeter; a platform which was built by BudgIT for Center for Democracy and Development to hold President Buhari accountable for his campaign promises. In January 2017, BudgIT raised an additional $3 million grant from Omidyar Network and Gates Foundation. In February 2016, Oluseun Onigbinde was honoured to make a presentation at the Chatham House under the African Project on issue of accou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%20Mu%20%28academic%29 | Yi Mu () is a professor in Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, SAR, Macau, China. He obtained his PhD from the Australian National University in 1994. He was a professor of computer science at the University of Wollongong prior to his job as a professor at Fujian Normal University during 2018 and 2020. He has published more than 500 papers in journals and conference proceedings in cryptography, information security, quantum cryptography, and quantum optics. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Cryptography
His seminal work about one-atom lasers (single atom laser) was experimentally realized by H. Jeff Kimble. His work on quantum key distribution is regarded as MSZ96 protocol, which is based on quantized quadrature phase amplitudes of light.
References
External links
"Yi Mu", DBLP
"Yi Mu", "Google Scholar"
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Wollongong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | Spike was an Australian pay television channel owned by Paramount Networks UK & Australia (Formerly ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia). It launched on 1 July 2016 on Fetch TV and was exclusive to that service. A localised version of the U.S. channel of the same name, it primarily aired entertainment programming geared towards a male audience, including import dramas, programming from its former U.S. counterpart, and mixed martial arts.
The channel aired programming similar to other Spike channels worldwide, such as Bar Rescue, Bellator MMA and Lip Sync Battle, along with Exclusive original programming. The channel was dropped from Fetch TV and closed on 27 February 2022 with no replacement; most of its programming had already transitioned to the domestic version of Paramount+ in the months prior. go carry
References
External links
Defunct television channels in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2016
2016 establishments in Australia
Spike (TV network)
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2022
2022 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20augmentation | Data augmentation is a technique in machine learning used to reduce overfitting when training a machine learning model, by training models on several slightly-modified copies of existing data.
Synthetic oversampling techniques for traditional machine learning
Data augmentation for image classification
When convolutional neural networks grew larger in mid-1990s, there often was not enough available data to train them, especially considering that some part of the overall dataset should be spared for later testing. It was proposed to perturb existing data with affine transformations to create new examples with the same labels, which were complemented by so-called elastic distortions in 2003, and the technique was widely used as of 2010s.
Data augmentation for signal processing
Residual or block bootstrap can be used for time series augmentation.
Biological signals
Synthetic data augmentation is of paramount importance for machine learning classification, particularly for biological data, which tend to be high dimensional and scarce. The applications of robotic control and augmentation in disabled and able-bodied subjects still rely mainly on subject-specific analyses. Data scarcity is notable in signal processing problems such as for Parkinson's Disease Electromyography signals, which are difficult to source - Zanini, et al. noted that it is possible to use a generative adversarial network (in particular, a DCGAN) to perform style transfer in order to generate synthetic electromyographic signals that corresponded to those exhibited by sufferers of Parkinson's Disease.
The approaches are also important in electroencephalography (brainwaves). Wang, et al. explored the idea of using deep convolutional neural networks for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition, results show that emotion recognition was improved when data augmentation was used.
A common approach is to generate synthetic signals by re-arranging components of real data. Lotte proposed a method of "Artificial Trial Generation Based on Analogy" where three data examples provide examples and an artificial is formed which is to what is to . A transformation is applied to to make it more similar to , the same transformation is then applied to which generates . This approach was shown to improve performance of a Linear Discriminant Analysis classifier on three different datasets.
Current research shows great impact can be derived from relatively simple techniques. For example, Freer observed that introducing noise into gathered data to form additional data points improved the learning ability of several models which otherwise performed relatively poorly. Tsinganos et al. studied the approaches of magnitude warping, wavelet decomposition, and synthetic surface EMG models (generative approaches) for hand gesture recognition, finding classification performance increases of up to +16% when augmented data was introduced during training. More recently, data augmentation studies have begun to f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wild%20Hunt%20%28Grimm%29 | "The Wild Hunt" is the 12th episode of season 3 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm and the 56th episode overall, which premiered on January 24, 2014, on the cable network NBC. The episode was written by series creators Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, and was directed by Rob Bailey.
Plot
Opening quote: "Come back in the evening, I'll have the door locked to keep out the wild huntsmen."
After dinner in a restaurant, Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) shows Rosalee (Bree Turner) something in the clock: an engagement ring. He proposes to Rosalee and she accepts. Meanwhile, a police officer pursues a car in a chase and finally catches up with it but the driver is nowhere to be found and the officer is scalped by a creature.
Monroe and Rosalee begin discussing telling Monroe's parents about their engagement, something which worries Monroe as he didn't tell them she is a Fuchsbau.
Reception
Viewers
The episode was viewed by 5.88 million people, earning a 1.5/5 in the 18-49 rating demographics on the Nielson ratings scale, ranking second on its timeslot and fourth for the night in the 18-49 demographics, behind Bones, 20/20, and Shark Tank. This was a 2% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 5.71 million viewers with a 1.5/5. This means that 1.5 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 5 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 8.77 million viewers with a 2.6 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"The Wild Hunt" received positive reviews. The A.V. Club's Kevin McFarland gave the episode a "B" grade and wrote, "Well, that certainly wasn't the kind of cliffhanger I was expecting heading into the Olympics hiatus. Grimm has used a playful, comedic title card immediately after a cliffhanger before. I remember at least one of the season finales doing the same thing. The gleefully shocked reaction on the title card — 'OH %&$*,' basically — suited the situation in the last 30 seconds of the episode, with Monroe's parents going full woge to attack Nick and Monroe trying to peacefully intervene. But that shift clashed dramatically with the lengthy and excruciating confrontation between Rosalee and Monroe's parents. Last week, Monrosalee visited the Fuchsbau side in supporting plot, but tonight, the couple is the main focus, leading to a few squeal-worthy moments and then one painfully overwrought climactic event."
Nick McHatton from TV Fanatic, gave a 4.0 star rating out of 5, stating: "As all good Grimm episodes are likely to do, Grimm Season 3 Episode 12 ended with the 'To be continued...' card. The biggest development was Monroe finally popping the question to Rosalee! It was quite adorable and imaginative - proposing with a cuckoo clock - and it fit Monroe's character so well."
MaryAnn Sleasman from TV.com, wrote, "For a season that has reveled in contrasting the Wesen world with the h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%20Simms | Hal Simms (June 10, 1919 – July 2, 2002) was an American television announcer, known for his long career on the CBS television network.
Life and career
Simms was born on June 10, 1919, in Boston. He graduated from the Boston Latin High School and in 1940, he received a degree from the University of Michigan.
Simms started his career at a radio station in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and a CBS affiliate station in Philadelphia before moving to New York City. He was persuaded to move to New York by Robert Q. Lewis and Mike Wallace, whom Simms knew from college.
Beginning in the early 1950s, he became a frequent television and radio announcer on CBS programs, known for saying the tagline "CBS presents this program in color." Among the programs that Simms announced were Beat the Clock, The Guiding Light, The Frank Sinatra Show, The Edge of Night, Go Lucky, I'll Buy That, What's My Line?, Rate Your Mate, and The Steve Allen Show. Simms appeared with Jack Paar on The Morning Show.
For his last ten years at CBS, Simms was announcer-in-chief. After a fifty-year career, Simms retired in 1992.
Simms lived in White Plains, New York, for many years. He served as president of the Brotherhood at Temple Israel Center in White Plains and as president of the New York chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).
Simms died on July 2, 2002, at the age of 83, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Simms was married to Renée Simms, with whom he had three children. Simms is interred at Ferncliff Cemetery.
References
Works cited
Vincent Terrace, Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows (McFarland: 1999.
Vincent Terrace, Television Introductions: Narrated TV Program Openings since 1949 (Scarecrow: 2013).
1919 births
2002 deaths
American radio personalities
American television personalities
Mass media people from Boston
People from White Plains, New York
Radio and television announcers
University of Michigan alumni
Boston Latin School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20triple | A semantic triple, or RDF triple or simply triple, is the atomic data entity in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model. As its name indicates, a triple is a sequence of three entities that codifies a statement about semantic data in the form of subject–predicate–object expressions (e.g., "Bob is 35", or "Bob knows John").
Subject, predicate and object
This format enables knowledge to be represented in a machine-readable way. Particularly, every part of an RDF triple is individually addressable via unique URIs—for example, the statement "Bob knows John" might be represented in RDF as:
http://example.name#BobSmith12 http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows http://example.name#JohnDoe34.
Given this precise representation, semantic data can be unambiguously queried and reasoned about.
The components of a triple, such as the statement "The sky has the color blue", consist of a subject ("the sky"), a predicate ("has the color"), and an object ("blue"). This is similar to the classical notation of an entity–attribute–value model within object-oriented design, where this example would be expressed as an entity (sky), an attribute (color) and a value (blue).
From this basic structure, triples can be composed into more complex models, by using triples as objects or subjects of other triples—for example, Mike → said → (triples → can be → objects).
Given their particular, consistent structure, a collection of triples is often stored in purpose-built databases called triplestores.
Difference to relational databases
A relational database is the classical form for information storage, working with different tables, which consist of rows. The query language SQL is able to retrieve information from such a database. In contrast, RDF triple storage works with logical predicates. No tables nor rows are needed, but the information is stored in a text file. A RDF-triple storage can be converted into an SQL database and the other way around. If the knowledge is highly unstructured and dedicated tables aren't flexible enough, semantic triples are used over classic relational storage.
In contrast to a traditional SQL database, an RDF triple storage isn't created with a table editor. The preferred tool is a knowledge editor, for example Protégé. Protégé looks similar to an object-oriented modeling application used for software engineering, but it's focused on natural language information. The RDF triples are aggregated into a knowledge base, which allows external parsers to run requests. Possible applications include the creation of non-player characters within video games.
Limitations
One concern about triple storage is its lack of database scalability. This problem is especially pertinent if millions of triples are stored and retrieved in a database. The seek time is larger than for classical SQL-based databases.
A more complex issue is a knowledge model's inability to predict future states. Even if all the domain knowledge is available as logical predic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20Media%20Group | The Fusion Media Group (FMG; formerly Fusion Media Network) is a division of Univision Communications. The company was launched in April 2016 after Univision bought out Disney's stake in Fusion through the Fusion Media Network joint venture between Univision & Disney-ABC. While Univision is focused on serving Hispanic America in Spanish, FMG is the company's multi-platform, English language division targeting young adults.
Operations
The Root, an online magazine on African-American culture, was acquired by Univision in 2015. It was eventually placed within FMG.
In January 2016, The Onion was acquired, along with its sibling properties.
Univision Story House was introduced in May 2016 as the content development and production unit of Univision, but to be managed by FMG.
In August 2016, FMG acquired the online properties of Gawker Media, excluding Gawker.com, and renamed the company Gizmodo Media Group.
In July 2018, it was reported that Univision plans on selling the Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion. In April 2019, Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion were sold to Great Hill Partners. The sale was completed on April 8, 2019, with Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion being merged to form G/O Media, Inc.
Brands
FMG includes both online and television properties, with a combined digital reach of around 65.6 million people in May 2016.
Current assets
Uforia (Still active)
Investing.com (Still active)
The Flama (inactive)
TrackRecord.net (inactive)
Univision Story House (inactive)
Former assets
Fusion TV
Gizmodo Media Group (now G/O Media) (formerly Gawker Media, Fusion)
Gizmodo
Deadspin
Jezebel
Lifehacker
Jalopnik
Kotaku
io9
Splinter News
The Root
Earther
The Inventory
The Takeout
The Onion
ClickHole (sold by G/O Media to Cards Against Humanity, now employee-owned)
The A.V. Club
References
Mass media companies of the United States
Univision
Companies based in Doral, Florida
Mass media companies established in 2016
Cable network groups in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20of%20Magic | The Best of Magic was a British magic show produced by Thames Television for the ITV network that aired from 13 September 1989 to 19 September 1990. The show was hosted by Geoffrey Durham, Simon Mayo, and Anthea Turner, with frequent guest appearances by Arturo Brachetti and Max Maven.
List of episodes
References
External links
1989 British television series debuts
1990 British television series endings
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television shows produced by Thames Television
British television magic series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Future%20Institute | Golden Future Institute (), often abbreviated as GFI, is a comprehensive private institute for languages, computer and short time training skills, located in the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. Golden Future Institute was legally mandated in 2007 to provide a quality language and computer skills to the Somali Ethnic community in Addis Ababa.
History
In 2007 the institute was originally started as English language school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as the first Somali owned school. Then the school was expanded by providing other language courses (French, Amharic, Arabic and Somali), computer department, and as well as providing free short time training skills in leadership, team management and adult basic education.
Programs and Courses
Language, Computer and short time training courses.
References
Schools of English as a second or foreign language
Education in Addis Ababa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpi | Magpi is a software company, founded in 2003 by Joel Selanikio and Rose Donna under the name DataDyne, and is based in Washington, D.C., USA and Nairobi, Kenya.
The company's origins were detailed by Selanikio in a 2013 TED talk: "The Big Data Revolution in Health".
Users
Magpi has been used by the WHO and others as part of evaluation efforts for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
In 2014, Magpi was used by the Instituto Nacional Saude Publica in Guinea-Bissau in a pilot investigation of SMS disease reporting.
Magpi continues to be used by the IFRC in the Central African Republic since 2013 to improve reporting from health facilities in conflict areas.
Awards
Magpi has received numerous awards, including:
21st Century Achievement Award for Collaboration – The Computer World (2012)
FRIDA Award for contributing to the information society in Latin America (2010)
Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare (2009)
The Tech Museum Award (2008)
The Stockholm Challenge Award (2008)
Social Enterprise of the Year – Fast Company (2009)
The World Bank's Development Marketplace Competition (2003)
References
External links
Health Market Innovations Profile
Mobile device management software
Health information technology companies
Companies established in 2003
Information and communication technologies in Africa
Social enterprises |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20Polytechnic%20Bhaga | Government Polytechnic Bhaga, campus in BIT, is a college of mining engineering, computer engineering and food technology in Motinagar, Jharkhand. Established in 1905, Government Polytechnic Bhaga is considered the oldest college of mining engineering in Asia. The studies of mining started earlier in 1887, before formal establishment.
See also
Education in India
Literacy in India
List of institutions of higher education in Jharkhand
References
External links
Schools of mines in India
Government universities and colleges in India
Universities and colleges in Jharkhand
Education in Dhanbad district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutation%20%28telemetry%29 | In telemetry, commutation is a process whereby multiple data streams ("measurands"), possibly with differing data rates, are combined into a single frame-based stream for transmission, before being separated again (decommutated) upon reception; it is a form of time-division multiplexing. Frame synchronization must be achieved before a data stream can be decommutated.
Etymology
Commutation is named by analogy with electric commutators, which engage multiple electrical contacts in sequence as they rotate; similarly, telemetry commutation involves sampling a sequence of data points in turn, before returning to the first data point. Hardware or software which performs commutation is referred to as a commutator; its opposite at the receiving end is a decommutator. Dedicated hardware generally supports faster commutation and decommutation than software on a general purpose architecture.
Mechanism
A set of data words, together with synchronization and ID or counter words, constitute a minor frame; a set number of minor frames are combined to form a major frame. Measurands occupy fixed positions within each major frame, with these positions defined in a database, allowing them to be extracted. Measurands may be sampled multiple times within each minor frame (supercommutation), or they may only be sampled once in several frames (subcommutation), depending on the required data rate for each measurand.
Commutated frames may also contain asynchronous data, which require further processing to extract.
Decommutators may be equipped to handle multiple frame formats, containing different sets of measurands in different positions, for use in different operating modes; a switch in format may be signaled with a specific measurand. Translators exist to allow support for equipment-specific database formats.
Decommutated measurand values may be stored in a "current value table" or other architecture.
See also
Serialization
References
Further reading
Telemetry Tutorial (PDF), L3 Communications
Data transmission
Telemetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20systems%20pharmacology | Quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) is a discipline within biomedical research that uses mathematical computer models to characterize biological systems, disease processes and drug pharmacology. QSP can be viewed as a sub-discipline of pharmacometrics that focuses on modeling the mechanisms of drug pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and disease processes using a systems pharmacology point of view. QSP models are typically defined by systems of ordinary differential equations (ODE) that depict the dynamical properties of the interaction between the drug and the biological system.
QSP can be used to generate biological/pharmacological hypotheses in silico to aid in the design of in vitro or in vivo non-clinical and clinical experiments. This can help to guide biomedical experiments so that they yield more meaningful data. QSP is increasingly being used for this purpose in pharmaceutical research & development to help guide the discovery and development of new therapies. QSP has been used by the FDA in a clinical pharmacology review.
Origin
QSP emerged as a discipline through two workshops held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008 and 2010, with the goal of merging of systems biology and pharmacology. The workshops outlined a need for a mathematical discipline to aid in translational medicine. QSP proposed integrating concepts, methods, and investigators from computational biology, systems biology, and biological engineering into pharmacology.
A review of the history and future of QSP identified areas where it has advanced understanding of drug mechanisms, supported preclinical to clinical translation, and in general aided in drug development. The FDA has included QSP as a component of the Model-Informed Drug Development Program.
References
External links
QSP Special Interest Group at ISoP
QSP as Simulations Plus
QSP at Certara
eBook: The Emerging Discipline of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology
The UK QSP Network
Pharmacology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne%20International%20Games%20Week | Melbourne International Games Week is the largest game professional and consumer communication and networking platform in Asia Pacific, hosted by Creative Victoria. It comprises a confluence of events for three areas of interest, business, consumer and industry.
MIGW 2015 had over 60,000 attendees participating in game developer conferences and consumer shows across the city, including Game Connect Asia Pacific, Unite Melbourne, PAX Australia, Freeplay Independent Games Festival's Parallels showcase, the Women in Games Lunch, Australian Game Developers’ Awards, ACMI Family Day, VR and Serious Games Festival and the Education in Games Summit.
2016's MIGW events were held in close proximity in a number of venues, including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. More than 65,000 people attended in 2017.
The 2018 MIGW programme also includes a number of new events, including the first Melbourne Queer Games Festival focusing on games with LGBT content, an e-sports conference, and the new High Score Conference exploring the relationship between games and music.
With the advent of COVID 19, MIGW changed to an online format in 2020-21, featuring interactive events from ACMI, Gamer Cirls and MIGW at the Table, a 12-hour TTRPG gaming and streaming event.
References
External links
Melbourne International Games Week
In the Name of Games #MIGW17
Video game industry
Events in Melbourne
Video gaming in Australia
Observances in Australia
Week-long observances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange%20Changes | "Strange Changes" is a song that was co-written by Lynsey de Paul and Sue Shifrin (Sue Shifrin Cassidy), the former wife of David Cassidy and that is listed in the ACE database of ASCAP songs and also in the MusicBrainz database.
Original recording
After signing a worldwide recording contract with MCA Records at the end of 1980, "Strange Changes" was released as a single on 27 April 1981 by de Paul on the MCA label with the semi instrumental flipside "Strange Changes (2)" in an visually striking picture sleeve of de Paul and the title in rainbow colours. It was released in the UK, Europe, Scandinavia and Australia. In addition, a promo 12 inch white label single with an extended version of the song was also released as a limited issue, leading to it becoming a collectors item. The song also appeared on the 1981 French compilation of hits album, Hot Summer Nights, on the Arabella record label, as well as being released as a single in France. The recording was co-produced by Jon Kelly and de Paul. While the song was not immediately as commercial as many of de Paul's other hits, it had a laid back, hypnotic feeling ahead of its time that grows on repeated listening. The British DJ and music journalist James Hamilton (DJ and journalist) wrote in the music paper Record Mirror, "MCA’s mystery Fleetwood Mac-sounding ‘Strange Changes’ white label teaser turns out to be by Lynsey De Paul – oh, goodie!", with other sources also noting a similarity to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks. In his review of the single for Music Week (at that time known as "Music & Video Week"), Tony Jasper wrote "Infectious light-riding sensitive cut which in pop terms scores high. Inventive, creative, deserves notice for returning lady."
It subsequently made the UK Airplay action chart as well as the UK disco chart breakers/bubblers listing. Writing on her website, de Paul revealed she wrote this song when she was living in the United States and wanted to come back home to the UK. "It meant leaving behind a life that had taken five years to build and a long term relationship with James Coburn. I literally felt that I was going through a strange change" she said. De Paul performed the song on a number of TV programmes including the German TV series WWF Club on the 10 July 1981, - a DVD of this performance was released on "WWF Club Festival 3". She also performed the song on the second episode of the UK TV music programme Razzamatazz on 9 June 1981. It was included as a track on her Hit Singles album.
Resurgence and remixed as a Balearic classic
The song is still popular, having become a balearic classic, and it featured on "Beam Me Up" by Albion in 2015 and "12 Strange Changes - BeachFreaksRecords For Polanski Magazine Vol.05". It was the first song on the "After Midnight" DJ set by Martino Valentino, and features on the play list of online radio station "Overfitting, The Balearic Mike & Ben Monk show on 1 Brighton FM, Radioactive FM, Tomorrow Land on PBS106.7 FM, Ginea Radio, T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Register%20System | Business Register System (, abbreviated URS) is a statistical business register in Germany which provides structural data about economic sectors and serves as the essential source of information about entities which is needed for planning, preparation and implementation of statistical surveys.
Legal basis
Business Register System 95 (URS 95) operates according to EU Regulation (EEC European Economic Community) No 2186/93 on Community
coordination in drawing up business registers for statistical purposes.
URS also has a national legal basis: Statistical Register Law – StatRegG of 16 June 1998.
URS Neu, newer register system operates according to the newer version of regulation No 177/2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes.
References
Economic databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective%20vision | Objective Vision (Object Oriented Visionary) is a project mainly aimed at real-time computer vision and simulation vision of living creatures. it has three sections contain of an open-source library of programming functions for using inside the projects, Virtual laboratory for scholars to check the application of functions directly and by command-line code for external and instant access, and the research section consists of paperwork and libraries to expand the scientific prove of works.
Background
The process has been used in the OVC libraries is as same as what's happening when living see a picture, and it's designed to give the researchers to experience the brain's visual cortex most close simulation for picture perception. The OVC was designed to work as a simulated visual cortex that has a critical job in processing and classify the objects to make it easier to work with pictures and graphical perception and processing. The human brain is much more aware of how it solves complex problems such as playing chess or solving algebra equations, which is why computer programmers have had so much success building machines that emulate this type of activity. but when the whole process is still a riddle that how the entities visionary system works. The project was simulated the visionary system by how it starts to convert the signals to image(actually the edges and colors) and then recognizing the shapes to find a relation between brain's information and image. The Objective Visionary system actually is concentrating on the separable sections, this separation gives the application visionary system the excellence processing result, because with this method the system do not waste much time on processing non significant sections and signals. this operation in the Objective Vision project called objective processing and because the O.V. mission is focused on human visionary simulation, so the developer refers with Objective Vision.
History
Objective-Vision is a Human (Natural) Visionary simulation Project developed by Michael Bidollahkhany. Following an explosion of interest during the 21st century were characterized by the maturing of the field and the significant growth of active applications; simulation of visionary systems, visionary based autonomous vehicle guidance, medical imaging (2D and 3D) and automatic surveillance are the most rapidly developing areas. This progress can be seen in an increasing number of software and hardware products on the market, as well as in a number of digital image processing software and APIs and also machine vision courses offered at universities worldwide. Therefore, the OVC project has been released as a research software project in 2016. One of important parts of this project was O.V.C. (Objective Vision Class library), that was designed to able companies and scientists to use the brain's most likely functionalities as visionary libraries to simplify and accelerate the image processing algorithms developments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornhaber%20Brown | Kornhaber Brown is an independent video production company based in New York City. The company has created shows and campaigns for MTV, PBS, Riot Games, Complex Networks, Condé Nast, Fusion, YouTube, Univision, AMC Networks, and HGTV.
History
Kornhaber Brown was founded in 2009 by Eric Brown and Andrew Kornhaber. Its first notable release was the video Porn Sex vs. Real Sex: The Differences Explained With Food, which received over eighteen million views and was honored by The Webby Awards in 2014.
It created the PBS Digital Studios series Off Book, Idea Channel Game/Show, Infinite Series, Stellar, and Space Time, and the MTV series Braless, Pants Off, Decoded, and The Racket.
The company was honored by The Webby Awards for Idea Channel, Braless and Decoded.
Productions
Original channels/series
PBS | PBS Off Book
PBS | PBS Idea Channel
PBS | PBS Game/Show
PBS | PBS Infinite Series
PBS | PBS Space Time
PBS | Stellar
MTV | MTV Braless
MTV | MTV Decoded
MTV | The Racket
MTV | Pants Off
Complex Networks | Group Therapy
Riot Games | /All Chat
Wired | Data Attack
Flama | Secret Life of Babes
Scripps Network | Awkward Moments
Scripps Network | Do Better Daily
HGTV | Can I Come In?
Viral videos
AMC | "Could You Rip Out A Spine?" (2015)
Glamour Magazine | "The History of the Bra: Styles From Every Fashion Era" (2015)
YouTube Advertisers | "What Do You Really Know About Gamers?" (2015)
Wired | "The Female Orgasm, Explained with Science Projects" (2015)
Carnegie Hall | "43 Cartoon Theme Song Mashup | Ensemble ACJW" (2014)
EngenderHealth | "History's Worst Contraceptives: WTFP?! — WheresTheFP.org" (2014)
Kornhaber Brown | "Porn Sex vs Real Sex: The Differences Explained With Food" (2013)
New York Theatre Workshop | "A Look At The New Musical, ONCE" (2012)
MTV | "Everything You Know About Thanksgiving is Wrong" (2015)
MTV | "White People Whitesplain Whitesplaining" (2015)
Awards
The Webby Awards
People's Voice - Online Film & Video - Public Service & Activism (Channel) (2015) - MTV Braless
Online Film & Video - First Person (2014) - PBS Idea Channel
Best Host (2013) - Mike Rugnetta - PBS Idea Channel
Video Series & Channels (2017) - Public Service & Activism - MTV Decoded
CINE
Golden Eagle Award - Narrative Content: Series/MiniSeries— Episodes of 30 Minutes or Less (2015) - 60SECOND PRESIDENTS
The Mashies
Best Video Series (2013) - PBS Idea Channel
References
External links
Official website
Video production companies
Mass media companies based in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWebRTC | OpenWebRTC (OWR) is a free software stack that implements the WebRTC standard, a set of protocols and application programming interfaces defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It is an alternative to the reference implementation that is based on software from Global IP Solutions (GIPS).
It is published under the terms of the Simplified (2-clause) BSD license and officially supports iOS, Linux, OS X, and Android operating systems. It is meant to also work outside web browsers, e.g. to power native mobile apps.
It is mostly written in C and based largely on the multimedia framework GStreamer and a number of other, smaller external libraries. It officially supports both VP8 and H.264 as video formats. For H.264 it uses OpenH264 to which Cisco pays the patent licensing bills.
Development of OpenWebRTC started at Ericsson Research under the lead of Stefan Ålund. They released it as free software in September 2014, together with the proof-of-concept web browser "Bowser" that is based on the stack. Among other things, this initial version didn't support data channels yet and was said to still be less mature than Google's reference implementation.
References
External links
Software using the BSD license
Web development
Web standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20museums | Below is a list of computer museums around the world, organized by continent and country, then alphabetically by location.
Asia
Japan
IPSJ Computer Museum - A virtual museum by IPSJ, an academic society of information processing in Japan
KCG Computer Museum, Kyoto - a computer museum by KCG, an education institution
Tokyo University of Science Museum of Science's "History of the Computer"
South Korea
Nexon Computer Museum
Oceania
Australia
The Australian Computer Museum Society, Inc, NSW - very large collection
The Nostalgia Box, Perth - Video Game Museum
Powerhouse Museum - Has Computer Exhibit
Monash Museum of Computing History, Monash University
New Zealand
Techvana, Auckland
Europe
Belgium
Computermuseum NAM-IP, Namur
Unisys Computermuseum, Haren (Brussels)
Croatia
Peek&Poke, Rijeka
Czech Republic
Apple Museum, Prague
Denmark
Dansk Datahistorisk Forening, Hedehusene
Finland
Rupriikki Media Museum, Tampere
Finnish Museum of Games, Tampere
France
ACONIT, Grenoble
, Paris
FEB, Angers
Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Musée de l’imprimerie, Lyon
AMISA : Association pour un Musée de l’informatique, Sophia Antipolis
INRIA : Institut national de recherche en Informatique et Automatique, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin
Silicium, Toulouse
Germany
Computerspielemuseum Berlin, Berlin - Video Game Museum
BINARIUM, Dortmund - Video Game and Personal Computer Museum
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn
Computermuseum der Fakultät Informatik, University of Stuttgart
Oldenburger Computer-Museum, Oldenburg
Computeum, Vilshofen, with a selection from the Munich Computer Warehouse, Private Collection
Deutsches Museum, Munich - Large computer collection in their Communications exhibit
technikum29 living museum, Frankfurt - Re-opened in January 2020.
Computerarchiv Muenchen, Munich - Computer, Video Games and Magazine Archive
Computermuseum der Fachhochschule Kiel, Kiel
:de:Analog Computer Museum, Bad Schwalbach / Hettenhain - Large collection of analog computers, working and under restoration.
Greece
Hellenic IT Museum
Ireland
Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland, National University of Ireland
Israel
The Israeli Personal Computer Museum, Haifa
Italy
Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante, Palazzolo Acreide (Siracusa)
Museo del Computer, via per Occhieppo, 29, 13891 Camburzano (Biella)
Museo Interattivo di Archeologia Informatica, Cosenza
UNESCO Computer Museum, Padova
All About Apple Museum, Savona
Piedmontese Museum of Informatics, Turin
VIGAMUS, Rome - Video Game Museum
Tecnologic@mente, Ivrea
Museo degli strumenti per il calcolo, Pisa
The Netherlands
Bonami SpelComputer Museum, Zwolle
Computer Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Computermuseum Hack42, Arnhem
HomeComputerMuseum, Helmond
Rotterdams Radio Museum, Rotterdam
Poland
Muzeum Historii Komputerów i Informatyki, Katowice
Muzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery (Muzeum Gier), Wrocław
Apple Muzeum Polska, Piaseczno
Portugal
LOAD ZX Spectrum Museum, Cantanhede
Mus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin | Gridcoin (abbreviation: GRC) is an open source cryptocurrency which securely rewards volunteer computing performed on the BOINC network. Originally developed to support SETI@home, it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as medicine, molecular biology, mathematics, linguistics, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics.
Gridcoin requires a significant level of skill in order to begin "crunching". Despite this, Gridcoin's ability to monetise idle computing time towards "crunching" can modestly help with reducing digital divide and incentivise the public to donate their CPU time towards scientific research.
It was created on October 16, 2013, by Rob Halförd. Gridcoin, initially using the energy-intensive proof of work - as used by Bitcoin, before migrating to a proof of stake protocol in 2014, similar to Peercoin, in an attempt to address the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining.
An exploit was demonstrated in August 2017 that revealed the emails of Gridcoin users and allowed the theft of other users work. The research team disclosed the vulnerability to the developers in September 2016, and the patch for the vulnerability was released in March 2017 with version 3.5.8.7, however the implementation of the fix introduced other issues.
The implementation Gridcoin-Research was created as a fork of Bitcoin and Peercoin and is licensed under the MIT License. It uses Qt 5 for its user interface and prebuilt executables of the wallet are distributed for Windows, macOS, and Debian.
References
External links
Cryptocurrency projects
volunteer computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%3A%20Star%20Light%20Adventure | Barbie: Star Light Adventure is a 2016 computer-animated adventure children's film directed by Andrew Tan and written by Kacey Arnold with assistance by Kate Boutilier and story supervision by Kristopher Fogel. The 33rd entry in the Barbie film series, it was also the first Barbie film under Mattel's then-new division, Mattel Creations, and also to feature the fashion doll's brand message sequence as part of the film's intro. The film was first given a 24-hour limited theatrical release by Fathom Events on 30 July before its debut both on home video by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on 29 August and on American television via Nickelodeon on 2 October. Mattel released related merchandise in addition to the film.
Plot
The narrator explains that a prophecy has foretold that someday the stars will cease their cosmic dance and go out, unless "The One" can start them glowing again and restore order to the galaxy. This prophecy is starting to come true, and the sky is getting darker. The rigidly organized and disciplined King Constantine, who still believes despite many failures that he must be "The One", hatches his latest plan for proving himself and starts recruiting young people to help.
On the distant wildlife preserve planet of Para-Den, Barbie is an enthusiastic if impetuous Hoverboarder, who also has the ability to communicate with animals and objects using telekinetic powers. She is afraid to accept Constantine's invitation, but her widowed father convinces her to try, and she travels to the Capital Planet.
At a great ball, King Constantine introduces Barbie to the rest of the team he has assembled – Sal-Lee, a sarcastic and competitive Hoverboarder who is also a speedster; the socially awkward and naïve Prince Leo who is the best pilot in the galaxy; and the kindhearted alien sisters Kareena and Sheena, who have a psychic connection and also possess the ability to manipulate gravity to make things lighter or heavier, respectively. Sal-Lee forces Leo to attempt to dance a waltz at the ball and he is humiliated – Barbie sympathetically starts a rave so he can dance his own way, but Constantine sees it as disorderly and puts a stop to it. Later, Barbie and Sal-Lee stay up past curfew and start to bond over a shared loneliness and fear of losing the rest of the stars.
Constantine explains his plan to discover the center of the galaxy and use a machine to zap the stars into order. He then sends Barbie and Sal-Lee on a hoverboard race through a course designed to see which is better able to take the twins through the gravity-related obstacles, but when Barbie spots danger, she convinces the twins and Sal-Lee to work together with her, also using her powers to save Sal-Lee from falling debris. Constantine is impressed, but also worried that Barbie keeps defying his orders. When she stays up past curfew again to help a distressed animal, he lectures her on the importance of following a plan in an emergency.
Things come to a head when he se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybergeddon%20%28film%29 | Cybergeddon is a nine-part cybercrime web series that was released between September 25 and September 27, 2012 by Yahoo! and was later made available as a film on Netflix. The film stars Missy Peregrym and Olivier Martinez.
Production
Directed by Diego Velasco, written by Miles Chapman and created by Anthony E. Zuiker the web series/film stars Peregrym as an FBI agent trying to clear her name and Martinez as the villain.
On March 21, 2012, the Associated Press and Reuters reported that Zuiker would release the feature length film Cybergeddon in installments on Yahoo! the following fall. This was two months after Yahoo! announced the 20-webisode series Electric City by Tom Hanks. By July Norton was on board as a sponsor and provided real computer virus hacker code, which led to prominent exposure for Norton in the final production. At the time of production, the web series, which cost $6 million, was the most expensive ever produced, about triple the cost of the previous web series (Electric City).
Distribution
Yahoo! released the film in over 25 countries and 10 languages in three installments per day for three consecutive days exclusively on the Yahoo! platform. After reaching an audience of over 25 million viewers in 25 countries online, the film was entered into a broadcast agreement for broadcast in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Canada in April 2013.
The film was released on DVD on March 17, 2014. The film was made available on Netflix in June 2014. It is listed on Netflix as a film between 88 and 89 minutes long with a PG-13 rating.
Reception
Reviews on the film were mixed. Mike Hale of The New York Times noted that the caliber of production was above that of contemporary regular network television film and on par with Syfy and USA Network productions. Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club posted a very negative review, describing the film as "deeply stupid". However, at the 3rd Streamy Awards, Peregrym won Best Female Performance – Drama, and the series had three other nominations. Zuiker went on to win an International Digital Emmy Award Pioneer Prize for his efforts at connecting Silicon Valley and Hollywood in what was at the time considered a groundbreaking production. The film was part of a critically successful year for Yahoo! video productions.
Notes
External links
Official trailer
2012 American television series debuts
2012 web series debuts
2012 crime drama films
2012 action thriller films
2012 crime thriller films
American films with live action and animation
2010s American crime drama television series
2010s American television miniseries
2010s English-language films
English-language television shows
Television series about the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Films set in Hong Kong
Films set in Los Angeles
Films set in Prague
Films set in Ukraine
Films set in Washington, D.C.
Serial drama television series
Crime drama web series
Law enforcement in fiction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Villamayor | Marilyn Villamayor is a Filipino actress, host, singer and producer. She was a former teen star and host of That's Entertainment on GMA Network in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She was introduced in the "Superstar" show when she was 14 years old and hosted a television show, Lotlot and friends, and Dr. Potpot and the Satellite Kid, together with her cousins Lotlot de Leon and Ian de Leon. She also appeared in a number of feature films.
Filmography
Film
Sa Lungga ng Mga Daga (1978)
Ma'am May We Go Out? (1985)
Halimaw sa Banga (1986)
Tatlong Ina, Isang Anak (1987)
Takot Ako, Eh! (1987)
Nakausap Ko ang Birhen (1988)
Bobo Cop (1988)
Bagwis (1990)
Feel Na Feel (1990)
Hotdog (1990)
Ang Buhay ni Pacita M. (1991)
Television guest appearances
Lovingly Yours, Helen (GMA 7)
Maalaala Mo Kaya (ABS CBN) as Belen, date aired January 21, 2017
Pera at Diploma (1991)
Mr. Kupido (ABS-CBN)
Ipaglaban Mo (ABS-CBN)
Kris (ABS-CBN)
SIS (GMA 7)
Young Love, Sweet Love (RPN 9)
Eat Bulaga (GMA 7)
Lunch Date (GMA 7)
Kwarta o Kahon (RPN 9)
Teysi ng Tahanan (ABS-CBN)
Coney Reyes on Camera (RPN 9)
Walang Tulugan (GMA-7), 2016
Maynila (GMA-7)
"My Dear Heart" as Teresa, date aired February 7 and 8, 2017 (ABS CBN)
Magpakailanman
Dear Uge
FPJs Ang Probinsyano
TV seriesLotlot and Friends (1987)
Dr. Potpot and the Satellite Kid (1985) as MaxiBridges of Love (2015) as Mama ChandaMy Fair Lady'' (Philippine Version) 2015 as Violy
References
Living people
Filipino film actresses
Filipino television actresses
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnemalm | Ragnemalm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hans Ragnemalm (1940–2016), Swedish lawyer, judge, and professor emeritus of public law
Ingemar Ragnemalm, Swedish computer programmer
Surnames of Swedish origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeDNS | SafeDNS is a cybersecurity company that specializes in providing cloud-based web filtering solutions and AI-powered technology. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virgina, US.
Origins and Initial Growth (2010-2020)
The company was founded in 2010 and has since become one of the prominent players in the industry. During its initial years, SafeDNS focused on developing its technology and establishing itself as a reliable provider of internet security solutions. The company invested in research and development; thus, in 2015, AI and machine learning were incorporated into SafeDNS content filtering solutions. By implementing continuous machine learning, SafeDNS is able to verify and categorize domains. To ensure stable and high-quality filtering, the company employs several approaches and utilizes its own and third-party databases. In case SafeDNS encounters a domain for the first time, it will redirect a user to a block page and the domain itself will be "quarantined" until it is assigned a category through scanning and a series of additional checks. This type of technology leads to 98% precision in detecting and preventing threats. On the SafeDNS website, there is an option to verify any link before clicking on it.
In 2015 SafeDNS was tested and certified as an approved Parental control product by AV-Comparatives for the first time. Since then, the company has confirmed its status every year.
In 2019, a new, highly user-friendly SafeDNS dashboard was launched. Its intuitive interface enables effortless online security management.
Present Day (2020-…)
SafeDNS continues to grow and develop new features and tools. In 2022 new features such as Cyber Security categories and AppBlocker were introduced.
SafeDNS’ long-term vision is to create a unified cybersecurity platform at the DNS level, through which organizations will be able to protect their network from existing and zero-day cyber threats and fully control the security of their network according to the company’s 3R - Reveal, React, Resist concept with minimal delay and the most innovative and practical features.
The company sees its product as a tool capable of adapting to constantly changing threats and providing comprehensive solutions for the security of company networks and several kinds of organizations. SafeDNS strives to create a world where digital security is not only practical, but accessible to everyone.
Product and Key Features
SafeDNS offers a cloud-based web filtering solution with a comprehensive database of existing domains that is updated on a daily basis. It filters the internet at the DNS layer with AI-powered technology, such as domain categorization and malicious resource detection. SafeDNS helps to provide access only to relevant internet resources, protect the network from malicious and harmful content, and be compliant with every applicable law and regulation.
AppBlocker
The AppBlocker feature allows users to restrict access to all the domains associated with a specif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BH%20Veza | BH Veza is a Bosnian television network founded in 2016.
With a syndicated broadcasting programme under the BH Veza label, cantonal public TV stations have managed to cover a significant part of the territory of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Broadcasters and the founders of the joint program BH Veza are five public television stations in the major Bosnian cities:
TVSA from Sarajevo
RTV TK from Tuzla
RTV ZE from Zenica
RTV USK from Bihać
RTV Goražde from Goražde
City TV from Mostar*
BH Veza broadcast programs that are jointly purchased, produced or co-produced by all member TV stations. The news program and a variety TV shows broadcast simultaneously on all six TV stations. On weekends, television stations jointly produce a morning or afternoon program for the network.
Public Broadcasting Service of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, RTV FBiH is not part of this project.
See also
Mreža TV
Program Plus
Television in Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
Official website of RTV TK
Official website of RTV USK
Official website of TVSA
Official website of RTV TK
Official website of CITY TV
Television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Television channels and stations established in 2016
2016 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20albums%20of%202016%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Digital Album Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly digital sales of albums and EPs.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2016 in music
ARIA Charts
List of number-one singles of 2016 (Australia)
References
Digital 2016
Australia digital albums
Number-one digital albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Management%20Sub-Layer | The SCTE Hybrid Management Sub-Layer (HMS) refers to a set of specifications intended to support the design and implementation of inter-operable management systems for evolving HFC cable networks.
The HMS Physical (PHY) Layer Specification describes the physical layer portion of the protocol stack used for communication between HMS-compliant transponders interfacing to manage outside plant network elements (NE) and a centralized headend element (HE).
The HMS Media Access Control (MAC) Layer Specification describes the messaging and protocols implemented at the Data Link Layer (DLL), Layer 2 in the 7-layer ISO-OSI reference model, that support reliable and efficient communications between HMS-compliant transponders interfacing to managed outside plant (OSP) network elements (NEs) and a centralized headend element (HE).
External links
Hybrid Fiber Coax Outside Plant Status Monitoring – Physical (PHY) Layer Specification v1
Hybrid Fiber Coax Outside Plant Status Monitoring – Media Access Control (MAC) Layer Specification v1.0
Cable television technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Lengauer | Thomas Lengauer (born 12 November 1952) is a German computer scientist and computational biologist.
Education
Lengauer studied Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin, earning his Diploma in 1975 and a Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to a PhD) in 1976. Lengauer later gained an MSc (1977) and a PhD (1979) in computer science, both from Stanford University. He received his habilitation degree in computer science at Saarland University in 1984.
Work and research
In the seventies and early eighties Lengauer performed research in Theoretical Computer Science at Stanford University, Bell Labs and Saarland University. In 1984 Lengauer became Professor of Computer Science at University of Paderborn. In the eighties and early nineties, Lengauer's research concentrated on discrete optimization methods for the design of integrated circuits and on packing problems in manufacturing. From 1992 to 2001 he was Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn and Director of the Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing at German National Center for Information Technology. Since 2001, he has been a Director of the Department on Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
With his Stanford PhD advisor Robert Tarjan, he is known for the Lengauer–Tarjan algorithm in graph theory.
Since the early 1990s his research has focused on computational biology, particularly the alignment of molecular sequences, and also the prediction of protein structure and function, and computational drug screening and design. On the latter topic he cofounded the company BioSolveIT GmbH in Sankt Augustin, Germany, together with Christian Lemmen, Matthias Rarey, and Ralf Zimmer from his team at GMD. Since 2000 he and his team have developed methods for analysis of viral resistance of HIV; in 2005 he entered the field of computational epigenetics.
Lengauer retired from his position as Director at Max Planck Institute for Informatics in 2018. Since 2019 he has been part-time affiliated with the Institute of Virology at Cologne University.
Lengauer has been the PhD advisor of over 50 students and coauthored over 350 publications.
Activities, awards, and honours
Lengauer was a cofounder of the Conference Series European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA, 1993) and European Symposium on Computational Biology (ECCB, 2002). He was a member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB) from its inception in 1997 until 2010. He is a founding member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and in 2014 became Vice President of this Society. He was elected as a Fellow of the ISCB in 2015. From January 2018 to January 2021 Lengauer was President of the ISCB.
In 2003, Lengauer was awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal, the highest award of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society), as well as the Karl-Heinz-Beckurts Award. In 2010 he was awarded the A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strays%20%281991%20film%29 | Strays is a 1991 American horror television film directed by John McPherson, written by Shaun Cassidy, and starring Kathleen Quinlan and Timothy Busfield. It aired on the USA Network on December 18, 1991.
Premise
Paul Jarrett is a lawyer from Chicago who moves into an isolated house with his wife Lindsey and his family. They soon find themselves being terrorized by a horde of stray cats.
Cast
Timothy Busfield as Paul Jarrett
Kathleen Quinlan as Lindsey Jarrett
Claudia Christian as Claire Lederer
William Boyett as Dr. Lyle Sokol
Heather and Jessica Lilly as Tessa Jarrett
See also
List of natural horror films
References
External links
1991 films
1991 television films
1991 horror films
1990s American films
1990s English-language films
American horror television films
American natural horror films
Films about cats
Films scored by Michel Colombier
USA Network original films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-DNOS |
Distributed Network Operating System (DNOS)
The Distributed Network Operating System (DNOS) is a general purpose,
multitasking operating system designed to operate with the Texas Instruments
990/10, 990/10A and 990/12 minicomputers.
DNOS includes a sophisticated file management package which provides support
for key indexed files, sequential files, and relative record files.
DNOS is a multiterminal system that is capable of making each of several users
appear to have exclusive control of the system.
DNOS supports output spooling and program accessible accounting data.
Job level and task level operations enable more efficient use of system
resources.
In addition to multiterminal applications, DNOS provides support for advanced
program development.
Users communicate with DNOS by entering commands at a terminal or by providing
a file of commands.
The System Command Interpreter (SCI) processes those commands and directs the
operating system to initiate the action specified by a command.
A text editor allows the user to enter source programs or data into the system.
A Macro Assembler is provided for assembly language programs.
Several high level languages, including Fortran, COBOL, BASIC, RPG II, and
Pascal, are supported.
A link editor and extended debugging facilities are also provided.
A variety of utility programs and productivity tools support access to and
management of information contained in a data base, design of specific forms
on the screen of a video display terminal (VDT), and word processing.
The system supports a wide range of user environments.
DNOS can support as few as one or two terminals, thus allowing the user of a
smaller System to perform tasks efficiently and yet inexpensively.
Larger configurations with a wide variety of peripherals are also supported.
The maximum configuration size varies with the user's environment.
Almost every minicomputer system requirement or application need can be met
with DNOS.
DNOS provides the base for a variety of communications products.
Standard protocols for IBM 2780/3780 and for IBM 3270 communications are supported.
Local area network software is supported for network input/output (I/O) and
logon.
In addition, sophisticated networking software is available with the
Distributed Network Communications System (DNCS) and Distributed Network I/O
(DNIO) packages.
DNCS includes networking capabilities for X.25 and IBM's Systems Network Architecture
(SNA) protocols.
DNIO provides users transparent access to other TI 990s running DNOS and can
be used to connect to local or wide-area networks.
DNOS is an international operating system designed to meet the commercial
requirements of the United States, most European countries, and Japan.
DNOS supports a complete range of international data terminals that permit
users to enter, view, and process data in their own languages.
The system includes error text files that can be edited so that error messages
can be easily translated into languages other th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura%20%28video%20game%29 | Datura is a 2012 first-person adventure game developed by Plastic and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3.
Gameplay
Datura can be played with either the PlayStation Move or the DualShock 3. The player starts as a patient in an ambulance, from which ends up mysteriously in a forest. The gameplay is built upon the exploration of the forest, where the player can interact with objects and other characters.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN praised the atmospheric elements, but criticised the shortness and the clumsiness of the gameplay. GameSpot heavily criticised the shortness and the lack of clarity in the plot. Kotaku commended its originality, yet defined the overall experience of Datura as "confusing, unsatisfying, and ultimately fleeting".
References
External links
2012 video games
First-person adventure games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20File%20System%20%28IBM%20MVS%29 | IBM's Hierarchical File System (HFS) is a POSIX-style hierarchical file system for the MVS/ESA/SP through z/OS operating systems.
IBM introduced HFS on February 9, 1993 in MVS/ESA System Product Version 4 Release 3 OpenEdition with DFSMS/MVS Version 1 Release 2 for 3090 mainframes. On April 6, 1994, IBM introduced MVS/ESA System Product (MVS/ESA SP) Version 5 Release 1, which included MVS OpenEdition (MVS-OE) with HFS as a standard component. IBM continued providing HFS through z/OS 2.4 for z System mainframes.
IBM functionally stabilized HFS starting with z/OS 1.7, in 2005. The z/OS File System (zFS) was released as the higher performance successor to HFS in 1995, and IBM recommended migration from HFS to zFS. Following the release of zFS, z/OS releases included a tool, BPXWH2Z, to convert HFS to zFS.
IBM dropped the use of HFS in z/OS 2.5, in 2021.
References
Disk file systems
IBM file systems
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Edition | Open edition may refer to:
OpenEdition.org, an open access academic publishing portal of the Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte, France
OpenEdition MVS, an operating system component of UNIX System Services
Open edition (printmaking), a printed edition of a publication limited only by the number that can be sold or produced before the plate wears out |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Place%20to%20Call%20Home%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the Seven Network television series A Place to Call Home premiered on Showcase on 11 September 2016. The series was produced by Chris Martin-Jones, and executive produced by Penny Win and Julie McGauran.
Production
On 15 October 2014, it was announced that Foxtel had finalised a deal with Channel Seven that would see third and fourth seasons written, using the outlines created by Bevan Lee, produced by Seven Productions, but aired on Foxtel.
On 25 October 2014, Amy Harris of The Daily Telegraph announced that A Place to Call Home had been officially renewed for another two seasons and would return in late 2015, airing on Foxtel channel SoHo. It was also announced that all the original cast and crew members would return.
Production on the fourth season began on 29 February 2016 and concluded on 5 August 2016. The episode order was extended from the usual 10 episodes to 12, with Foxtel's Director of Television, Brian Walsh stating, "we have extended the commission order to 12 episodes this year because the storylines are so strong".
Having departed the series at the end of the second season, Bevan Lee returned to helm this year as Script Executive, with Katherine Thomson taking over from Susan Bower as Script Producer. Shirley Barrett, Kriv Stenders, Catherine Millar and Tony Krawitz serve as directors for this season.
Of the show's return, Foxtel's Head of Drama, Penny Win stated, "Working with Seven Productions on A Place to Call Home'''s has resulted in fantastic achievements for the series. With record breaking audiences for the SoHo channel, the passionate and dedicated fans and the growing audience around the world, the show is a testament to Foxtel's commitment to great Australian storytelling." Seven's Head of Drama, Julie McGauran stated, "A Place to Call Home'' has been a hugely successful collaboration between Seven Productions and Foxtel. Together we’ve been able to engineer a wonderful partnership for everyone, especially the fans, who have so much to look forward to in season 4."
The series was also planned to air on Showcase, after SoHo was closed by Foxtel.
Plot
In this season, the characters are strongly affected by two contrasting social issues in 1954. The first is the conservative wave of fear generated by the "Reds Under the Beds" scare surrounding the Petrov Affair. The second, the wave of liberal change that opened up new social and moral choices for Australians at the time.
Cast
Main
Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Nordmann
Noni Hazelhurst as Elizabeth Bligh
Brett Climo as George Bligh
Craig Hall as Dr. Jack Duncan
David Berry as James Bligh
Abby Earl as Anna Poletti
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood as Olivia Bligh
Aldo Mignone as Gino Poletti
Sara Wiseman as Carolyn Duncan
Jenni Baird as Regina Bligh
Frankie J. Holden as Roy Briggs
Recurring & Guest
Deborah Kennedy as Doris Collins
Brenna Harding as Rose O'Connell
Heather Mitchell as Prudence Swanson
Mark Lee as Sir Richard Bennett
Tim Draxl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxCliqueDyn%20algorithm | The MaxCliqueDyn algorithm is an algorithm for finding a maximum clique in an undirected graph.
It is based on a basic algorithm (MaxClique algorithm) which finds a maximum clique of bounded size. The bound is found using an improved coloring algorithm. The MaxCliqueDyn extends MaxClique algorithm to include dynamically varying bounds. This algorithm was designed by Janez Konc and the description was published in 2007. In comparison to earlier algorithms described in the published article the MaxCliqueDyn algorithm is improved by an improved approximate coloring algorithm (ColorSort algorithm) and by applying tighter, more computationally expensive upper bounds on a fraction of the search space. Both improvements reduce time to find maximum clique. In addition to reducing time improved coloring algorithm also reduces the number of steps needed to find a maximum clique.
MaxClique algorithm
The MaxClique algorithm is the basic algorithm of MaxCliqueDyn algorithm. The pseudo code of the algorithm is:
procedure MaxClique(R, C) is
Q = Ø, Qmax = Ø
while R ≠ Ø do
choose a vertex p with a maximum color C(p) from set R
R := R\{p}
if |Q| + C(p)>|Qmax| then
Q := Q ⋃ {p}
if R ⋂ Γ(p) ≠ Ø then
obtain a vertex-coloring C' of G(R ⋂ Γ(p))
MaxClique(R ⋂ Γ(p), C')
else if |Q|>|Qmax| then Qmax := Q
Q := Q\{p}
else
return
end while
where Q is a set of vertices of the currently growing clique, Qmax is a set of vertices of the largest clique currently found, R is a set of candidate vertices and C its corresponding set of color classes. The MaxClique algorithm recursively searches for maximum clique by adding and removing vertices to and from Q.
Coloring algorithm (ColorSort)
In the MaxClique algorithm the approximate coloring algorithm is used to obtain set of color classes C. The ColorSort algorithm is an improved algorithm of the approximate coloring algorithm. In the approximate coloring algorithm vertices are colored one by one in the same order as they appear in a set of candidate vertices R so that if the next vertex p is non-adjacent to all vertices in the some color class it is added to this class and if p is adjacent to at least one vertex in every one of existing color classes it is put into a new color class.
The MaxClique algorithm returns vertices R ordered by their colors. By looking at the MaxClique algorithm it is clear that vertices v ∈ R with colors C(v) < |Qmax| − |Q| + 1 will never be added to the current clique Q. Therefore, sorting those vertices by color is of no use to MaxClique algorithm.
The improved coloring with ColorSort algorithm takes in consideration the above observation. Each vertex is assigned to a color class Ck. If k < |Qmax| − |Q| + 1 the vertex is moved to R (behind the last vertex in R). If k ≥ |Qmax| − |Q| + 1 than the vertex stays in the color class Ck and is not cop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinulot%20Ka%20Lang%20sa%20Lupa | (International title: Envy / ) is a 2017 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a Philippine graphic novel and a 1987 Philippine film of the same title. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Julie Anne San Jose and Benjamin Alves. It premiered on January 30, 2017 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Sa Piling ni Nanay. The series concluded on April 12, 2017 with a total of 53 episodes. It was replaced by D' Originals in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Santina is forced to work after the death of her aunt. She will work for Diony who eventually sends Santina to school and treats her like a daughter. Diony will later adopt Angeli leading Santina and Angeli's vying for Diony's son, Ephraim's love.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Julie Anne San Jose as Santina "Tina" Marquez-Esquivel
Benjamin Alves as Ephraim Sta. Maria Esquivel
Supporting cast
Martin del Rosario as Francisco "Francis / Kiko" Garela
LJ Reyes as Angeli "Geli" Martinez / Esquivel
Ara Mina as Mariz Alejo-Zimmerman
Jean Garcia as Diony Sta. Maria-Esquivel
Victor Neri as Cesar Esquivel
Allan Paule as Hector Marquez
Geleen Eugenio as Yoleng Sta. Maria
Janna Dominguez as Chona Garela
Lharby Policarpio as Boggs
Koreen Medina as Laureen
Guest cast
Kyle Ocampo as young Angeli "Geli" Martinez
Marc Justin Alvarez as young Ephraim Esquivel
Ar Angel Aviles as young Santina "Tina" Marquez
Candy Pangilinan as Liza Marquez
Leanne Bautista as Glenda Esquivel
Elle Ramirez as Macy Montenegro
Kiko Matos as Manny Sotto
Eunice Lagusad as Elma
Carmen Del Rosario as Lydia
Leandro Baldemor as Conrad Alejo
Sheree as Arlene Garela-Alejo
Afi Africa as Britney
Gee Canlas as Siony
Prince Clemente as Ephraim's friend
Joemarie Nielsen as Ephraim's friend
Eian Rances as Ephraim's friend
Kim Rodriguez as Julie
David Licauco as Aiden
Ge Villamil as Maring
Episodes
January 2017
February 2017
March 2017
April 2017
Production
Principal photography commenced on September 30, 2016. Filming concluded on April 6, 2017.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement household ratings, the pilot episode of earned an 11.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 5.4% rating in Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement people in television homes.
Accolades
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Elephant%20Census | The Great Elephant Census—the largest wildlife survey in history—was an African-wide census designed to provide accurate data about the number and distribution of African elephants by using standardized aerial surveys of hundreds of thousands of square miles or terrain in Africa.
The census was completed and published in the online journal PeerJ on 31 August 2016 at a cost of US$7 million.
History
Scientists believe that there were as many as 20 million African elephants two centuries ago. By 1979, only 600,000 elephants remained on the continent.
A pan-African elephant census has not been conducted since the 1970s. The idea of a modern census was devised by Elephants Without Borders and supported, both financially and logistically, by Paul G. Allen. It was also supported by other organizations and individuals, including African Parks, Frankfurt Zoological Society, Wildlife Conservation Society, The Nature Conservancy, IUCN African Elephant Specialist Group, Howard Frederick, Mike Norton-Griffith, Kevin Dunham, Chris Touless, and Curtice Griffin with the report released in September 2016.
Mike Chase, the founder of Elephants Without Borders, was the lead scientist of the census. Chase lead a group of 90 scientists and 286 crew in 18 African countries for over two years to collect the data. During this time the team flew a distance of over , equivalent to flying to the moon and a quarter of the way back, in over 10,000 hours of collecting data. The area covered represents 93% of the elephants known range.
Forest Elephants which live in central and western Africa were excluded from the survey.
Report
The final report was released on 31 August 2016 in Honolulu at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Data collected showed a 30 percent decline in the population of African savanna elephant in 15 of the 18 countries surveyed. The reduction occurred between 2007 and 2014, representing a loss of approximately 144,000 elephants.
The total population of Africa's savannah elephants is 352,271, far lower than previously estimated.
Three countries with significant elephant population were not surveyed; Namibia which would not release figures and both South Sudan and the Central African Republic where the survey was postponed as a result of armed conflict.
The rate of decline in the population is also accelerating and reached 8% in 2014. The loss of population is primarily a result of poaching with the elephants being killed for their tusks. The ivory is then illegally sold in China and the United States. It is estimated approximately 100 elephants are killed every day for ivory. Loss of habitat is another reason for the drastic reduction in population.
84% of the population was sighted in legally protected areas, and high numbers of carcasses also being found in the same protected areas.
References
Elephant conservation
Conservation projects
2016 censuses
Biological censuses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDT%20%28Digital%29 | EDT is a character-based text editor from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) running on PDP-11 (RSX-11, RSTS/E
and RT-11), and later for its OpenVMS operating system. It can respond to single keystrokes, and uses function keys to implement commands to the editor. EDT was introduced originally as a line-mode editor. The screen mode was developed first as the Keyboard Editor (KED) on RT-11 as part of the FMS-11 project by Darrell Duffy; EDT on the other operating systems was then enhanced to be compatible with KED.
The editor contains both line mode commands and a screen based editor. In screen mode, the default action for the user is to directly update text as they type, with special commands available by pressing keypad commands. Arrow keys allow for simple navigation, while keypad commands allow for more complex navigation and searches. As with many user interfaces developed around this time, EDT uses the "Gold Key" style of input first developed for the WPS-8 word processing system. "Gold Key" editing uses the PF1 keypad key as a prefix key allowing the introduction of a wide variety of commands using both the keypad keys and keys on the main keyboard. Pressing the PF2 keypad key gives on-screen help on the keypad and other key combinations:
/-----------------------------------\ /-----------------------------------\
| ^ | DOWN | | | | | | FNDNXT | DEL L |
| | | | | <---- | ----> | | GOLD | HELP | | |
| | | | | LEFT | RIGHT | | | | FIND | UND L |
| UP | v | | | |--------+--------+--------+--------|
\-----------------------------------/ | PAGE | SECT | APPEND | DEL W |
DELETE Delete character | | | | |
LINEFEED Delete to beginning of word | COMMAND| FILL | REPLACE| UND W |
BACKSPACE Backup to beginning of line |--------+--------+--------+--------|
CTRL/A Compute tab level | ADVANCE| BACKUP | CUT | DEL C |
CTRL/D Decrease tab level | | | | |
CTRL/E Increase tab level | BOTTOM | TOP | PASTE | UND C |
CTRL/K Define key |--------+--------+--------+--------|
CTRL/R Refresh screen | WORD | EOL | CHAR | |
CTRL/T Adjust tabs | | | | ENTER |
CTRL/U Delete to beginning of line |CHNGCASE| DEL EOL| SPECINS| |
CTRL/W Refresh screen |-----------------+--------| |
CTRL/Z Exit to line mode | LINE | SELECT | |
| | | SUBS |
Press a key for help on that key. | OPEN LINE | RESET | |
To exit, press the spacebar. \-----------------------------------/
Use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDT%20%28Univac%29 | EDT is a text editor running on the Unisys VS/9 operating system using the UNIVAC Series 90 mainframe computers, and as of 2013 runs on the Fujitsu BS2000 mainframe computer and operating system. It was developed by RCA for the TSOS operating system for Spectra series mainframes. The RCA version was later sold to Sperry Univac (which later became Unisys), and was released for the VS/9 operating system.
The Univac/Fujitsu EDT editor is a line-based editor, in that it does not use function keys. Unlike editors such as Teco or Emacs, the program is always in text-entry mode, similar to today's word processors.
Commands are sent to the editor by typing in text in the same manner as entering regular text, but the first character of the line (other than a space) is the command symbol, which defaults to the at sign ("@"). When a line begins with an @, the remainder of the line is used as a text-editing command. To enter a line of text beginning with @ which is not an editor command, it is necessary to prefix the line with a second @ sign, in which case, the first @ will be stripped off, and the line taken as text rather than a command. It is also possible to issue a command that the command indicator be changed from @ to a different character. One use for this feature is to write scripts to have EDT perform various actions upon another file. The command set of the editor includes the ability to create unattended programmable editing sessions through the use of test, comparison, branch and looping functions.
If line numbers are not present in the original file, the editor supplies a pseudo-line number for use in editing each line. Because of the ISAM file format which supports an 8-character index key, line numbers consist of a floating-point number in the range of 0.0000 to 9999.9999. The usual line number supplied by EDT starts at 1.000 and is incremented by 1 as each new line was added. Lines can be inserted between other lines by using a fractional number as a command prefix. For example, line 1 of a file would be 1.0000, line 2 would be 2.0000, and to insert a line between 1 and 2, one could type @1.5: followed by the text of the line; the colon would be discarded and the line would be inserted at 1.5000, between 1 and 2. A renumber command is available to renumber all or part of the file.
Commands in EDT generally consist of a command (which is case insensitive), which may be followed by a range of line numbers that the command was to act upon, and a subfunction indicating how the command is to act. The range was either expressed as a single line number, a range of lines separated by a dash, (e.g. 5-8 would mean any line numbered 5.0000 through 8.9999 inclusive), or a group of lines, each separated by a comma. Some symbols are available to represent various values, such as the ampersand "&" or the word "all" representing every line in the file.
For example, to alter every "To" in a document to the word "From" you would type in
@ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of the American television musical drama series Nashville, created by Callie Khouri, it premiered on December 15, 2016, on CMT, the first on the network. The show features an ensemble cast with Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere in the leading roles as two country music superstars, Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes. The season consisted of 22 episodes that were aired in two parts of eleven episodes each, with Britton appearing in the first part only.
As with seasons three and four, the episodes are named after songs from a variety of country artists, including Sara Evans ("A Little Bit Stronger"), Garth Brooks ("If Tomorrow Never Comes"), Carrie Underwood ("The Night Before (Life Goes On)"), Sheryl Crow ("A Change Would Do You Good"), and Dixie Chicks ("Not Ready to Make Nice").
Production
On May 12, 2016, ABC cancelled the series after four seasons. On June 10, 2016, it was announced that CMT had picked up the series for a fifth season of 22 episodes. The pick-up was assisted by $11 million in economic incentives: $8.5 million comes via the State of Tennessee Film Office, $1 million from the City of Nashville, $1 million from the Nashville Convention & Visitor Corp and $500,000 from Ryman Hospitality. The cast had the first table read on September 1, 2016. Filming began on September 7, 2016. Lily Mariye directed the fourth episode, which began filming on October 10, 2016. Production was well underway by November 2016, with filming on the sixth episode beginning on Friday, November 4. On March 16, 2017, the cast celebrated completing filming on the 100th episode. Filming on the seventeenth episode was taking place on April 26, 2017. Sam Palladio filmed his final scenes for the season on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. The season wrap party was held on June 4, 2017. Filming wrapped on June 8, 2017.
On December 1, 2016, it was announced that the first hour of the two-hour season premiere would premiere December 15, 2016. The sneak peek airing of the first episode aired simultaneously on CMT, MTV, and TV Land. The double episode season premiere totaled a 0.8 demo as it aired across two networks, CMT and Nick at Night. New episodes first air on CMT, and then air again on Nick at Night, the same day.
Cast
The fifth season featured two main cast members see their exit. Will Chase and Aubrey Peeples were announced to not be returning to the series in June 2016, although Chase did make a guest appearance.
Main
Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes
Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes
Clare Bowen as Scarlett O'Connor
Chris Carmack as Will Lexington
Charles Esten as Deacon Claybourne
Jonathan Jackson as Avery Barkley
Sam Palladio as Gunnar Scott
Lennon Stella as Maddie Conrad
Maisy Stella as Daphne Conrad
Cameron Scoggins as Zach Welles
Kaitlin Doubleday as Jessie Caine
Recurring
David Alford as Bucky Dawes
Ed Amatrudo as Glenn Goodman
Kourtney Hansen as Emily
Melvin Kearney as Bo
Andi Rayne and Nora Gill as Cadence Barkley
Rach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu%20Forum | Keiretsu Forum, which was founded in 2000 by Randy Williams, is a private group of international members comprising an angel investor network. The network has 53 chapters in cities such as San Francisco California, Seattle Washington, New York City, Paris France, Istanbul Turkey, and Chennai in India.
Investor Capital Expo
In 2008, Williams started the Keiretsu Forum Investor Capital Expo, which brings together angel investors and entrepreneurs looking for funding, and which takes place every year in Silicon Valley/San Francisco for the Northern California Investor Capital Expo, Investor Capital Expos have been hosted in cities including: Stockholm, Seattle, Sydney, Toronto, Prague, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Referral Fees Controversy
Keiretsu Forum operates using a referral model that charges entrepreneurs and startups significant fees for the opportunity to pitch to the network members, a practice that is strongly discouraged in Angel Capital Association guidelines. In 2009, tech investor and author Jason Calacanis criticized several investor networks, including Keiretsu, as operating pay to play schemes. He also established Open Angel Forum as an alternative investor network that doesn't charge fees. Williams subsequently clarified Keiretsu's policy of waiving fees for startup companies that have limited capital and no revenue.
References
External links
Keiretsu Forum - official website
(http://www.investorcapitalexpo.net Investor Capital Expo - official website)
Angel investors
Organizations established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itumbiara%20denudata | Itumbiara denudata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 2005. It is known from Costa Rica.
References
denudata
Beetles described in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%201998 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 1998, there were 12 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "The Memory Remains" by American heavy metal band Metallica, which spent the first four weeks of the year at number one. The final number one of the year was Resurrection, an extended play by American industrial metal band Fear Factory.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 1998 was "The Unforgiven II" by Metallica, which spent a total of ten weeks at number one during the year. The band also spent five weeks at number one with "The Memory Remains". "Lonely, Cryin', Only" by Therapy? and "Pressure On" by Roger Taylor spent six weeks each at number one; Sonic Youth's "Sunday" spent five weeks at number one; Marilyn Manson's Remix & Repent and Whale's "Crying at Airports" were both number one for four weeks; "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses and "Choke" by Sepultura spent three weeks each at number one; and "Mungo City" by Spacehog, "Wishlist" by Pearl Jam and Resurrection by Fear Factory spent two weeks each at number one on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart during 1998.
Chart history
See also
1998 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1998
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
1998 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS%20%28algorithm%29 | KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid) is a family of pseudorandom number generators introduced by George Marsaglia. Starting from 1998 Marsaglia posted on various newsgroups including sci.math, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.fortran and sci.stat.math several versions of the generators. All KISS generators combine three or four independent random number generators with a view to improving the quality of randomness. KISS generators produce 32-bit or 64-bit random integers, from which random floating-point numbers can be constructed if desired. The original 1993 generator is based on the combination of a linear congruential generator and of two linear feedback shift-register generators. It has a period 295, good speed and good statistical properties; however, it fails the LinearComplexity test in the Crush and BigCrush tests of the TestU01 suite. A newer version from 1999 is based on a linear congruential generator, a 3-shift linear feedback shift-register and two multiply-with-carry generators. It is 10–20% slower than the 1993 version but has a larger period 2123 and passes all tests in TestU01. In 2009 Marsaglia presented a version based on 64-bit integers (appropriate for 64-bit processors) which combines a multiply-with-carry generator, a Xorshift generator and a linear congruential generator. It has a period of around 2250 (around 1075).
References
Further reading
Pseudorandom number generators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchete%20%28magazine%29 | Manchete was a Brazilian weekly news magazine published from 1952 to 2000 by Bloch Editores. Founded by Adolpho Bloch, the magazine's name would be given to the defunct television network Rede Manchete. Manchete was considered one of the main magazines of its time, second only to O Cruzeiro. The magazine was inspired by publications such as Paris Match and Life, relying on photojournalism. Among the writers who collaborated for Manchete were Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Rubem Braga, Manuel Bandeira, Paulo Mendes Campos, Fernando Sabino, David Nasser and Nelson Rodrigues. French photographer Jean Manzon was responsible by the magazine's main pictures.
In 2000, with the bankruptcy of Bloch Editores, the magazine's name and rights were bought by Marcos Dvoskin. Manchete has been republished only sporadically, in special editions.
References
External links
Digitalized editions of Manchete at the Brazilian National Library website (in Portuguese)
1952 establishments in Brazil
2000 disestablishments in Brazil
Defunct magazines published in Brazil
Magazines established in 1952
Magazines disestablished in 2000
Mass media in Rio de Janeiro (city)
News magazines published in South America
Portuguese-language magazines
Weekly magazines published in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural%20Support%20Programmes%20Network | The Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) is the largest development network in Pakistan with an outreach to over 34 million rural Pakistanis. It consists of a network of 12 Rural Support Programmes (RSPs). The RSP’s rely on a community driven model of development. Communities are mobilised around their needs and organised to stimulate more effective demand for services.
Philosophy and approach
The centre piece of the RSP approach is social mobilisation of the poor in order to enable them to participate directly in decisions that affect their lives and prospects. Communities are mobilised and asked to indicate their priorities through a process of dialogue, catalysed by the programmes. They are then encouraged to assume responsibility for implementing and maintaining the projects, reflecting their own priorities, with technical and financial support being extended by the programmes.
The model upholds civil society as central to addressing the economic, socio-political and cultural causes of poverty. It also subverts the conventional model of social development, which assumed that either central government or outside agencies would lift people out of poverty.
Role of RSPN
The RSPN is a strategic platform for the RSP's. It provides capacity building support to them and assists them in policy advocacy and donor linkages. Although all the RSP’s are said to be federated under the Rural Support Programme Network. Each RSP is an autonomous organization that develops programmes tailored to local needs, with each RSP having an independent board of directors.
Network
The Rural Support Programmes Network is a network of 12 RSP namely
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (1982)
Sarhad Rural Support Programme (1989)
Balochistan Rural Support Programme (1991)
National Rural Support Programme (1992)
Institute of Rural Management (1993)
Ghazi Barotha Taraqiati Idara (1995)
Lachi Poverty Reduction Programme (1997)
Tardeep Rural Development Programme (1997)
Punjab Rural Support Programme (1998)
Sindh Graduates Association (2001)
Sindh Rural Support Organisation (2003)
Azad Jammu and Kashmir Rural Support Programme (2005)
References
Non-profit organisations based in Pakistan
Rural development in Pakistan
Community-building organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread%20block%20%28CUDA%20programming%29 | A thread block is a programming abstraction that represents a group of threads that can be executed serially or in parallel. For better process and data mapping, threads are grouped into thread blocks. The number of threads in a thread block was formerly limited by the architecture to a total of 512 threads per block, but as of March 2010, with compute capability 2.x and higher, blocks may contain up to 1024 threads. The threads in the same thread block run on the same stream processor. Threads in the same block can communicate with each other via shared memory, barrier synchronization or other synchronization primitives such as atomic operations.
Multiple blocks are combined to form a grid. All the blocks in the same grid contain the same number of threads. The number of threads in a block is limited, but grids can be used for computations that require a large number of thread blocks to operate in parallel and to use all available multiprocessors.
CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model that higher level languages can use to exploit parallelism. In CUDA, the kernel is executed with the aid of threads. The thread is an abstract entity that represents the execution of the kernel. A kernel is a function that compiles to run on a special device. Multi threaded applications use many such threads that are running at the same time, to organize parallel computation. Every thread has an index, which is used for calculating memory address locations and also for taking control decisions.
Dimensions
CUDA operates on a heterogeneous programming model which is used to run host device application programs. It has an execution model that is similar to OpenCL. In this model, we start executing an application on the host device which is usually a CPU core. The device is a throughput oriented device, i.e., a GPU core which performs parallel computations. Kernel functions are used to do these parallel executions. Once these kernel functions are executed the control is passed back to the host device that resumes serial execution.
As many parallel applications involve multidimensional data, it is convenient to organize thread blocks into 1D, 2D or 3D arrays of threads. The blocks in a grid must be able to be executed independently, as communication or cooperation between blocks in a grid is not possible. 'When a kernel is launched the number of threads per thread block, and the number of thread blocks is specified, this, in turn, defines the total number of CUDA threads launched.' The maximum x, y and z dimensions of a block are 1024, 1024 and 64, and it should be allocated such that x × y × z ≤ 1024, which is the maximum number of threads per block. Blocks can be organized into one, two or three-dimensional grids of up to 231-1, 65,535 and 65,535 blocks in the x, y and z dimensions respectively. Unlike the maximum threads per block, there is not a blocks per grid limit distinct from the maximum grid dimensions.
Indexing
1D-indexing
Every |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSLA | HSLA may refer to:
High-strength low-alloy steel
Hue, saturation, lightness, alpha; see HSL and HSV
High Speed Logarithmic Arithmetic, a European logarithmic research computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QxBranch | QxBranch, Inc. (QxBranch) is a data analysis and quantum computing software company, based in Washington, D.C. The company provides data analytics services and research and development for quantum computing technology. On July 11, 2019, QxBranch announced that it had been acquired by Rigetti Computing, a developer of quantum integrated circuits used for quantum computers.
Services
QxBranch provides predictive analytics services to firms in the banking and finance industries. The company also develops software products for quantum computing technologies, including developer tools and interfaces for quantum computers, as well as quantum computing simulators. Additionally, the company provides consulting and research and development for businesses that may be improved through quantum computing methods, including in the development of adiabatic quantum computing methods for machine learning applications.
History
QxBranch was founded in 2014 as a joint spin-off of Shoal Group and The Tauri Group to commercialize quantum computing technology. Shoal Group (named Aerospace Concepts at the time) had a research agreement with Lockheed Martin to access a D-Wave Two quantum computer, and transitioned the access and associated technology to help found QxBranch.
In August 2014, QxBranch was selected as one of eight participants for Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab program in Hong Kong.
In May 2015, Dr. Ray O Johnson, former Chief Technology Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation, joined QxBranch as executive director.
In January 2016, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull toured QxBranch's facilities in Washington, D.C. for a demonstration of quantum computing applications.
In November 2016, QxBranch, in partnership with UBS, was announced as a winning bid under the Innovate UK's Quantum Technologies Innovation Fund under the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme. The partnership is working on developing quantum algorithms for foreign exchange market trading and arbitrage.
In April 2017, QxBranch, in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, released a quantum computing simulator aiming to enable software and algorithm development to assess the feasibility and performance of applications ahead of the development of silicon-based quantum computers. The simulator was modeled on the hardware being developed by the University of New South Wales and made accessible as part of the bank’s internal cloud-based systems, allowing developers to design and evaluate software and algorithms concurrently with the hardware's on-going development.
In February 2018, QxBranch demonstrated a quantum deep learning network that simulated the 2016 US Presidential Election, resulting in slightly improved forecasts of the election outcome over those of forecasting site Five Thirty Eight.
In April 2018, IBM announced a collaboration with QxBranch and other companies for research access to its IBM Quantum Experience quantum computers.
Locations
Qx |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20Notre-Dame%20%28Yvelines%29 | Institut Notre-Dame, called IND is a private school network in the Yvelines department of France, in the Paris metropolitan area. It has three schools which are based in St-Germain-en-Laye and Sartrouville.
History
It originated as the Institut national de St-Germain-en-Laye, which first opened in 1795. The current iteration, as the Institut Note-Dame, first opened in 1948.
This network is representing by three schools :
- Primaire Notre-Dame in St-Germain-en-Laye (Maternelle/Primaire)- Secondaire Notre-Dame in St-Germain-en-Laye (Collège/Lycée)- Lycée Jean-Paul II in Sartrouville
References
External links
Institut Notre-Dame
Private schools in France
Schools in Yvelines
Secondary schools in France
Lycées in Yvelines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severi%20Alanne | Vieno Severin "Severi" Alanne (October 23, 1879 – May 26, 1960) was a Finnish-American chemical engineer, dictionary compiler, socialist journalist, and consumers' co-operative organizer. Alanne is best remembered as a director and publicist for the large and popular Finnish-American consumers' co-operative in the Upper Midwest region of the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
Biography
Early years
Vieno Severin Alanne, known to friends and family as Severi Alanne, was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland, on October 23, 1879. He was well educated, attending both preparatory school and a classical lyceum in his native Hämeenlinna, from which he graduated in 1897. After leaving the Hämeenlinna Lyceum, Alanne relocated to Helsinki to attend the Helsinki Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1902. He remained in the field of organic chemistry for two more years, working as an assistant to professor Gusst Komppa while continuing his post-graduate studies.
Upon completion of his graduate studies in 1903, Alanne taught as a professor of electro-chemistry at the Helsinki Polytechnic Institute and as an instructor of chemistry and later department head at a vocational school in Helsinki, remaining there until 1905.
An opponent of Tsarist autocracy in the Russian empire, of which Finland was a part, Alanne joined the Social Democratic Party of Finland (Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue, SSP) in 1905. He was forced to emigrate from the country following the defeat of the Revolution of 1905.
Career
In the United States, Alanne worked for two years as the manager of a coal mine in Hanna, Wyoming, and for two additional years as a research chemist for the Viscol Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He later took a position as an editor of the Finnish-language socialist daily newspaper Työmies (The Worker), located in Hancock, Michigan.
In 1919, Alanne published a major book through the Työmies Publishing House, a large and comprehensive Finnish-English translating dictionary. Alanne's work was so well-regarded that the dictionary survived to see publication a posthumous second edition, published in Finland in 1968.
Alanne found his lasting professional contribution in the field of consumer cooperation, becoming director of the growing Co-operative Central Exchange (CCE) of Superior, Wisconsin in 1920 — a position he held until 1925. At that time, Alanne moved on to fulfill a similar function for the umbrella organization of which the CCE was part, the Northern States Cooperative League, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Alanne remained at that post until 1936, after which he returned to Superior to work in the educational department of the Central Co-operative Wholesale, the name by which the CCE was then known. His employment there finally ended in 1943 with his retirement at the age of 64.
Political career
Alanne made one run for public office, serving as the candidate of the Workers (Communist) Party for Governor of Wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstd | Zstandard, commonly known by the name of its reference implementation zstd, is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook.
Zstd is the reference implementation in C. Version 1 of this implementation was released as open-source software on 31 August 2016.
Features
Zstandard was designed to give a compression ratio comparable to that of the DEFLATE algorithm (developed in 1991 and used in the original ZIP and gzip programs), but faster, especially for decompression. It is tunable with compression levels ranging from negative 7 (fastest) to 22 (slowest in compression speed, but best compression ratio).
Starting from version 1.3.2 (October 2017), zstd optionally implements very long range search and deduplication (, 128 MiB window) similar to rzip or lrzip.
Compression speed can vary by a factor of 20 or more between the fastest and slowest levels, while decompression is uniformly fast, varying by less than 20% between the fastest and slowest levels. Zstandard command-line has an "adaptive" () mode that varies compression level depending on I/O conditions, mainly how fast it can write the output.
Zstd at its maximum compression level gives a compression ratio close to lzma,
lzham, and ppmx, and Zstandard reaches the current Pareto frontier, as it decompresses faster than any other currently available algorithm with similar or better compression ratio.
Dictionaries can have a large impact on the compression ratio of small files, so Zstandard can use a user-provided compression dictionary. It also offers a training mode, able to generate a dictionary from a set of samples. In particular, one dictionary can be loaded to process large sets of files with redundancy between files, but not necessarily within each file, e.g., log files.
Design
Zstandard combines a dictionary-matching stage (LZ77) with a large search window and a fast entropy-coding stage. It uses both Huffman coding (used for entries in the Literals section) and finite-state entropy (FSE) - a fast tabled version of ANS, tANS, used for entries in the Sequences section. Because of the way that FSE carries over state between symbols, decompression involves processing symbols within the Sequences section of each block in reverse order (from last to first).
Usage
The Linux kernel has included Zstandard since November 2017 (version 4.14) as a compression method for the btrfs and squashfs filesystems.
In 2017, Allan Jude integrated Zstandard into the FreeBSD kernel, and it was subsequently integrated as a compressor option for core dumps (both user programs and kernel panics). It was also used to create a proof-of-concept OpenZFS compression method which was integrated in 2020.
The AWS Redshift and RocksDB databases include support for field compression using Zstandard.
In March 2018, Canonical tested the use of zstd as a deb package compression method by default for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Compared with xz compression of deb packages, zstd at lev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20palladium%20production | This article summarizes the world palladium production by country.
This is a list of countries by palladium production in kilograms, based upon data from the United States Geological Survey. In 2019, the world production of palladium totaled 210,000 kilograms—down 5% from 220,000 kg in 2018.
2010 - 2019
* indicates "Natural resources of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
2000 - 2009
1990 - 1999
References
Palladium
Production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking%20Solo | Drinking Solo () is a South Korean drama starring Ha Seok-jin and Park Ha-sun. It aired on the cable network tvN for 16 episodes from September 5 to October 25, 2016.
Plot
This drama is about the slice-of-life and daily activities around the teachers, students, staffs of a private institution that prepares for civil service exam around the area of Seoul's Noryangjin. The characters like to drink alone after work for their own reasons. The story also depicts the romance between Jin Jung-suk and Park Ha-na. Jin Jung Suk (Ha Seok-jin) is a good looking and professional star lecturer. Meanwhile, Park Ha-na (Park Ha-sun) is a rookie lecturer who struggles to survive in the private institute world.
Cast
Main cast
Ha Seok-jin as Jin Jung-suk (Jin-sang)
Park Ha-sun as Park Ha-na
Noryangjin Institute's teachers
Hwang Woo-seul-hye as Hwang Jin-yi
Min Jin-woong as Min Jin-woong
Kim Won-hae as Kim Won-hae
Noryangjin Institute's 9th grade civil service students
Gong Myung as Jin Gong-myung
Key as Kim Ki-bum
Jung Chae-yeon as Jung Chae-yeon
Kim Dong-young as Kim Dong-young
Guest appearances
Ha Yeon-soo as Hwang Joo-yeon (Kim Dong-young's girlfriend) (ep. 1, 2 & 16)
Kim Hee-won as Jin Jung-suk's former school director (ep. 1)
Choi Min-ho as Minho from Shinee (Kim Ki-bum's high school classmate) (ep. 5)
Jeon So-min as Kim Won-hae's sister-in-law and Jin Jung-suk's blind date partner (ep.10)
Jo Kwon as Kwon (fellow student at Noryangjin) (ep. 11)
Jang Do-yeon as Seo Do yeon (Korean Professor) (ep. 12)
Kim Ji-seok as guy at the club named Jin-sang (ep. 13)
Jang Woo-hyuk a guy at the club (ep. 13)
Lee Se-young as class alumni (ep. 14)
DIA (ep. 15)
Lee Tae-kyung as graduate from class #3 (ep. 14)
Kim Hyun-mok as College student
Lee Yong-yi Min Jin-woong's mother, Kim Mi-kyung
Original soundtrack
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Background Music
Ratings
In this table, the represent the lowest ratings and the represent the highest.
Awards and nominations
Production
First script reading took place June 28, 2016 at CJ E&M Center in Sangam-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
International broadcast
References
External links
TVN (South Korean TV channel) television dramas
Korean-language television shows
2016 South Korean television series debuts
2016 South Korean television series endings
South Korean romantic comedy television series
South Korean cooking television series
Television shows set in Seoul
Television series about alcohol
Television series produced in Seoul
Television series about educators
Examinations and testing in fiction
Television series by CJ E&M |
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