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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Kamau%20Macharia | Samuel Kamau Macharia (born 1942), also known as S. K. Macharia, is a Kenyan, founder and chair of Royal Media Services, one of the largest private radio and television networks in Kenya. The flagship outlets of Royal Media Services are Citizen TV and Radio Citizen. In 2012, Macharia was on the top-10 list in Forbes magazine of African millionaires to watch. Macharia was on the 2013 Africa Report of the 50 most influential Africans. He was honoured with the 2015 Eastern Africa Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award.
Early life
Macharia was born in Ndakaini Village, Murang'a County in 1942. He had three sisters and was the second born. His parents were squatters in Subukia where they worked on British settler plantations under the colonial government. Macharia's mother died when he was five years old. The family moved to Arusha in Tanzania. As a young boy, Macharia kept the company of other young Maasai herders and would traverse long distances with them in search of pastures.
Education
Macharia enrolled in Standard 1 at Ndakaini Primary School in 1954. He was later enrolled in Gituru Intermediate School, where he took the Kenya African Preliminary Examination (KAPE) in 1958. He spent a year as a primary school teacher at Makomboki Primary School before enrolling at Kahuhia Teachers Training College. After completing a two-year term at the college, he qualified as a trained teacher, and was transferred to Gituru Primary School in 1961.
He applied for the Kennedy Airlifts and was accepted in the 1962 group. It is claimed that his family could not raise the 4,000 shillings required for the plane ticket to the United States. It is said that he had to travel for nearly two months by road from Kenya to Benghazi, Libya, where he took a ship to England and then a flight to the USA.
On arrival, he enrolled in Seattle Technical College and completed his high school education two years later. Macharia earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Seattle Pacific University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Washington. He attained a Master of Science degree in Accounting/Finance, a Master of Arts degree in Accounting and was certified as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
Work
Macharia returned to Kenya in 1969 and was employed as a Provincial Local Government Finance Officer (Supernumerary) in the Ministry of Local Government. He worked with the Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC) as well as Kenya Industrial Estates (KIE). In 1973, he was appointed as head of a task force that was charged with auditing and eventually liquidating the Agricultural Development Corporation.
Business
Madhupaper
In 1979, Macharia left the Public Service to run Madhupaper International Kenya Limited, a tissue production company he had started three years earlier. By 1985, Madhupaper had 300 employees and its main product Rosy was becoming a household brand. Madhupaper was the only tiss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeIN%20Sports%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29 | beIN Sports USA is a pay television sports network which primarily airs top level soccer, featuring exclusive coverage of Ligue 1, along with content from other leagues in Europe. In addition, BeIN Sports airs matches from such sports as rugby, auto racing, handball, motorcycle racing, tennis, and volleyball. A companion network, BeIN Sports USA Español, carries simulcasts or a different schedule of events primarily in Spanish, with both networks offering secondary Spanish or English commentary via the second audio program option. It is a subsidiary of the Qatari Media Network beIN.
History
BeIN Sports USA launched on the satellite provider DirecTV on August 16, 2012, coinciding with the start of the European soccer leagues 2012–13 season. beIN launched on the satellite Dish network the following day before being added to cable giant Comcast on September 6, 2012. Verizon FiOS added BeIN Sports in March 2013.
In 2016, BeIN Sports reached a deal with Conference USA to carry select football, basketball, baseball, and softball games, This agreement ended after the 2018-19 season and was not renewed. Also in 2016, BeIN Sports began showing matches from the North American Soccer League.
In August 2018, several major television providers dropped the network, including AT&T (both DirecTV and U-verse), Verizon Fios, and Xfinity.
In October 2018, the WTA Tour returned its broadcast rights back to Tennis Channel. Its contract with BeIN (as part of a wider international deal) was criticized by fans for limiting the reach of its events, citing inconsistent and intermittent scheduling due to conflicts with international soccer, and decreasing carriage.
In 2019, BeIN Sports launched BeIN Sports Xtra, a 24/7 live stream extension of the BeIN Sports brand that allows fans to view select games for free and airs other sports related programs, such as highlights; it also has a complementary service in Spanish, BeIN Sports Xtra ñ. The service is available on FuboTV, Sling TV, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Vizio, Redbox, Samsung TV Plus, Fanatiz, Klowd TV, Xumo, and is available through over-the-air television stations in select markets.
Based on numbers from Nielsen, Variety ranked beIN Sports as the lowest-rated broadcast or cable network in the United States in 2021 based on total viewers, with a 40% decline year-over-year.
Programming
Current
European soccer
France: Ligue 1, Ligue 2, Trophée des Champions
Turkey: Süper Lig
South American soccer
Copa Libertadores
Copa Sudamericana
Recopa Sudamericana
Brasil Global Tour
Handball
EHF Champions League
Professional wrestling
Major League Wrestling
MLW Fusion
Battle Riot III
Motorsports
FIM Speedway Grand Prix
Combat Sports
BYB Extreme Bare Knuckle Fighting
Former
European soccer
Spain: Copa del Rey (exclude final) (until 2018–19)
France: Coupe de la Ligue (until 2019–20)
Sweden: Swedish Cup (semifinals and final)
Spain: La Liga 2012-2021
Italy: Serie A 2012-2017
England: EFL Cup 2012-201 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeIN%20Sports%20%28French%20TV%20channel%29 | beIN Sports France is a French network of sports channels owned by Qatari Sports Investments (an affiliate of beIN Media Group) and operated by Mediapro. It is the French version of the global sports network beIN Sports.
History
In 2011, Al Jazeera Sport acquired the rights of broadcasting some of the French football league matches inside France and full marketing rights for the French league outside France.
Monday, 5 December 2011 UEFA announced on its website that Al Jazeera Sport awarded media rights in France for UEFA Champions League 2012–15.
According to the UEFA website, each season Al Jazeera Sport will broadcast 133 matches live across its television channels, internet and mobile services. The broadcaster has also committed to significant pre-match preview programming and highlights on both UEFA Champions League matchnights.
BeIN Sport 1 launched on 1 June 2012 at 19h and BeIN Sport 2 launched on 27 July 2012 at 20h. BeIN Sport Max additional channels were launched on 10 August 2012. This was the launch of the BeIN brand.
Their programmes are operated by Mediapro.
On 1 January 2014, beIN Sport became beIN Sports, to show that it is multisports and not only football.
beIN Sports 3 was launched on 15 September 2014, replacing beIN Sports Max 3.
Programming
Football
Europe: UEFA European Championship, UEFA European Under-21 Championship (exc. 2021)
France: Coupe de France
Germany: Bundesliga, DFL-Supercup
Italy: Serie A (until 2021)
Spain: La Liga
United Kingdom: EFL Championship, EFL Cup, FA Community Shield, FA Cup
Turkey: Süper Lig
South America: Copa América
Africa: CAF World Cup Qualifiers, Africa Cup of Nations, Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers, CAF Champions League
2018 World Cup, 2022 World Cup
International Champions Cup
Brasil Global Tour
Rugby union
Pro14
European Rugby Champions Cup
European Rugby Challenge Cup
Handball
IHF
Europe: EHF Champions League, Women's EHF Champions League, European Men's Handball Championship, European Women's Handball Championship
France: LNH Division 1, Coupe de la Ligue, Trophée des champions, Coupe de France, Coupe de France de handball féminin
Germany: Handball-Bundesliga
American Football
NFL
Baseball
MLB
Basketball
NBA
Beach volleyball
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
Cycling
UCI Road World Championships
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Rugby league
Super League
National Rugby League
State of Origin series
Rugby League World Cup
Swimming
FINA Swimming World Cup
Open de France de natation
French Swimming Federation Golden Tour
Championnats de France de natation
Tennis
Wimbledon
ATP World Tour 250 series
Open 13
Open Parc Auvergne-Rhône-Alpe
Davis Cup
Fed Cup
WTA Tour
Track and field
IAAF World Challenge
Volleyball
Italy: Italian Volleyball League
2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship
2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
References
BeIN Sports
Television stations in France
Sports television networks in France
Television channels and stations establis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20Science%20in%20Business%20Analytics | A Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) is an interdisciplinary STEM graduate professional degree that blends concepts from data science, computer science, statistics, business intelligence, and information theory geared towards commercial applications. Students generally come from a variety of backgrounds including computer science, engineering, mathematics, economics, and business. University programs mandate coding proficiency in at least one language. The languages most commonly used include R, Python, SAS, and SQL. Applicants generally have technical proficiency before starting the program. Analytics concentrations in MBA programs are less technical and focus on developing working knowledge of statistical applications rather than proficiency.
Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning.[1] Business analytics focuses on developing new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods. In contrast, business intelligence traditionally focuses on using a consistent set of metrics to both measure past performance and guide business planning, which is also based on data and statistical methods. Business analytics can be used to leverage prescriptive analytics towards automation.
Origin
The MSBA was a response to the increasing need of complex data analysis beyond traditional use of spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. Since 2001, the increasing volume (amount of data), velocity (speed of data in and out), and variety (range of data types and sources) has created a vacuum for talent. Harvard Business Review noted: “Much of the current enthusiasm for big data focuses on technologies that make taming it possible, including Hadoop (the most widely used framework for distributed file system processing) and related open-source tools, cloud computing, and data visualization,” the article says. “While those are important breakthroughs, at least as important are the people with the skill set (and the mind-set) to put them to good use. On this front, demand has raced ahead of supply. Indeed, the shortage of data scientists is becoming a serious constraint in some sectors.”
See also
Big Data
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Predictive Analytics
Decision Theory
ETL
Data Management
Data Warehouse
Operations research
Network science
Agile
References
Master's degrees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granularity%20%28parallel%20computing%29 | In parallel computing, granularity (or grain size) of a task is a measure of the amount of work (or computation) which is performed by that task.
Another definition of granularity takes into account the communication overhead between multiple processors or processing elements. It defines granularity as the ratio of computation time to communication time, wherein computation time is the time required to perform the computation of a task and communication time is the time required to exchange data between processors.
If is the computation time and denotes the communication time, then the granularity of a task can be calculated as:
Granularity is usually measured in terms of the number of instructions which are executed in a particular task. Alternately, granularity can also be specified in terms of the execution time of a program, combining the computation time and communication time.
Types of parallelism
Depending on the amount of work which is performed by a parallel task, parallelism can be classified into three categories: fine-grained, medium-grained and coarse-grained parallelism.
Fine-grained parallelism
In fine-grained parallelism, a program is broken down to a large number of small tasks. These tasks are assigned individually to many processors. The amount of work associated with a parallel task is low and the work is evenly distributed among the processors. Hence, fine-grained parallelism facilitates load balancing.
As each task processes less data, the number of processors required to perform the complete processing is high. This in turn, increases the communication and synchronization overhead.
Fine-grained parallelism is best exploited in architectures which support fast communication. Shared memory architecture which has a low communication overhead is most suitable for fine-grained parallelism.
It is difficult for programmers to detect parallelism in a program, therefore, it is usually the compilers' responsibility to detect fine-grained parallelism.
An example of a fine-grained system (from outside the parallel computing domain) is the system of neurons in our brain.
Connection Machine (CM-2) and J-Machine are examples of fine-grain parallel computers that have grain size in the range of 4-5 μs.
Coarse-grained parallelism
In coarse-grained parallelism, a program is split into large tasks. Due to this, a large amount of computation takes place in processors. This might result in load imbalance, wherein certain tasks process the bulk of the data while others might be idle. Further, coarse-grained parallelism fails to exploit the parallelism in the program as most of the computation is performed sequentially on a processor. The advantage of this type of parallelism is low communication and synchronization overhead.
Message-passing architecture takes a long time to communicate data among processes which makes it suitable for coarse-grained parallelism.
Cray Y-MP is an example of coarse-grained parallel computer which ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstar%20Duets | Superstar Duets is a 2016 Philippine television reality show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Jennylyn Mercado, it premiered on September 3, 2016 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up replacing Lip Sync Battle Philippines. The show concluded on December 17, 2016 with a total of 16 episodes.
Cast
Host
Jennylyn Mercado
Regine Velasquez
Judges
Allan K.
Aicelle Santos
Christian Bautista
Contestants
Michael "Pekto" Nacua
Joross Gamboa
Jerald Napoles
Rita Daniela
Denise Barbacena
Divine Aucina
Nar Cabico
Jeffrey "Osang" Soliven
International star impersonators
International star impersonator performed in the wildcard round.
The Top 5 celebrity contestants were also the international star impersonators on this episode.
International star impersonator performed in the grand finals.
Preliminary rounds
Color key
Round 1
The contestants will be divided into two batch. Each batch will have two contestants who got the lowest score placed in the bottom group . Bottom group contestants will face the elimination round while the safe contestants will fight for immunity.
Round 2
The same rule applies for this round except for the immunity round.
Round 3
The same rule applies for this round except for the third elimination wherein each of the bottom group contestants will have their Celebrity resbaker.
Round 4
The five remaining contestants will perform. The contestant with lowest star rating from the judges will be eliminated from the competition.
Wildcard round
The 4 eliminated contestants perform again for a second chance to be back at the competition. The contestant with highest star rating will re-enter the competition. All songs performed on this episode are songs of Aegis.
Finals
Color key
Round 5
The Final 5 contestants will impersonate an international star of their choice instead of having an impersonator partner as duet. Each celebrity contestant will be paired to OPM icons. The contestant with lowest score will be eliminated from the competition.
Quarter finals
The Final 4 contestants perform. The celebrity contestant with lowest star rating will be eliminated from the competition. All songs performed are songs of Regine Velasquez.
Semi finals
The final 3 contestants perform. The celebrity contestant with lowest star rating will be eliminated from the competition. Ai-Ai delas Alas served as a judge.
Grand finals
The grand finals consists of 3 rounds wherein the final 2 contestants will perform. On the first round, they will have a concert style duet with Lani Misalucha. The second round will be video mirroring challenge wherein they will copy a music video content. And for the third round, the final 2 will have a duet with international superstar of their choice. Ai-Ai delas Alas served as the 4th judge.
Elimination chart
Ratings
Urban Luzon and NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines while Kantar Media Philippines provide Nationwide ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bachelorette%20%28Australian%20season%202%29 | The second season of The Bachelorette Australia premiered on Network Ten on 21 September 2016. The season features Georgia Love, a 27-year-old journalist from Melbourne, Victoria, originally from Tasmania, courting 18 men.
Contestants
The season began with 16 contestants. In episode 5, two "intruders" were brought into the competition, bringing the total number of contestants to 18.
Future appearances
Bachelor Winter Games
Courtney will represent The Bachelor Australia in The Bachelor Winter Games; a Winter Olympics themed spin-off is the American Bachelor Franchise.
Call-Out Order
Color Key
Episodes
Episode 1
Original airdate: 21 September 2016
Episode 2
Original airdate: 22 September 2016
Episode 3
Original airdate: 28 September 2016
Episode 4
Original airdate: 29 September 2016
Episode 5
Original airdate: 5 October 2016
Episode 6
Original airdate: 6 October 2016
Episode 7
Original airdate: 12 October 2016
Episode 8
Original airdate: 13 October 2016
Episode 9
Original airdate: 19 October 2016
Episode 10
Original airdate: 20 October 2016
Episode 11
Original airdate: 26 October 2016
Episode 12
Original airdate: 27 October 2016
Ratings
Notes
References
2016 Australian television seasons
Australian (season 02)
Television shows filmed in Australia
Television shows filmed in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20MicroFinance%20Bank%20%28Tajikistan%29 | First MicroFinance Bank-Tajikistan (FMFB-T) is a commercial bank of the Aga Khan Development Network involved in microfinancing operations. The Bank was established in 2003, and has its head office at Dushanbe.
The First MicroFinanceBank provides a comprehensive range of financial services to small and medium enterprises (SME) and microfinance customers to help the development of its customers and the economy – by increasing access to affordable credit, improving savings products and providing efficient and cost-effective remittance services.
See also
First MicroFinance Bank-Afghanistan
First MicroFinance Bank-Pakistan
References
External links
Banks of Tajikistan
Aga Khan Development Network
Microfinance companies of Asia
Microfinance banks
Banks established in 2003
2003 establishments in Tajikistan
Companies based in Dushanbe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offensive%20programming | Offensive programming is a name used for the branch of defensive programming that expressly departs from defensive principles when dealing with errors resulting from software bugs. Although the name is a reaction to extreme interpretations of defensive programming, the two are not fundamentally in conflict. Rather, offensive programming adds an explicit priority of not tolerating errors in wrong places: the point where it departs from extreme interpretations of defensive programming is in preferring the presence of errors from within the program's line of defense to be blatantly obvious over the hypothetical safety benefit of tolerating them. This preference is also what justifies using assertions.
Distinguishing errors
The premise for offensive programming is to distinguish between expectable errors, coming from outside the program's line of defense, however improbable, versus preventable internal errors that shall not happen if all its software components behave as expected.
Contrasting examples:
Bug detection strategies
Offensive programming is concerned with failing, so to disprove the programmer's assumptions. Producing an error message may be a secondary goal.
Strategies:
No unnecessary checks: Trusting that other software components behave as specified, so to not paper over any unknown problem, is the basic principle. In particular, some errors may already be guaranteed to crash the program (depending on programming language or running environment), for example dereferencing a null pointer. As such, null pointer checks are unnecessary for the purpose of stopping the program (but can be used to print error messages).
Assertions – checks that can be disabled – are the preferred way to check things that should be unnecessary to check, such as design contracts between software components.
Remove fallback code (limp mode) and fallback data (default values): These can hide defects in the main implementation, or, from the user point of view, hide the fact that the software is working suboptimally. Special attention to unimplemented parts may be needed as part of factory acceptance testing, as yet unimplemented code is at no stage of test driven development discoverable by failing unit tests.
Remove shortcut code (see the strategy pattern): A simplified code path may hide bugs in a more generic code path if the generic code almost never gets to run. Since the two are supposed to produce the same result, the simplified one can be eliminated.
See also
Fail-fast
References
Programming paradigms
Programming principles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terse%20%28file%20format%29 | TERSE is an IBM archive file format that supports lossless compression. A TERSE file may contain a sequential data set, a partitioned data set (PDS), partitioned data set extended (PDSE), or a large format dataset (DSNTYPE=LARGE). Any record format (RECFM) is allowed as long as the record length is less than 32 K (64 K for RECFM=VBS). Records may contain printer control characters.
Terse files are compressed using a modification of Ziv, Lempel compression algorithm developed by Victor S. Miller and Mark Wegman at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
The Terse algorithm was proprietary to IBM; however, IBM has released an open source Java decompressor under the Apache 2 license. The compression/decompression program (called terse and unterse)—AMATERSE or TRSMAIN—is available from IBM for z/OS; the z/VM equivalents are the TERSE and DETERSE commands, for sequential datasets only. Versions for PC DOS, OS/2, AIX, Windows (2000,XP,2003), Linux, and Mac OS/X are available online.
AMATERSE
The following JCL can be used to invoke AMATERSE on z/OS (TRSMAIN uses INFILE and OUTFILE instead of SYSUT1 and SYSUT2):
//jobname JOB ...
//stepname EXEC PGM=AMATERSE,PARM=ppppp
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=input.dataset
//SYSUT2 DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DCB=ddd,DSN=output.dataset,
// SPACE=space_parameters
//SYSUT3 DD DISP=(NEW,DELETE),SPACE=space_parameters Optional temporary dataset
Uses
Terse can be used as a general-purpose compression/decompression tool. IBM also distributes downloadable Program temporary fixs (PTFs) as tersed datasets. Terse is also used by IBM customers to package diagnostic information such as z/OS dumps and traces, for transmission to IBM.
References
External links
Terse PC versions at Vetusware
IBM software
Archive formats
Data compression
American inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi%20Summer | Hi Summer was a British television variety show made by London Weekend Television and shown on UK television in 1977 by ITV, the oldest commercial network in the UK. A total of eight episodes were made and featured a cast that included Leslie Crowther, Lena Zavaroni, Carl Wayne, Pearly Gates, Anna Dawson, Derek Griffiths, Chris Quinten and Stephanie Lawrence. This travelling variety show featured sketches, topical comedy and musical numbers that were recorded both in studio and on location (Stratford upon Avon, Crystal Palace, Knebworth House among others). The theme tune was composed by Lynsey de Paul, and sung by Carl Wayne and was released as a single. De Paul's theme was later re-used on commercials for TVTimes.
References
External links
1977 British television series debuts
1977 British television series endings
1970s British television series
British variety television shows
English-language television shows
ITV (TV network) original programming
London Weekend Television shows
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu%20PRO%205 | The Meizu PRO 5 is a smartphone designed and produced by the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which runs on Flyme OS, Meizu's modified Android operating system. It is the company's first model of the flagship PRO series. It was unveiled on September 23, 2015, in Beijing.
History
First rumors about Meizu releasing a new flagship device featuring a Samsung Exynos SoC appeared in September 2015, after the device was listed on the AnTuTu benchmark, It was also mentioned that the upcoming flagship device would be called “Niux”.
On September 9, 2015, Meizu officially announced that it would release a new flagship device on September 23, 2015.
On September 11, 2015, Meizu VP Li Nan announced that the name of the new flagship device will be PRO 5.
Release
Pre-orders for the PRO 5 began after the launch event on September 23, 2015.
The release of the device was delayed until November due to flooding of the factory.
Features
Flyme
The Meizu PRO 5 was released with an updated version of Flyme OS, a modified operating system based on Android Lollipop. It features an alternative, flat design and improved one-handed usability.
Hardware and design
The Meizu PRO 5 features a Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa with an array of eight ARM Cortex CPU cores, an ARM Mali-T760 MP8 GPU and 3 GB or 4 GB of RAM, which scores a result of 85,652 points on the AnTuTu benchmark. The PRO 5 was ranked first on the AnTuTu benchmark rating for Q3 2015.
Meizu Global Brand Manager Ard Boudeling explained in November 2015 that Meizu decided to use the Samsung Exynos SoC because it is “currently [..] the only option if you want to build a genuine premium device”.
The Meizu PRO 5 has a full-metal body, which measures x x and weighs . It has a slate form factor, being rectangular with rounded corners and has only one central physical button at the front.
Unlike most other Android smartphones, the PRO 5 doesn't have capacitive buttons nor on-screen buttons. The functionality of these keys is implemented using a technology called mBack, which makes use of gestures with the physical button. This button also includes a fingerprint sensor called mTouch.
The PRO 5 is available in four different color variants (grey body with black front, champagne gold body with white front and white body with black or white front) and comes with 32 GB or 64 GB of internal storage.
The PRO 5 features a 5.7-inch AMOLED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display with a (FHD resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels. The pixel density of the display is 387 ppi.
In addition to the touchscreen input and the front key, the device has a volume/zoom control and the power/lock button on the right side and a 3.5mm TRS audio jack, which is powered by a dedicated Hi-Fi amplifier supporting 32-bit audio with a frequency range of up to 192 kHz.
The PRO 5 uses a USB-C connector for both data connectivity and charging.
The Meizu PRO 5 has two cameras. The rear camera has a resolution of 21.16 MP, a ƒ/2.2 aperture and a 6-el |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu%20M3E | The Meizu M3E (also known as Meizu E in China) is a smartphone designed and produced by the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which runs on Flyme OS, Meizu's modified Android operating system. It is a current model of the M series. It was unveiled on August 10, 2016, in Beijing.
History
In July 2016, rumors about a new mid-range Meizu device appeared after several leaked pictures and specifications had been leaked on social media. According to these rumors, the new device was supposed to be called “M1E” and feature a MediaTek Helio P10 system-on-a-chip with a Mali T-860 GPU.
On August 2, 2016, a launch event for the new device for August 10, 2016, was officially announced.
Release
As announced, the M3E was released in Beijing on August 10, 2016.
Pre-orders for the M3E began after the launch event on August 10, 2016.
Features
Flyme
The Meizu M3E was released with an updated version of Flyme OS, a modified operating system based on Android Marshmallow. It features an alternative, flat design and improved one-handed usability.
Hardware and design
The Meizu M3E features a MediaTek Helio P10 system-on-a-chip with an array of eight ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores and an ARM Mali-T860 MP2 GPU. The M3E comes with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage. It reaches a score of 47397 points on the AnTuTu benchmark.
The Meizu M3E is available in five different colors (grey, silver, champagne gold, rose gold and blue). It has a full-metal body, which measures x x and weighs .
The Meizu M3E has a slate form factor, being rectangular with rounded corners and has only one central physical button at the front. Unlike most other Android smartphones, the M3E doesn't have capacitive buttons nor on-screen buttons; the functionality of these keys is implemented using a technology called mBack, which makes use of gestures with the physical button. The M3E further extends this button by a fingerprint sensor called mTouch.
The Meizu M3E features a fully laminated 5.5-inch IPS multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display with 1080x1920 pixels (Full HD) resolution and 403 ppi pixel density. In addition to the touchscreen input and the front key, the device has volume/zoom control buttons and the power/lock button on the right side, a 3.5mm TRS audio jack on the top and a microUSB (Micro-B type) port on the bottom for charging and connectivity.
The Meizu M3E has two cameras. The rear camera has a resolution of 13 MP, a ƒ/2.2 aperture, a 5-element lens, phase-detection autofocus and an LED flash. The front camera has a resolution of 5 MP, a ƒ/2.0 aperture and a 4-element lens.
See also
Meizu
Comparison of smartphones
References
External links
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2016
M3E
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Encantadia%20%282016%20TV%20series%29%20characters | Encantadia is a Philippine television drama series directed by Mark Reyes and written by Suzette Doctolero, which premiered on GMA Network and worldwide through GMA Pinoy TV on July 18, 2016. The story is a reboot (often called as requel or retelling-sequel) to the original 2005 fantasy-action series of the same name. The following is a list of characters from the Encantadia 2016 television series.
Premise
Encantadia is a vast continent, a realm away from the mortals. Encantadia is about an exciting and thrilling tale about the adventures and journey of the Diwanis to Sang'gres and now as Haras. Their purpose in their world, their fate and one's destiny, and their defeats and champions against the endless and inevitable dark forces.
Fairies of Encantadia
Former Queens of Lireo
Cassiopei-a
Portrayed by Solenn Heussaff-Bolzico
The first ruling queen or the Hara Duryé of Lireo. She was a powerful fairy sorceress. Also known as Ang Mata (the Eye) of Encantadia. Cassiopei-a is regarded as the bunggaitan or the most powerful engkantado in Encantadia, being a master in both the mystical and martial arts. She was entrusted the life-long responsibility of safekeeping the Mother Gem after it was created by Bathalang Emre to protect all life on their realm. However, after Sang'gre Adhara launched a full-blown attack on her secluded island to steal the Mother Gem, the former queen chose to cleave the powerful weapon, splitting it into five smaller gems. As punishment for playing god, Cassiopei-a was cursed with an immortal life, unable to set foot in the kingdom she once ruled. During her exile, she used her power of precognition to help the citizens of Encantadia find the answers they seek in exchange for gold pieces. She directly opposed Bathalumang Ether, one of the creators of Encantadia who became intent on causing disorder and destruction in their realm, and played a vital role in Sang'gre Lira's mission to unite the five gems and bring reconciliation to the four feuding daughters of the former Hara Mine-a. She eventually aspired to become a deity herself, which was granted by Emre after she died trying to save Encantadia and for successfully restoring him into power. During her reign as the Queen of Lireo, she adopted an infant Sapirian named LilaSari, and the two shared a complicated mother-daughter relationship. She is the owner of the Kabilan, a twin-bladed wand which could turn into a sword, spar, staff, scepter, dagger, and boomerang. She dons a purple armor during combat. She speaks only Enchanta, but speaks Tagalog using telepathy.
Ursula
Hara Ursula of Lireo is the second Queen of Lireo. Not much is known about her personal reign and why she was designated as Cassiopei-a's successor. It was said that she died due to a grave sickness.
Demetria
Hara Demetria of Lireo is the third Queen of Lireo, the successor of Ursula. Not much is known about her reign, or her relationship with her predecessors, Cassiopei-a and Ursula. She had a daughter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory-based%20cache%20coherence | In computer engineering, directory-based cache coherence is a type of cache coherence mechanism, where directories are used to manage caches in place of bus snooping. Bus snooping methods scale poorly due to the use of broadcasting. These methods can be used to target both performance and scalability of directory systems.
Full bit vector format
In the full bit vector format, for each possible cache line in memory, a bit is used to track whether every individual processor has that line stored in its cache. The full bit vector format is the simplest structure to implement, but the least scalable. The SGI Origin 2000 uses a combination of full bit vector and coarse bit vector depending on the number of processors.
Each directory entry must have 1 bit stored per processor per cache line, along with bits for tracking the state of the directory. This leads to the total size required being (number of processors)×number of cache lines, having a storage overhead ratio of (number of processors)/(cache block size×8).
It can be observed that directory overhead scales linearly with the number of processors. While this may be fine for a small number of processors, when implemented in large systems the size requirements for the directory becomes excessive. For example, with a block size of 32 bytes and 1024 processors, the storage overhead ratio becomes 1024/(32×8) = 400%.
Coarse bit vector format
The coarse bit vector format has a similar structure to the full bit vector format, though rather than tracking one bit per processor for every cache line, the directory groups several processors into nodes, storing whether a cache line is stored in a node rather than a line. This improves size requirements at the expense of bus traffic saving (processors per node)×(total lines) bits of space. Thus the ratio overhead is the same, just replacing number of processors with number of processor groups. When a bus request is made for a cache line that one processor in the group has, the directory broadcasts the signal into every processor in the node rather than just the caches that contain it, leading to unnecessary traffic to nodes that do not have the data cached.
In this case the directory entry uses 1 bit for a group of processors for each cache line. For the same example as Full Bit Vector format if we consider 1 bit for 8 processors as a group, then the storage overhead will be 128/(32×8)=50%. This is a significant improvement over the Full Bit Vector format.
Sparse directory format
A cache only stores a small subset of blocks in main memory at a particular time. Hence most of the entries in the directory will belong to uncached blocks. In the sparse directory format the wastage is reduced by storing only the cached blocks in the directory. Consider a processor with a cache size of 64KB with a block size of 32 bytes and the main memory size to be 4MB. The maximum number of entries that the directory can have in the sparse directory format is 2048. If the d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steered-response%20power | Steered-response power (SRP) is a family of acoustic source localization algorithms that can be interpreted as a beamforming-based approach that searches for the candidate position or direction that maximizes the output of a steered delay-and-sum beamformer.
Steered-response power with phase transform (SRP-PHAT) is a variant using a "phase transform" to make it more robust in adverse acoustic environments.
Algorithm
Steered-response power
Consider a system of microphones, where each microphone is denoted by a subindex . The discrete-time output signal from a microphone is . The (unweighted) steered-response power (SRP) at a spatial point can be expressed as
where denotes the set of integer numbers and would be the time-lag due to the propagation from a source located at to the -th microphone.
The (weighted) SRP can be rewritten as
where denotes complex conjugation, represents the discrete-time Fourier transform of and is a weighting function in the frequency domain (later discussed). The term is the discrete time-difference of arrival (TDOA) of a signal emitted at position to microphones and , given by
where is the sampling frequency of the system, is the sound propagation speed, is the position of the -th microphone, is the 2-norm and denotes the rounding operator.
Generalized cross-correlation
The above SRP objective function can be expressed as a sum of generalized cross-correlations (GCCs) for the different microphone pairs at the time-lag corresponding to their TDOA
where the GCC for a microphone pair is defined as
The phase transform (PHAT) is an effective GCC weighting for time delay estimation in reverberant environments, that forces the GCC to consider only the phase information of the involved signals:
Estimation of source location
The SRP-PHAT algorithm consists in a grid-search procedure that evaluates the objective function on a grid of candidate source locations to estimate the spatial location of the sound source, , as the point of the grid that provides the maximum SRP:
Modified SRP-PHAT
Modifications of the classical SRP-PHAT algorithm have been proposed to reduce the computational cost of the grid-search step of the algorithm and to increase the robustness of the method. In the classical SRP-PHAT, for each microphone pair and for each point of the grid, a unique integer TDOA value is selected to be the acoustic delay corresponding to that grid point. This procedure does not guarantee that all TDOAs are associated to points on the grid, nor that the spatial grid is consistent, since some of the points may not correspond to an intersection of hyperboloids. This issue becomes more problematic with coarse grids since, when the number of points is reduced, part of the TDOA information gets lost because most delays are not anymore associated to any point in the grid.
The modified SRP-PHAT collects and uses the TDOA information related to the volume surrounding each spatial point of the search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Azerbaijan | Roads in Azerbaijan are the main transport network in Azerbaijan. With the railway network still undergoing modernization and not covering the entire country, especially mountainous areas and other areas with difficult topography, the road system is the most important form of transport in the country. Its role is important both with national, and as an important transit country, with international traffic.
Overview
Azerbaijan is an important country for international transit. The total length of the Azerbaijani road network is about 29,000 km, serving domestic cargo traffic and connecting to international highways. Because Azerbaijan's railway network is inadequate, roads provide the most important form of transport in the country. Highways are mostly in fair condition, but do not meet international standards for transit traffic. Smaller main and rural roads are in poor condition. All types of roads are undergoing rapid modernization with rehabilitation and extensions. For every 1,000 km2 of the national territory, there is 334 km of roads. In 2018, the Global Competitiveness Index ranked Azerbaijan 36th out of 137 countries for the quality (condition and extensiveness) of its road infrastructure.
History
The first modern paved roads in Azerbaijan were built in the 19th century when it was part of the Russian Empire.
Road classification
Motorways
The most important class of highways is motorways. They are designated with the letter M.
Azerbaijan has recently developed a network of multi-lane motorways, which are steadily being expanded. Especially around Baku, some of these roads are built to controlled-access highway standards. Most motorways have six lanes, whereas some in and near Baku have up to eight. In the cities, the motorways are illuminated.
Highways
65 other highways are a level below M-level roads and connect main highways to communities. These highways are designated with the letter R. The highway network is four lanes wide, two in each direction. Like motorways, they are illuminated in the cities, but less frequently in towns. In Azerbaijan, highway signs are blue and the names of locations are printed in capital letters. The main highways in the country are:
Roads of local importance
Below R-level roads, roads of local importance connect M- and R-level roads to settlements. They are designated with Y for yerli (local). The road numbers are named in the format "Y-##-##", where # stands for a digit. The first two digits follow the same digits allocated to each district for license plates. The second pair of digits is assigned from 01 upwards in each district.
Cities of republican significance do not have their individual codes, as there are no local roads, only republican, regional, and municipal.
References
See also
Roads in Georgia (country)
Roads in Kazakhstan
Roads in Kyrgyzstan
Roads in Tajikistan
Transport in Azerbaijan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoshen%E2%80%93Kopelman%20algorithm | The Hoshen–Kopelman algorithm is a simple and efficient algorithm for labeling clusters on a grid, where the grid is a regular network of cells, with the cells being either occupied or unoccupied. This algorithm is based on a well-known union-finding algorithm. The algorithm was originally described by Joseph Hoshen and Raoul Kopelman in their 1976 paper "Percolation and Cluster Distribution. I. Cluster Multiple Labeling Technique and Critical Concentration Algorithm".
Percolation theory
Percolation theory is the study of the behavior and statistics of clusters on lattices. Suppose we have a large square lattice where each cell can be occupied with the probability p and can be empty with the probability 1 – p. Each group of neighboring occupied cells forms a cluster. Neighbors are defined as cells having a common side but not those sharing only a corner i.e. we consider the 4-connected neighborhood that is top, bottom, left and right. Each occupied cell is independent of the status of its neighborhood. The number of clusters, the size of each cluster and their distribution are important topics in percolation theory.
Hoshen–Kopelman algorithm for cluster finding
In this algorithm, we scan through a grid looking for occupied cells and labeling them with cluster labels. The scanning process is called a raster scan. The algorithm begins with scanning the grid cell by cell and checking whether the cell is occupied or not. If the cell is occupied, then it must be labeled with a cluster label. This cluster label is assigned based on the neighbors of that cell. (For this we are going to use Union-Find Algorithm which is explained in the next section.) If the cell doesn’t have any occupied neighbors, then a new label is assigned to the cell.
Union-find algorithm
This algorithm is a simple method for computing equivalence classes. Calling the function union(x,y) returns whether items x and y are members of the same equivalence class. Because equivalence relations are transitive, all the items equivalent to x are equivalent to all the items equivalent to y. Thus for any item x, there is a set of items which are all equivalent to x (called the equivalence class). A second function find(x) returns a representative member of the equivalence class to which x belongs.
Pseudocode
During the raster scan of the grid, whenever an occupied cell is encountered, neighboring cells are scanned to check whether any of them have already been scanned. If we find already scanned neighbors, the union operation is performed, to specify that these neighboring cells are in fact members of the same equivalence class. Then thefind operation is performed to find a representative member of that equivalence class with which the current cell will be labeled.
On the other hand, if the current cell has no neighbors, it is assigned a new, previously unused, label. The entire grid is processed in this way.
Following pseudocode is referred from Tobin Fricke's implementation of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinland-Pf%C3%A4lzische%20Personendatenbank | The Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank (People database of Rhineland-Palatinate, RPPD) is an internet database with short biographies of people who have lived or worked in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is being edited at four scientific libraries in Rhineland-Palatinate: Rheinische Landesbibliothek Koblenz, Pfälzische Landesbibliothek Speyer, Stadtbibliothek Mainz, Stadtbibliothek Trier. The RPPD is hosted by Rheinische Landesbibliothek Koblenz, a facility of the Landesbibliothekszentrums Rheinland-Pfalz.
Content
Research for the Rheinland-Pfälzische Bibliographie often results also in biographical data. In 2005, this developed into the idea for a separate database.
Criteria
The criterion for an entry is that a person was born on the territory of today's Rhineland-Palatinate (also before the establishment of the Bundesland in 1946) or has died there or has done some significant work there. Currently (April 2013), around 10,000 people from Roman times onwards are recorded. With authorization by the rights owners data from printed biographical reference works were added. As far as dead people are concerned, the name registers have been integrated into the biography portal in March 2012. A dataset includes the following information (if ascertainable): name forms, sex, life dates, places of life and work, occupations, fields of expertise, relations to other persons (inside and outside of the RPPD), own works, sources, biographical text. All this information can also be researched.
External links
Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank
References
Online person databases
Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate
2005 establishments in Germany
Internet properties established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 2016 to August 2017. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC World News Now
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Nightline
CBS
Returning series
CBS Overnight News
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with James Corden
FOX
Returning Series
Encore Programming
Not returning from 2015-16:
Home Free
Party Over Here
Sunday Sitcom Series
NBC
Returning series
Last Call with Carson Daly
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Mad Money
Saturday Night Live
Today With Kathie Lee and Hoda
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
References
United States late night network television schedules
Late
Late |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20Norman%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Arthur C. Norman is a British computer scientist, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he has previously been a Director of Studies for Computer Science.
Education
Awarded a distinction in computer science in 1970.
Teaching
Norman delivered his last lecture at the Computer Laboratory on 3 December 2008 but his notes are still used as teaching resources. The Trinity College Science Society often has Dr. Norman back for talks.
Publications
Norman, A. and Cattell, G. 1983. "LISP on the B. B. C. Microcomputer" AcornSoft, Cambridge, England.
Matooane, M. and Norman, A "A Parallel Symbolic Computation Environment: Structures and Mechanics." Euro-Par 1999: 1492-1495
Norman, A. and Fitch, J "CABAL: polynomial and power series algebra on a parallel computer." PASCO 1997: 196-203
Norman, A. and Fitch, J. "Interfacing REDUCE to Java." DISCO 1996: 271-276
Norman, A. and Fitch, J. "Memory Tracing of Algebraic Calculations." ISSAC 1996: 113-119
References
External links
Arthur Norman Fanclub
"The Function of Faster Programming", New Scientist, 25 November 1982
Dedication in Harvey, M. 2000 "Multithreading - The Delphi Way"
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu%20M3%20Max | The Meizu M3 Max is a smartphone designed and produced by the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which runs on Flyme OS, Meizu's modified Android operating system. It is a current phablet model of the M series. It was unveiled on September 5, 2016, in Beijing.
History
In August, rumors about a new phablet Meizu device appeared after the company released some teasers for a new device mentioning that it will be a device containing “Max” in the product name. At the same point, invitations containing a Nokia device for a Meizu launch event on September 5, 2016, had been sent out.
On August 26, 2016, several leaked photos of the upcoming phablet device had been released.
Release
As announced, the M3 Max was released in Beijing on August 10, 2016.
Pre-orders for the M3 Max began after the launch event on August 10, 2016.
Features
Flyme
The Meizu M3 Max was released with an updated version of Flyme OS, a modified operating system based on Android Marshmallow. It features an alternative, flat design and improved one-handed usability.
Hardware and design
The Meizu M3 Max features a MediaTek Helio P10 system-on-a-chip with an array of eight ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, an ARM Mali-T860 MP2 GPU and 3 GB of RAM.
The M3 Max is available in four different colors (grey, silver, champagne gold and rose gold) and comes with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage.
The Meizu M3 Max has a full-metal body, which measures x x and weighs . It has a slate form factor, being rectangular with rounded corners and has only one central physical button at the front.
Unlike most other Android smartphones, the M3 Max doesn't have capacitive buttons nor on-screen buttons. The functionality of these keys is implemented using a technology called mBack, which makes use of gestures with the physical button. The M3 Max further extends this button by a fingerprint sensor called mTouch.
The M3 Max features a fully laminated 6-inch IPS multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display with a FHD resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels. The pixel density of the display is 296 ppi.
In addition to the touchscreen input and the front key, the device has volume/zoom control buttons and the power/lock button on the right side, a 3.5mm TRS audio jack on the top and a microUSB (Micro-B type) port on the bottom for charging and connectivity.
The Meizu M3 Max has two cameras. The rear camera has a resolution of 13 MP, a ƒ/2.2 aperture, a 5-element lens, phase-detection autofocus and an LED flash.
The front camera has a resolution of 5 MP, a ƒ/2.0 aperture and a 4-element lens.
See also
Comparison of smartphones
References
External links
Official product page Meizu
Phablets
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2016
M3 Max
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wilensky | Robert Wilensky (26 March 1951 – 15 March 2013) was an American computer scientist and emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, with his main focus of research in artificial intelligence.
Academic career
In 1971, Wilensky received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University, and in 1978, a Ph.D. in computer science from the same institution. After finishing his thesis, "Understanding Goal-Based Stories", Wilensky joined the faculty from the EECS Department of UC Berkeley. In 1986, he worked as the doctoral advisor of Peter Norvig, who then later published the standard textbook of the field: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.
From 1993 to 1997, Wilensky was the Berkeley Computer Science Division Chair. During this time, he also served as director of the Berkeley Cognitive Science Program, director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Project, and board member of the International Computer Science Institute.
In 1997, he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for research contributions to the areas of natural language processing and digital libraries as well as outstanding leadership in Computer Science." Furthermore, he also was a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
He retired from faculty in 2007 and died on Friday, March 15, 2013, of a bacterial infection at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Wilensky was married to Ann Danforth and he is survived by her and their two children, Avi and Eli Wilensky
Research
Throughout his career, Wilensky authored and co-authored over 60 scholarly articles and technical reports on AI, natural language processing, and information dissemination. In addition to his numerous technical publications, Wilensky also published two books on the programming language LISP, LISPcraft and Common LISPcraft, and had almost completed another book manuscript when he suffered a cardiac arrest and stopped writing.
Among his publications are:
R. Wilensky, (1986-09-17). Common LISPcraft. W. W. Norton & Company. .
T. A. Phelps and R. Wilensky, "Toward active, extensible, networked documents: Multivalent architecture and applications," in Proc. 1st ACM Intl. Conf. on Digital Libraries, E. A. Fox and G. Marchionini, Eds., New York, NY: ACM Press, 1996, pp. 100–108.
J. Traupman and R. Wilensky, "Experiments in Improving Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation," University of California, Berkeley, Department of EECS, Computer Science Division, Tech. Rep. 03–1227, Feb. 2003.
R. Wilensky, Planning and Understanding: A Computational Approach to Human Reasoning, Advanced Book Program, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1983.
R. Wilensky, "Understanding Goal-Based Stories," Yale University, Sep. 1978.
See also
UC Berkeley School of Information
International Computer Science Institute
Peter Norvig
References
Artificial intelligence researchers
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Wattenhofer | Roger Wattenhofer, born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing, networking, and algorithms. He is a professor at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) since 2001. He has published numerous research articles in computer science and a book on Bitcoin.
In 2012, Wattenhofer won the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded annually at the SIROCCO conference. Together with Christian Decker in 2014, he uncovered that nearly 850,000 of the Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox could not have been stolen by malleability attacks, as claimed by Mt. Gox.
In 2017, he appeared in a movie about the Blockchain.
Selected publications
References
External links
Roger Wattenhofer's home page
Mathematics Genealogy Project entry
Living people
1969 births
Swiss computer scientists
Academic staff of ETH Zurich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20del%20Campo | Pablo del Campo is an Argentine advertising executive, entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder of Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi, an agency within the Saatchi & Saatchi and Publicis Groupe networks. Del Campo has earned recognition as a creative executive, having received accolades for his work in Argentina's advertising industry.
Schooling and Early Career
Del Campo attended the ESP School of Communications and Marketing for his degree in advertising and the Asociación Argentina de Agencias de Publicidad for a Masters in Copywriting. He started his career as a copywriter at Casares Grey Argentina in 1989, then became Executive Creative Director at Young & Rubicam and Lautrec Saatchi & Saatchi before founding his own agency, Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi Buenos Aires, in 2000.
Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi Career (from January 2000 until April 2016)
His firm worked for global clients, amongst which include Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, PlayStation, InBev and Mondelēz International, as well as local Argentinean clients such as BGH, Andes Beer, and the Buenos Aires Zoo. The agency was recognized as “International Agency of the Year” by Advertising Age in 2011. Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi's Argentina agency performance drove the Saatchi & Saatchi network's decision to launch a second Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi agency office in Madrid, Spain. In January 2013, Del Campo was appointed Saatchi & Saatchi's Worldwide Creative Director, leading the agency's global creativity network in over 140 offices in 76 countries. He held this title until April 2016. From its launch until 2016, Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi has been ranked in the Gunn Report top 10 consolidated table (1999–2016)
Notable Work
Del Campo's advertising work includes “Teletransporter” for Inbev's Andes beer, “Almost Identical” for Beldent gum (Trident), and “Battle of the Surfaces,” in which tennis stars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal clashed on a unique half-grass/half-clay court, which was broadcast for a 200 million audience. His other creative work includes adapting and producing concerts, theater plays, and musicals such as “Casi Normales” (Spanish version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Next to Normal) and Criatura Emocional (Eve Ensler's Emotional Creature).
Cannes Lions
Del Campo received his first Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity award in 1996 for Sony's Feel the music campaign and has since won more than 90 lions. He has received Gold Lions in every discipline including the Grand Prix for Inbev Andes Beer “Teletransporter”. He also has been selected as a Cannes juror in different categories: Film Lions in 2000, Titanium in 2010, and President of the jury of Press Lions in 2015.
Del Campo's tenure as Saatchi & Saatchi's Worldwide Creative Director also saw the creation of the 25th edition of the Saatchi & Saatchi New Director's Showcase at the 2015 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity which went on to be screened at both the Museum of Modern Ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20Platform%20Aircraft | Science Platform Aircraft are aircraft that benefit the earth science community. These aircraft are unique to NASA or are commercial aircraft. They are equipped with sensors that provide data for NASA's spaceborne missions. This program is part of the Earth Science Division and is what provides new aircraft systems that will further science and make better the use of data from satellites. There are four main goals to the program and those are satellite calibration and validation, support new sensor development, process studies, and develop the next-generation of scientists and engineers.
Satellite Calibration and Validation
Calibration is defined as the process of quantitatively defining the system response to known, controlled signal inputs. Validation is defined as the process of assessing by independent means the quality of the data provided. Higher level products can be successfully generated from satellite sensor data only if both calibration and validation are present. This allows Earth observation satellites the ability to get calibration measurements and allows them to get validation of their data retrieval algorithms.
New Sensor Development
When using sensors to gain data, science platform aircraft use remote sensors. These can be broken into two groups; active and passive.
Active Sensors
Active sensors emit radiation in the direction of the object they are observing causing it to light up. To get a reading, it measures how much energy is reflected back at the sensor. Most active sensors are in the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This means that they are able to pass through almost any atmospheric condition.
Passive Sensors
Passive sensors work by detecting natural radiation from the object that is being observed. The most common source of radiation comes from reflected sunlight. Most passive sensors operate in the visible, infrared, and microwave sections of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Process Studies
Combining global satellite observations with high resolution spatial measurements allows for a better understanding of the complete Earth system.
References
Berrick, Stephen. "Remote Sensors." NASA, NASA, 17 Oct. 2016, earthdata.nasa.gov/user-resources/remote-sensors.
Justice, Erin. "NASA Airborne Science Program." NASA, NASA, 16 Aug. 2012, https://airbornescience.nasa.gov/aircraft
Fladeland, Matthew. "NASA Airborne Science Program." NASA, NASA, 17 Dec. 2013, airbornescience.nasa.gov/.
"VI. Calibration and Validation of Space-Based Observations." VI. Calibration and Validation of Space-Based Observations, www.fao.org/docrep/005/ac654e/ac654e08.htm.wor
NASA aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20database%20design | Evolutionary database design involves incremental improvements to the database schema so that it can be continuously updated with changes, reflecting the customer's requirements. People across the globe work on the same piece of software at the same time hence, there is a need for techniques that allow a smooth evolution of database as the design develops. Such methods utilize automated refactoring and continuous integration so that it supports agile methodologies for software development. These development techniques are applied on systems that are in pre-production stage as well on systems that have already been released. These techniques not only cover relevant changes in the database schema according to customer's changing needs, but also migration of modified data into the database and also customizing the database access code accordingly without changing the data semantics.
History
After using the waterfall model for a long time, the software industry has witnessed a rise in adoption of agile methods for software development. Agile methodologies don’t assume requirements to be permanent at any stage of the software life cycle. These methods are designed to support sporadic changes in contrast to waterfall design technique. An important part of this approach is iterative development, where the entire software life-cycle is run multiple times during the life of a project. Every iteration witnesses the complete software development life cycle despite the iterations being of short duration that can vary between weeks to a few months.
Before the adoption of these methodologies, the entire system was designed before starting to develop the code. The same principle was applied to the database schema as well where it was considered to be derived out of the software requirements which were in turn developed by collaboration between the customer, end-users, business analysts, etc. and these requirements were not expected to change with the progress in the software development. This approach proved to be cumbersome because as time progressed, the redundancies in the existing database schema in the form of unused rows or columns were evident. This redundancy along with data quality problems went on to become a costly affair. It was concluded that the practice of not having design interleaved with construction and testing was highly inefficient.
Techniques
As mentioned in the previous section evolutionary methods are iterative in nature and these methods have become immensely popular over last two decades. Evolutionary database design aims to construct the database schema over the course of the project instead of building the entire database schema at the beginning of the project. This method of database design can capture and deal effectively with the changing requirements of projects.
There are five evolutionary database design techniques that can aid developers in building their database in an iterative fashion. A brief overview about the five |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohit%20Aron | Mohit Aron (born 1973), is an Indian-American computer scientist, businessman and entrepreneur.
Life
Aron was born about 1973 and grew up in Chandigarh.
He graduated with a bachelor of technology in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1995.
Aron graduated with an MS in 1998 and a PhD in computer science from Rice University in 2001. with a focus on distributed computing.
His advisor was Peter Druschel.
In 2000 he joined a company called Zambeel.
He was a developer on the Google File System engineering project from 2003 to 2007.
From 2007 to 2009 he worked at Aster Data Systems.
Aron is a promoter of the term hyper-converged infrastructure
Aron co-founded Nutanix in 2009.
Aron was recognized by CRN Magazine in 2012.
Aron founded Cohesity in 2013.
In July and August 2016, CRN mentioned Cohesity.
References
1973 births
Living people
Businesspeople from California
Rice University alumni
IIT Delhi alumni
Google employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansueto%20High%20School | Mansueto High School is a Level +1 public four-year charter high school located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools. It is located at West 47th street between Richmond and Mozart street in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago.
It is named after donors Joe and Rika Mansueto.
Mansueto High School opened in 2016 at a temporary location (51st and Keeler) while its permanent building was under construction. The architectural firm, Wheeler and Kearns partnered with contractors, Bulley and Andrews, to construct the school. Mansueto opened at its permanent location in August 2017. In 2018, the school's design received a Brick in Architecture Award. The site was the former location of the RC bottling plant.
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External links
Mansueto High School
2016 establishments in Illinois
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Educational institutions established in 2016
Public high schools in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident%20Evil%3A%20Vendetta | Resident Evil: Vendetta, known as in Japan, is a 2017 Japanese adult computer-animated biopunk action horror film set in the same universe as the Resident Evil video games. Produced by Marza Animation Planet and Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, the film features the characters Leon S. Kennedy, Chris Redfield, and Rebecca Chambers. Takashi Shimizu also served as executive producer, and Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi supervised the film. It is the third CG film, preceded by Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) and Resident Evil: Damnation (2012), and also the third film installment with Leon Kennedy as a main character. It was released in Japan on May 27, 2017. A sequel, Resident Evil: Death Island, was released in 2023.
Plot
In 2014, BSAA agent Chris Redfield is tracking Glenn Arias, a former CIA operative-turned arm's dealer who is wanted by both the Interpol and FBI.
Arias, wanting revenge against the U.S. government for killing his friends and family in a drone strike at his wedding, is developing and smuggling bioweapons into the country, so Chris and his fellow agents infiltrate a mansion in Mexico, to rescue their missing undercover source, Cathy White. Inside the mansion, Chris's fellow agents are ambushed by zombies and death traps, with Chris being the sole survivor. Chris then comes face-to-face with Arias outside the mansion. Arias then reveals that Cathy has become a zombie under his control. As Arias leaves with his associates, Maria and Diego Gomez, the BSAA rescues Chris by slaughtering Cathy and the remaining zombie horde.
Four months later, Professor Rebecca Chambers, former S.T.A.R.S. unit member and survivor of the Mansion Incident, studies a new virus coined the "Animality Virus"—"A-virus" for short—that is capable of laying dormant inside any individual until the right trigger is presented. She identifies three components of the virus: the base virus, the triggering virus, and the vaccine. The research labs are attacked by Maria and release the virus via aerosol form. While her colleagues quickly turn into zombies, Rebecca is able to formulate a vaccine to make herself immune. After fending off some zombies, Rebecca is then rescued by Chris and his BSAA team: D.C., Damian, and Nadia. He briefs her on his mission.
Rebecca recognizes the zombies' loyalty to the host and makes a connection to Las Plagas, the bioweapon used by the Los Illuminados who Division of Security Operations (DSO) agent Leon S. Kennedy once encountered in Europe, theorizing that the remaining members of the cult are providing information to Arias in developing the A-virus. They make contact with Leon in Colorado to try to get him on board, but a guilt-ridden Leon is unwilling at first after having had to kill the SWAT team sent to back him up during a bomb threat which turned out to be a small viral outbreak. Leon also wonders how much longer they can keep fighting the BOWs and the people who create them like they have been for years. During thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran%20Lyons | Ciaran Lyons (born 13 December 1996) is an Australian stand up comedian, television and radio presenter. He is best known for his work as a presenter on national radio network triple j as well as his television appearances on The Project, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation and the latest series of SBS Filthy Rich and Homeless.
Personal life
Lyons was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1996 where he lived for seven years before moving with his family to Perth, Australia.
Career
Lyons did his first gig aged 14 years old at the Laugh Resort Comedy Club in Perth, and began performing at major comedy venues around Australia. Whilst underage for the first few years of his career, his parents had to take him to all his shows. In 2012 he appeared in the WA Raw Comedy Finals, before winning "Next Gen Comedian" the following year at the 2013 Perth International Comedy Festival.
At 18 years old, Lyons debut solo show at the Perth Fringe was nominated for "Best Comedy" award. That same year he was selected to be part of the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival "Comedy Zone" Show. He has made appearances at Triple J's Good Az Friday, Splendour in the Grass and ABC Comedy Bites Gala (Hamer Hall, Melbourne).
Lyons was a regular Perth Metro Whip presenter for Network Ten's The Project, covering what was happening in Perth over the weekend.
In 2016 The Sunday Times included Lyons in their Hottest 100 WA People List.
Lyons now resides in Sydney and can be heard regularly presenting on national youth station Triple J. Over the 2018 Summer he was heard filling in for weekday breakfast presenters Ben and Liam, hosting Triple J Breakfast.
Lyons has been heard hosting various shows across Triple J including weekday breakfast, lunch and Drive as well as across the weekends on Breakfast and Afternoons.
He has opened for some of the biggest names in comedy including Ron Funches, Demetri Martin and Theo Von.
In 2019, Lyons was invited to headline a weekend of shows at Malaysia's largest comedy venue, The Joke Factory.
He is currently signed to Mushroom Group and Frontier Touring and recently appeared on Channel Nine's new series of Talkin' Bout Your Generation as part of the Gen Z team.
On 12 May 2020 it was announced that Lyons was one of the five high profile Australians in the new season of the SBS series Filthy Rich and Homeless. Lyons experienced homelessness for ten days and it will be broadcast nationally over three episodes on SBS in June 2020.
Fundraising
During the devastating 2019-20 Australian bushfire season Lyons produced, organised and hosted a Bushfire Relief Comedy Gala at The Astor Theatre in Perth to great success. Featuring high profile names Peter Rowsthorn and Matt Dykinski, the night raised over $10,000 for Australian Red Cross.
References
Perth Comedian Ciaran Lyons suffers testicular torsion before Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The AU Interview: Comedians Jacob Lingard, Ciaran Lyons and Matt Stewart talk about "Comedy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Bhaskar | Michael Bhaskar is a British writer, researcher and publisher.
His first book, The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network (Anthem Press, 2013), is an academic exploration of the past, present and future of the publishing industry.
His second book Curation: The power of selection in a world of excess (Piatkus/Little, Brown, 2016) is business-oriented non-fiction, an analysis of how to prosper when facing information overload. It looks at how the idea of curation moved from museums and art galleries to the Internet and business.
He collaborated with Mustafa Suleyman to publish the book The Coming Wave, Technology, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
He is also co-founder of Canelo, a digital publisher.
References
External links
Michael Bhaskar Profile at Hachette (publisher)
English male writers
British book publishers (people)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorsport%20Network | Motorsport Network is an American media and technology company headquartered in Miami, Florida and London, UK. The company's proprietary brands, websites and OTT operations focus on motor racing and consumer automotive content serving and presenting content to audiences worldwide. The privately held business was founded in 2015 with the acquisition of Motorsport.com and now operates international digital, videogame, print, e-commerce & event businesses.
History
Following the acquisition of Motorsport.com, the company established its headquarters in Miami in 2015.
In 2016, it acquired its major competitor, the Haymarket Publishing portfolio of motor racing brands, including the renowned Autosport business that was established in 1950.
The company opened an automotive division with the creation of the Motor1.com brand that subsequently has been supplemented by the creation or acquisition of a number of other motoring platforms including FerrariChat.com, InsideEVs.com, and MYEV.com.
In May 2017, Motorsport Network conducted a multi-lingual Global Fan Survey of Formula One, reputed to be the world's largest fan survey of any sport, with over 200,000 respondents.
In 2018, James Allen, formerly the Financial Times' Formula 1 correspondent and network commentator with UK broadcasters ITV and BBC was appointed as the company's president.
In May 2018, Motorsport Network bolstered its presence in the esports market through partnerships with Codemasters, Le Mans and NASCAR.
In 2019, the company attracted two new investors, Formula 1 multiple world champion, Fernando Alonso became a shareholder in the esport division and Formula E's founder, Alejandro Agag to a shareholding in the organisation's electric vehicle (EV) operation.
In February 2020, Mehul Kapadia, formerly SVP Global Head of Marketing at Tata Communications, joined the company as COO.
In April 2020, the company also announced a partnership with Ferrari for an official channel on the Motorsport.tv streaming platform. This was followed by an official Mercedes Benz Motorsport channel in August 2020.
In May 2021, the company announced that it had agreed to acquire the luxury automotive marketplace duPont Registry as the centrepiece of a new division focussed on the buying and selling of supercars and luxury automobiles.
In October 2021, the company announced the promotion of Oliver Ciesla to the role of CEO.
In June 2023, Motorsport Network Media was acquired by GMF Capital. The deal included 50+ websites, but not the company's gaming division.
Motorsport Network businesses
Motorsport Network businesses are divided into two categories of Motorsport and Automotive. The primary businesses are noted below:
Motorsport businesses
Motorsport.com
Motorsport.com is Motorsport Network's flagship website operated across in 15 languages and 21 national editions.
The platform reports across all forms of international and national motorsport including Formula 1, MotoGP, NASCAR & IndyCar on a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Science%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | Discovery Science Latin America is a television channel in Latin America dedicated to science-themed programming, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
External links
Programming guide official website
Latin America
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Warner Bros. Discovery Americas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card%20Transaction%20Data | Card transaction data is financial data generally collected through the transfer of funds between a card holder's account and a business's account. It consists of the use of either a debit card or a credit card to generate data on the transfer for the purchase of goods or services. Transaction data describes an action composed of events in which master data participates. Transaction focuses on the price, discount and method of payment interaction between the customer and the organization. They are based on volatility as each transaction data changes every time a purchase is made, one time it could be $10, the next $55. Since debit and credit cards are commonly used to pay for goods and services, they represent a strong percentage of the consumption expenditure in the country.
Overview
When a transaction is made, the card holder is offered a paper or electronic transaction record containing information about the purchase. This includes: transaction amount, transaction number, transaction date and time, transaction type (deposits, withdrawal, purchase or refund), type of account being debited or credited, card number, identity of the card acceptor (organization/store address) as well as the identity of the terminal (company name from which the machine operates). The use of debit cards in 2014 increased by 18% from the 2011 total volume of Canadian Payment Methods. As for credit cards, it increased by 26% from the 2011 total volume of Canadian Payment Methods. These two types of payment methods combined make up for more transactions than cash. Card transaction data has increased through the expansion of payment channels available to customers. Additionally, incentive and reward programs have increased the use of electronic cards for their benefits. The use of contactless and e-commerce payment has also allowed for a growth in card transaction data to increase due to the simplicity of the transaction. The use of Interact Debit transactions have increased rapidly in the last 6 years according to Interact Debit statistics. However, Canada has a lower rate debit use transactions by inhabitant in comparison to the United States, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, and Great Britain.
Credit cards
Terminal processes of credit card transactions:
Purchase
Purchase-void
Refund
Refund-void
Pre-authorization
Private label payment
Private label payment-void
Note: Terminals process pre-paid credit cards the same as standard credit cards
Type of credit cards:
Standard (MasterCard, Visa, Discover, AMEX)
Pre-paid (MasterCard, Visa, Discover, AMEX)
Corporate (purchasing) cards (as long as it is a processable standard card, i.e. standard Visa means corporate Visa cards are processable)
Private label cards (depending on the terms of agreement between the company's financial terminal data generator
Debit cards
Terminal processes of debit card transactions:
Purchase
Purchase-void
Refund
Refund-Void
Some debit chips may also allow:
pre-authorized
Priv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20prefetching | Cache prefetching is a technique used by computer processors to boost execution performance by fetching instructions or data from their original storage in slower memory to a faster local memory before it is actually needed (hence the term 'prefetch'). Most modern computer processors have fast and local cache memory in which prefetched data is held until it is required. The source for the prefetch operation is usually main memory although it can also be from disk storage. Because of their design, accessing cache memories is typically much faster than accessing main memory, so prefetching data and then accessing it from caches is usually many orders of magnitude faster than accessing it directly from main memory. Prefetching can be done with non-blocking cache control instructions.
Data vs. instruction cache prefetching
Cache prefetching can either fetch data or instructions into cache.
Data prefetching fetches data before it is needed. Because data access patterns show less regularity than instruction patterns, accurate data prefetching is generally more challenging than instruction prefetching.
Instruction prefetching fetches instructions before they need to be executed. The first mainstream microprocessors to use some form of instruction prefetch were the Intel 8086 (six bytes) and the Motorola 68000 (four bytes). In recent years, all high-performance processors use prefetching techniques.
Hardware vs. software cache prefetching
Cache prefetching can be accomplished either by hardware or by software.
Hardware based prefetching is typically accomplished by having a dedicated hardware mechanism in the processor that watches the stream of instructions or data being requested by the executing program, recognizes the next few elements that the program might need based on this stream and prefetches into the processor's cache.
Software based prefetching is typically accomplished by having the compiler analyze the code and insert additional "prefetch" instructions in the program during compilation itself.
Methods of hardware prefetching
Stream buffers
Stream buffers were developed based on the concept of "one block lookahead (OBL) scheme" proposed by Alan Jay Smith.
Stream buffers are one of the most common hardware based prefetching techniques in use. This technique was originally proposed by Norman Jouppi in 1990 and many variations of this method have been developed since. The basic idea is that the cache miss address (and subsequent addresses) are fetched into a separate buffer of depth . This buffer is called a stream buffer and is separate from cache. The processor then consumes data/instructions from the stream buffer if the address associated with the prefetched blocks match the requested address generated by the program executing on the processor. The figure below illustrates this setup:
Whenever the prefetch mechanism detects a miss on a memory block, say A, it allocates a stream to begin prefetching successive blocks from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Cappos | Justin Cappos (born February 27, 1977) is a computer scientist and cybersecurity expert whose data-security software has been adopted by a number of widely used open-source projects. His research centers on software update systems, security, and virtualization, with a focus on real-world security problems.
Cappos has been a faculty member at New York University Tandon School of Engineering since 2011, and was awarded tenure in 2017. Now an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, he has introduced a number of new software products and system protocols as head of the school's Secure Systems Laboratory. These include technologies that detect and isolate security faults, secure private data, provide a secure mechanism for fixing software flaws in different contexts, and even foster a deeper understanding about how to help programmers avoid security flaws in the first place.
Recognizing the practical impact of his work, Popular Science selected Cappos as one of its Brilliant 10 in 2013, naming him as one of 10 brilliant scientists under 40. His awareness of the risks of today's connected culture—a knowledge strong enough to keep him from owning a smartphone or other connected device, or from using social media like Facebook and Twitter—has led to numerous requests to serve as an expert commentator on issues of cyber security and privacy for local, national, and international media.
Education and early research initiatives
The topic of Cappos' Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Arizona was the Stork Project, a software package manager he built with John H. Hartman, a professor in the Department of Computer Science. Stork is still used today in some applications, but, more importantly, the project called attention to the need for improved security for software update processes, a research area Cappos has continued to pursue.
While a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Washington in 2009, Cappos also developed a peer-to-peer computing platform called Seattle, which allows device-to-device connectivity in a decentralized network. Seattle is currently used by thousands of developers, who can access, download, and use the program on any type of smart device. In addition, spin-off technologies, such as Sensibility Testbed, have extended the use of Seattle's security and enforced privacy protection strategies, allowing researchers to collect data from sensors at no risk to the privacy of the device owner.
Compromise-resilient strategies
In 2010, Cappos developed The Update Framework (TUF), a flexible software framework that builds system resilience against key compromises and other attacks that can threaten the integrity of a repository. TUF was designed for easy integration into the native programming languages of existing update systems, and since its inception, it has been adopted or is in the process of being integrated by a number of high-profile open-source projects. One of the more significant ear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnormalized%20form | In database normalization, unnormalized form (UNF), also known as an unnormalized relation or non-first normal form (N1NF or NF2), is a database data model (organization of data in a database) which does not meet any of the conditions of database normalization defined by the relational model. Database systems which support unnormalized data are sometimes called non-relational or NoSQL databases. In the relational model, unnormalized relations can be considered the starting point for a process of normalization.
It should not be confused with denormalization, where normalization is deliberately compromised for selected tables in a relational database.
History
In 1970, E. F. Codd proposed the relational data model, now widely accepted as the standard data model. At that time, office automation was the major use of data storage systems, which resulted in the proposal of many NF2 data models like the Schek model, Jaeschke models (non-recursive and recursive algebra), and the Nested Table Data (NTD) model. IBM organized the first international workshop exclusively on this topic in 1987 which was held in Darmstadt, Germany. Moreover, a lot of research has been done and journals have been published to address the shortcomings of the relational model. Since the turn of the century, NoSQL databases have become popular owing to the demands of Web 2.0.
Relational form
Normalization to first normal form requires the initial data to be viewed as relations. In database systems relations are represented as tables. The relation view implies some constraints on the tables:
No duplicate rows. In practice, this is ensured by defining one or more columns as primary keys.
Rows do not have an intrinsic order. While tables have to be stored and presented in some order, this is unstable and implementation dependent. If a specific ordering needs to be represented, it has to be in the form of data, e.g. a "number" column.
Columns have unique names within the same table.
Each column has a domain (or data type) which defines the allowed values in the column.
All rows in a table have the same set of columns.
This definition does not preclude columns having sets or relations as values, e.g. nested tables. This is the major difference to first normal form.
NoSQL databases like Document databases typically does not conform to the relational view. For example, an JSON or XML database might support duplicate records and intrinsic ordering. Such database can be described as non-relational. But there are also database models which support the relational view, but does not embrace first normal form. Such models are called non-first normal form relations (abbreviated NFR, N1NF or NF2).
Example
This table represent a relation where one of the columns (Transactions) is itself relation-valued. This is a valid relation but does not conform to first normal form which does not allow nested relations. The table is therefore unnormalized.
Modern applications
Today, companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine64 | Pine Store Limited, known by its trade name Pine64 (styled as PINE64), is a Hong Kong-based organization that designs, manufactures, and sells single-board computers, notebook computers, as well as smartwatch/smartphones. Its name was inspired by the mathematical constants pi and with a reference to 64-bit computing power.
History
Pine64 initially operated as Pine Microsystems Inc. (Fremont, California), founded by TL Lim, the inventor of the PopBox and Popcorn Hour series of media players sold under the Syabas and Cloud Media brands.
In 2015, Pine Microsystems offered its first product, the Pine A64, a single-board computer designed to compete with the popular Raspberry Pi in both power and price. The A64 was first funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding drive in December 2015 which raised over US$1.7 million. The Kickstarter project was overshadowed by delays and shipping problems. The original Kickstarter page referred to Pine64 Inc. based in Delaware, but all devices for the Kickstarter campaign were manufactured and sold by Pine Microsystems Inc. based in Fremont, California.
In January 2020, Pine Microsystems Inc. was dissolved while Pine Store Limited was incorporated on December 5, 2019, in Hong Kong. As of late 2020, the standard form contract of pine64.com binds all orders to the laws of Malaysia, while the products are shipped from warehouses in Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong.
Devices
After the initial Kickstarter orders for the Pine A64 single-board computers, the company went on to make more devices.
Single-board computers
The original Pine A64 boards released in 2016 are powered by the Allwinner A64 system-on-chip. It features a 1.2 GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53 64-Bit Processor, an ARM Mali 400 MP2 graphics processor unit, one HDMI 1.4a port, one MicroSD slot, two USB 2.0 ports and a 100 Megabit Ethernet port. The A64 board has only 512 megabytes of RAM, the 1 GB and 2 GB versions are labeled "Pine A64+". While the 512 MB model only works with Arch Linux and Debian GNU/Linux distributions, such as Armbian or DietPi, the A64+ with more memory can also run other operating systems including Android, Remix OS, Windows 10, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu. Optional eMMC storage modules can be plugged into special headers on the board.
A compute module called SOPINE A64 was introduced in January 2017. It features the same system-on-chip as the Pine A64, but mounted on a DDR3 SODIMM form factor board without the USB, HDMI, and Ethernet connectors. It competes with the Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. Pine64 sells a "Clusterboard" with an inbuilt eight-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, which can be used to build a cluster system out of up to seven SOPINE modules. A review by Hackaday noted problems with production quality, software, and user support.
2017 also saw the addition of a "Long Term Supply" (LTS) version of the Pine A64/A64+ boards, called "Pine A64/A64(+)- LTS". The LTS versions are identical to the A64/A64+, but are guaranteed to be a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usapang%20Real%20Love | Real Love (stylized as URL: Usapang Real Love / ) is a 2016 Philippine television drama romantic comedy anthology broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on September 25, 2016 replacing Conan, My Beautician. The show concluded on December 18, 2016 with a total of 14 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Chapters
"Dream Date"
Air-date: September 25, 2016 - October 16, 2016
Director: Real Florido
Cast and characters:
Miguel Tanfelix as Diego Cablao
Bianca Umali as Grace Anne Manalo
Jak Roberto as Juan Miguel Samaniego
Ces Quesada as Mercidita Delgado
Jade Lopez as Lily Anne Manalo
Yayo Aguila as Gina Cablao
Lloyd Samartino as Fabian Samaniego
Gene Padilla as Mario Cablao
Caprice Cayetano as Diana Daenarys Cablao
Jonathan Sebastian Trinidad as chef Biboy
"Perfect Fit"
Air-date: October 23, 2016 - November 20, 2016
Director: Jorron Lee Monroy
Cast and characters:
Andre Paras as Eugene
Mikee Quintos as Cindy and Ella
Jay Arcilla as Kristoff
Arra San Agustin as Meg
Mickey Ferriols as Amanda Lace
William Lorenzo as Fred
Bekimon as Chicklet
Vince Gamad as Jose
Dayara Shane as Athena
Bryce Eusebio as young Eugene
"Relationship Goals"
Air-date: November 27, 2016 - December 18, 2016
Director: Lemuel Lorca
Cast and characters:
Aljur Abrenica as Kiso
Janine Gutierrez as Yapi
Stephanie Sol as Angel
Sherilyn Reyes as Queen
Dennis Padilla as Ricky
Maricel Morales as Veronique
Mikoy Morales as Alon
Lovely Abella as Aimee
Kyle Vergara as Roni
Allysa De Real as Buttercup
Jenny Catchong as Bubbles
Bryan Benedict as Will
Kai Atienza as Ali
Sarah Pagcaliwagan as Diane
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Urban Luzon household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 12.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 10.2% rating in Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes.
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine anthology television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20SINGA | Apache SINGA is an Apache top-level project for developing an open source machine learning library. It provides a flexible architecture for scalable distributed training, is extensible to run over a wide range of hardware, and has a focus on health-care applications.
History
The SINGA project was initiated by the DB System Group at National University of Singapore in 2014, in collaboration with the database group of Zhejiang University, in order to support complex analytics at scale, and make database systems more intelligent and autonomic. It focused on distributed deep learning by partitioning the model and data onto nodes in a cluster and parallelize the training. The prototype was accepted by Apache Incubator in March 2015, and graduated as a top-level project in October 2019. Seven versions have been released as shown in the following table. Since V1.0, SINGA is general to support traditional machine learning models such as logistic regression.
Software Stack
SINGA's software stack includes three major components, namely, core, IO and model. The following figure illustrates these components together with the hardware. The core component provides memory management and tensor operations; IO has classes for reading (and writing) data from (to) disk and network; The model component provides data structures and algorithms for machine learning models, e.g., layers for neural network models, optimizers/initializer/metric/loss for general machine learning models.
SINGA-Auto
SINGA-Auto (aka. Rafiki in VLDB2018) is a subsystem of Apache SINGA to provide the training and inference service of machine learning models. SINGA-Auto frees users from constructing the machine learning models, tuning the hyper-parameters, and optimizing the prediction accuracy and speed. Users can simply upload their datasets, configure the service to conduct training, and then deploy the model for inference. As a cloud service system, SINGA-Auto manages the hardware resources, failure recovery, etc. For ease of use, it provides a model zoo, which is a set of built-in machine-learning models for popular tasks such as structured data (e.g., EMR data) analytics, image recognition, and text processing.
In the training service, a general framework for distributed hyper-parameter tuning is proposed and a collaborative tuning scheme is designed specifically for deep learning models.
In the inference service, a scheduling algorithm is proposed based on reinforcement learning to optimize the overall accuracy and reduce latency. It can adapt to the changes of request rates.
SINGA-Easy
SINGA-Easy(ACM Multimedia 2021) is an easy-to-use deep learning framework built as a component of Apache SINGA to facilitate the adoption of deep learning algorithms and inference services by domain-specific domain application users (e.g., multimedia, medical image analysis). It provides distributed hyper-parameter tuning at the training stage, dynamic computational cost control at the inference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Pandu%20Rangan | Chandrasekaran Pandurangan (born September 20, 1955) is a computer scientist and academic professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IITM). He mainly focuses on the design of pragmatic algorithms, graph theory and cryptography.
Early life
Pandu Rangan was born on September 20, 1955, to S.R. Chandrasekharan in Madras, India. He is married and has two children.
Education
Pandu Rangan completed his B.Sc. from University of Madras in 1975. After obtaining B.Sc., he received his M.Sc. from the same university in 1977. He completed his PhD from IISc, Bangalore in 1984.
Research interests
Pandu Rangan has published over two hundred research papers in the following areas of computer science and engineering:
Restricting the problem domain
Approximate algorithm design
Randomized algorithms
Parallel and VLSI algorithms
Applied cryptography
Secure multi-part computation
Game theory and
Graph theory
Problems of practical interest in graph theory, combinatorics and computational geometry were his main interests in research. In cryptology his current focus is on secure message transmission and provable security of cryptographic protocols / primitives.
Awards and honours
In 2018, he won Institute Chair Professor at IIT Madras.
Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, (2006).
Member of the Board of Directors of International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), (2002-2005).
Member, Board of Directors, Society for Electronics Transaction and Security (SETS), (2005-2007).
Member, Editorial Board, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS Series), Springer-Verlag, Germany, (2005-2008).
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, (2005-2008).
Bibliography
K. Srinathan, M. V. N. Ashwin Kumar, C. Pandu Rangan: Asynchronous Secure Communication Tolerating Mixed Adversaries. Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2002, 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Queenstown, New Zealand, 1–5 December 2002: Pages 224-242
K. Srinathan, Arvind Narayanan, C. Pandu Rangan: Optimal Perfectly Secure Message Transmission. Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2004, 24th Annual International CryptologyConference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 15–19 August 2004: Pages 545-561
Kannan Srinathan, N. R. Prasad, C. Pandu Rangan: On the Optimal Communication Complexity of Multiphase Protocols for Perfect Communication. 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2007), 20–23 May 2007, Oakland, California, USA, 2007: Pages 311-320
Kannan Srinathan, Arpita Patra, Ashish Choudhary, C. Pandu Rangan: Probabilistic Perfectly Reliable and Secure Message Transmission - Possibility, Feasibility and Optimality. Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2007, 8th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Chennai, India, 9–13 December 2007: Pages 101-122
S. Sharmila Deva Selvi, S. Sree Vivek, Deepanshu Shukla, C. Pandu R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid%20Melouk | Farid Melouk (born 14 May 1965) is a French-Algerian former member of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and convicted terrorist, known for his central role in jihadist networks.
Born in Lyon, France, he was the original suspect of a terror plot against the 1998 FIFA World Cup, after having been sentenced in absentia to 7 years in prison in France for his connection to the 1995 Paris Métro and RER bombings. After the 1995 charge, he went abroad and spent time in countries including Afghanistan and Croatia. After being arrested in an anti-terrorism police raid in Belgium in March 1998 in connection with the World Cup terror plot, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison in Belgium for charges including attempted murder. He was extradited to France in 2004, and released in 2009.
Melouk has been described as a "jihadist address book" for his extensive connections to jihadist and terrorists. During his time in prison, he befriended convicted terrorist Djamel Beghal, and in 2010 appeared in photographs alongside Beghal, as well as Chérif Kouachi, one of the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015. Melouk left France with his wife and children for Syria in October 2012, and appeared in photographs alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the November 2015 Paris attacks. His extensive networks and suspected role in jihadist recruiting has led him to become a priority target for French anti-terrorism.
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1965 births
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria members
French Islamists
French male criminals
French people of Algerian descent
Islamic terrorism in Belgium
Islamic terrorism in France
Living people
People convicted in absentia
People convicted on terrorism charges
Prisoners and detainees of Belgium
People extradited from Belgium
People extradited to France
French people imprisoned abroad
People convicted of attempted murder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomeExchange.com | HomeExchange.com is a network to facilitate home exchanges.
Each home has a number of points attributed, called "Guestpoints". Members can either do reciprocal exchanges or non-reciprocal exchanges with guestpoints. They earn points by hosting other members, and they can use those to stay at other homes. In order to finalize a reciprocal exchange, members need to activate their annual membership of US$220 (or €160 in Europe) per year, for unlimited exchanges. As of December 2022 homeexchange.com has >100,000 members and over 450,000 homes in 133 countries.
History
Ed Kushins first came up with the idea of starting home exchange service service back in 1992, after he and his family made their first home exchange from Hermosa Beach, California to Washington D.C. On this trip, he learned that staying in a home as opposed to a hotel was not only more comfortable, but offered a more enriching "living like a local" experience and was a lot more affordable. The HomeExchange club would be later be launched that same year, and was able to be navigated using a mail-ordered, printed directory. However, it would not become a web-based platform until 1996, when e-commerce was rising its way to popularity.
It is currently unknown what the site originally looked like on its launch date, since web.archive.org was only able to trace it all the way back to 1998, despite the site being found in 1996.
In 2006, HomeExchange.com got featured and promoted in the romantic comedy, "The Holiday", produced and directed by Nancy Meyers.
In March of 2017, GuestToGuest merged with HomeExchange.com, and since 2019 continued under that name. GuestToGuest's founder, Emmanuel Arnaud then became the CEO of HomeExchange.com.
In March of 2023, HomeExchange.com purchased their competitor, Love Home Swap.
External links
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2011 establishments in France
Cultural exchange
Hospitality services
Online companies of France
Peer-to-peer
Vacation rental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Fujimoto | James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a visiting professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He has been part of the MIT faculty since 1985 and is currently Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is known for his leading role in the invention of a novel medical imaging modality named optical coherence tomography that is now a standard of care for diagnosis and treatment of several diseases with widespread adoption in ophthalmology. In addition to his work on OCT he has also contributed to the development of femtosecond lasers.
Professor Fujimoto was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for pioneering contributions to and commercialization of optical coherence tomography (OCT). He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published over 400 journal articles.
Awards and honors
2001 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
2001 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2001
2011
2012 Champalimaud Vision Award
2013 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award
2014 IEEE Photonics Award
2015 Frederic Ives Medal
2017 Russ Prize
2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
2023 National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2023)
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External links
Faculty bio
Research group page
1957 births
Living people
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Optical coherence tomography
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of Optica (society)
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Optical engineers
Electrical engineering academics
American electrical engineers
American academics of Japanese descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception%20technology | Deception technology is a category of cyber security defense mechanisms that provide early warning of potential cyber security attacks and alert organizations of unauthorized activity. Deception technology products can detect, analyze, and defend against zero-day and advanced attacks, often in real time. They are automated, accurate, and provide insight into malicious activity within internal networks which may be unseen by other types of cyber defense. Deception technology enables a more proactive security posture by seeking to deceive an attacker, detect them and then defeat them.
Deception technology considers the human attacker's point of view and method for exploiting and navigating networks to identify and exfiltrate data. It integrates with existing technologies to provide new visibility into the internal networks, share high probability alerts and threat intelligence with the existing infrastructure.
Technology: High Level View
Deception technology automates the creation of traps (decoys) and lures, which are strategically integrated among existing IT resources. These decoys provide an additional layer of protection to thwart attackers who have breached the network. Traps can be IT assets that utilize genuine licensed operating system software or emulate various devices, such as medical devices, automated teller machines (ATMs), retail point of sale systems, switches, routers, and more. On the other hand, lures typically consist of real information technology resources, such as files of different types, that are placed on actual IT assets.
Upon penetrating the network, attackers seek to establish a backdoor and then use this to identify and exfiltrate data and intellectual property. They begin moving laterally through the internal VLANs and almost immediately will "look at" one of the traps. Interacting with one of these "decoys" will trigger an alert. These alerts are very high probability and almost always coincide to an ongoing attack. The deception is designed to lure the attacker in – the attacker may consider this a worthy asset and continue by injecting malware. Deception technology generally allows for automated static and dynamic analysis of this injected malware and provides these reports through automation to the security operations personnel. Deception technology may also identify, through indicators of compromise (IOC), suspect end-points that are part of the compromise cycle. Automation also allows for an automated memory analysis of the suspect end-point, and then automatically isolating the suspect end-point. Many partner integrations allow for a variety of implementation paths for existing enterprise and government customers.
Specialized Applications
Internet of things (IoT) devices are not usually scanned by legacy defense in depth and remain prime targets for attackers within the network. Deception technology can identify attackers moving laterally into the network within these devices.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie%20Zero | Zombie Zero is an attack vector where a cyber attacker utilized malware that was clandestinely embedded in new barcode readers which were manufactured overseas.
It remains unknown if this attack was promulgated by organized crime or a nation state. Clearly there was significant planning and investment in order to design the malware, and then embed it into the hardware within the barcode scanner. Internet of things (IoT) devices may be similarly preinstalled with malware that can capture the network passwords and then open a backdoor to attackers. Given the high volume of these devices manufactured overseas high caution is to be exercised before placing these devices on corporate or government networks.
Detailed data on the attack
A malware embedded scanner was installed on a wireless network. An attack against the internal network initiated automatically using a server message block protocol.
The stolen data which was scanned included every piece of information about the item, destination address, source and more. This was sent clandestinely to a command and control connection back to a botnet in China. This botnet connected to the Lanxiang Vocational School located in the China Unicom network for Shandong province. This school in China has been connected to previous attacks, including Google and the Operation Aurora attack. The manufacturer of the scanner was located just a few blocks away from the school.
The botnet then downloaded a second payload that broadened the command and control which now extended to the target company's corporate servers in finance. The attackers were looking for logistics data on all shipping on a worldwide basis, and the attackers had succeeded in obtaining detailed financial data on all customers and shipments.
Detection
Zombie Zero can be detected using deception technology.
References
Cyberattacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Chong | Daniel Chong (born November 19, 1978) is an American animator, storyboard artist, writer, director, and producer. He is best known as the creator of Cartoon Network's We Bare Bears (2015–2019). He also directed, wrote and executive produced We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020).
Chong worked as a storyboard artist on the animated films Bolt (2008), Cars 2 (2011), The Lorax (2012), Free Birds (2013), and Inside Out (2015).
Early life
Chong was born in Fargo, North Dakota to Singaporean Chinese immigrants. He grew up in Fountain Valley, California, and attended California Institute of the Arts. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Career
Chong began his career as a storyboard artist for numerous animation giants, such as Blue Sky Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Illumination Entertainment, and Pixar Animation Studios. He worked as a storyboard artist on the animated films Bolt (2008), Cars 2 (2011), The Lorax (2012), Free Birds (2013), Despicable Me 2 (2013), and Inside Out (2015).
While working at Pixar, Chong worked on the television specials Toy Story of Terror! (2013) and Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014), the former of which won him an Annie Award.
Chong went on to create the animated series We Bare Bears, which premiered in 2015. The initial idea for We Bare Bears came from a webcomic that he had created in 2010 called The Three Bare Bears. The webcomic ended almost a year later, but he carried the idea with him. Chong has cited Seinfeld, Broad City, Peanuts, Aardman Animations and Wes Anderson as inspirations for the style and tone of the show. Chong directed, wrote, and executive produced a film adaptation of the series, We Bare Bears: The Movie, which was released in June 2020, thus ending the series.
In December 2020, Chong revealed on Twitter he had returned to Pixar and was working on a project there.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
American animated film producers
1978 births
American people of Chinese descent
Animators from New York (state)
American storyboard artists
Living people
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Animators from California
Artists from Berkeley, California
Cartoon Network Studios people
Pixar people
Artists from Queens, New York
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Illumination (company) people
We Bare Bears |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter%203%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Chapter 3" is the third episode of the sixth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 28, 2016, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by James Wong and directed by Jennifer Lynch, marking the first time the series has had a female director.
Plot
Lee, Shelby, and Matt search with police and volunteers for Flora. In a nearby farmhouse, they find two dirt-encrusted young boys nursing from the teats of a dead sow. After bringing the police back to the farmhouse, the two boys are taken to the hospital, where they are revealed to be part of the Polk family. The boys only know one word, "Croatoan", and in an interview, Matt and Shelby reveal that the word came to be a warning for the pair of them.
Mason accuses Lee of Flora's disappearance, raising the question that Lee may be hiding Flora somewhere in an attempt to prevent him from changing the custody agreement. That night, Mason is killed. Matt and Shelby examine the tapes of the security cameras for clues as to who could have killed Mason. The evidence that they uncover leads back to Lee, leading to a heated arguments between the three of them.
Just then, a psychic named Cricket Marlowe walks through the door, who claims to be able to locate Flora, and Lee pays him $25,000. He reveals that Priscilla is a ghost from the 1500s and that Flora was abducted by the ghost of Thomasin White, wife of John White, the governor of Roanoke Colony. She was left in charge of the colony after White returned to England for supplies, but was later deposed and exiled after the colonists rebelled against Thomasin in her husband's absence. While dying of hunger in the woods, Thomasin was saved by an English witch, Scathach, and swore loyalty to her. After re-establishing her control of Roanoke, Thomasin moved the colony inland to the area where Matt and Shelby's house now stands.
Cricket leads the Millers back into the woods, where they tell Thomasin, that in exchange for returning Flora, the Millers will burn their house down and leave the land for good. Shelby balks at the idea and looks to Matt, but he has disappeared. She finds him having sex with Scathach while the Polks watch. When Lee returns to the home, she is arrested by the police.
Reception
"Chapter 3" was watched by 3.07 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.7 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode earned a 93% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews with an average score of 6.6/10. The critical consensus reads, ""Chapter 3" ratchets up the action by finally exploring the hauntings of the Roanoke house and introducing a potential villain in gory AHS style."
References
External links
2016 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Roanoke episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter%204%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Chapter 4" is the fourth episode of the sixth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 5, 2016, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by John J. Gray and directed by Marita Grabiak.
Plot
Following Matt's affair with Scathach, Shelby thinks that Matt and Lee are conspiring against her. Later that night, Shelby is attacked by a man with the head of a pig. She is saved by Dr. Elias Cunningham, who explains that he has been the house's guardian for years. Cunningham leads the Millers to where Priscilla is keeping Flora as a hostage. Cunningham pleads with Priscilla to release Flora, but Thomasin's men shoot him to death. The Millers flee back to the house, where Cricket is waiting for them.
Cricket heads back into the woods and comes face to face with Scathach, who is revealed to be the true leader of the Roanoke Colony. Cricket explains that Matt had sex with Scathach in exchange for information about Roanoke. Upon accepting, Scathach transported him into her memories of the Lost Colony, a community whose bounty is directly derived from the practice of human sacrifice. Thomasin's son, Ambrose, objected to the sacrifices and rebelled against his mother's rule. Thomasin killed the entire colony, thus binding them to the land for the rest of eternity.
That night, Scathach demands the payment that is owed to her. Under her seduction, Matt learns of Scáthach's history. Shelby awakes to find Matt missing and goes outside, where she is confronted by Thomasin and her torch-bearing mob. She yells out for Matt and he comes running to her side, leaving Scáthach behind. Thomasin is about to sacrifice Flora, but with the help of Priscilla, she is able to escape to the Millers. The Millers then flee inside the house and Thomasin brings Cricket forward as a replacement. Ambrose and Thomasin proceed to disembowel Cricket as the Millers watch in horror.
Reception
Chapter 4 was watched by 2.83 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.4 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews with an average score of 6.9/10. The critical consensus reads, ""Chapter 4" reintroduces some classic American Horror Story chills while providing answers to epic questions and hinting at links to prior seasons."
References
External links
2016 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Roanoke episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy%20Dog%20Pals | Puppy Dog Pals is an American computer-animated children's television series created by Harland Williams. The series debuted on Disney Junior in the United States on April 14, 2017.
Plot
Puppy Dog Pals is about Bingo and Rolly, two pug puppy brothers who have fun traveling around their neighborhood and the world when their owner Bob leaves home. They also have a kitty sister named Hissy and a robot dog named A.R.F. (Auto-Doggy Robotic Friend).
Characters
Main
Bingo (voiced by Issac Ryan Brown in seasons 1–3) (voiced by Elisha "EJ" Williams in season 4–5) — A blackish grayish pug with a blue lightning collar who is more mature than his twin brother Rolly. He is the leader of Rolly and himself. Bingo is always ready to go on missions with his brother to help someone in need. Issac Ryan Brown left the series after season 3 due to puberty. Starting with season 4, Elisha Williams took on the role.
Rolly (voiced by Sam Lavagnino in seasons 1–3) (voiced by Gracen Newton in season 4–5) — A fawn pug with a red collar with a gold bone on it. While he isn't as smart as Bingo, he is still very silly. He is Bingo's twin birthday brother but Bingo is older than Rolly, as clarified in season 1. Rolly loves to chew on everything he can find and it's a bad habit. Sam Lavagnino left the series after season 3 due to puberty. Starting with season 4, Gracen Newton took on the role.
Bob (voiced by Harland Williams) — The owner of Bingo, Rolly, Hissy, Olivia and A.R.F. He works as an industrial designer/product designer a.k.a. an "inventor." In the season 2 premiere "A New Pup in Town," Bob modified the fence between his and Chloe's house, so that Keia can play with Bingo, Rolly and Hissy and they can all visit each other's homes without having to dig under the fence and made a new collar for Keia (since her old one fell off), which she wears during missions with Bingo and Rolly. He and Ana get married in the season 4 finale "Bob and Ana's Wedding".
Hissy (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) — A cynical purple tabby cat wearing a bow, who cares for Bingo and Rolly like a big sister. In some episodes, she ends up going along with Bingo and Rolly on their missions. She, along with Cupcake, is the only one with unnatural fur color.
A.R.F. (fully known as Auto-Doggy Robotic Friend) (voiced by Tom Kenny) — A robotic dog that Bob invented. He first appears in the episode "A.R.F." and was updated by Bob in "Go Dog Go." He always refers to himself in the third person in every episode with the exception of "Go Dog Go" and "How ARF Got His Voice Back."
Supporting
Keia (voiced by Shiloh Nelson) — A new shiba inu puppy owned by Bob's next door neighbors, Chloe and her mother. Keia also becomes close friends with Bingo, Rolly and Hissy ever since she met them. She is also known for wearing a turquoise colored long-sleeved sweater and wearing a pink collar with a gold star on it. She first appeared in "A New Pup in Town." Her best friend is Lollie.
Lollie (voiced by Giselle Eisenberg) — |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20activism | Data activism is a social practice that uses technology and data. It emerged from existing activism sub-cultures such as hacker an open-source movements. Data activism is a specific type of activism which is enabled and constrained by the data infrastructure. It can use the production and collection of digital, volunteered, open data to challenge existing power relations. It is a form of media activism; however, this is not to be confused with slacktivism. It uses digital technology and data politically and proactively to foster social change. Forms of data activism can include digital humanitarianism and engaging in hackathons. Data activism is a social practice that is becoming more well known with the expansion of technology, open-sourced software and the ability to communicate beyond an individual's immediate community. The culture of data activism emerged from previous forms of media activism, such as hacker movements. A defining characteristic of data activism is that ordinary citizens can participate, in comparison to previous forms of media activism where elite skill sets were required to participate. By increasingly involving average users, they are a signal of a change in perspective and attitude towards massive data collection emerging within the civil society realm.
Data activism can be the act of providing data on events or issues that individuals feel have not been properly addressed by those in power. For example, the first deployment of the Ushahidi platform in 2008 in Kenya visualized the post-electoral violence that had been silenced by the government and the new media. The social practice of data activism revolves around the idea that data is political in nature. Data activism allows individuals to quantify a specific issue. By collecting data for a particular purpose, it allows data activists to quantify and expose specific issues. As data infrastructures and data analytics grow, data activists can use evidence from data-driven science to support claims about social issues.
Types
A twofold classification of data activism has been proposed by Stefania Milan and Miren Gutiérrez, later explored more in-depth by Milan according to the type of activists' engagement with data politics. 'Re-active data activism' can be characterized as motivated by the perception of massive data collection as a threat, for instance when activists seek to resist corporate and government snooping, whereas 'pro-active data activism' sees the increasing availability of data as an opportunity to foster social change. These differentiated approaches to datafication result in different repertoires of action, which are not at odds with each other, since they share a crucial feature: they take information as a constitutive force capable of shaping social reality and contribute to generate new alternative ways of interpreting it. Examples of re-active data activism include the development and usage of encryption and anonymity networks to resist corporate o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw%20Warmus | Mieczysław Warmus (born June 1, 1918 in Dobrowlany, d. September 20, 2007 in Australia) was a Polish mathematician, a pioneer of computer science in Poland, professor, university lecturer, author of over a hundred scientific papers.
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Biography (Prof. Mieczysław Warmus (1918–2007))
Biography (Jadwiga Dutkiewicz Mieczysław Warmus Życie i praca naukowa )
20th-century Polish mathematicians
1918 births
2007 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory%20governance | Anticipatory profiling, is the practice used by the state to collect information and data about its citizens in order to assess events or behaviours in a predictable manner based on the knowledge gathered. Anticipatory governance is also a method of decision making that uses predictive measures to anticipate possible outcomes to then make decisions based on the data provided. Anticipatory governance is a system of governing that is made up of processes and institutions that rely on foresight and predictions to decrease risk and develop efficient methods to address events in their early conception or prevent them altogether.
History and applications
Anticipatory governance is a concept that has been derived from terms of similar meaning, like forward engagement and forward deployment, which was a primary focus for decisions made by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). More recently, anticipatory governance has become data oriented practice which allows citizens and governments to utilize data as contributions and evidence for decision making regarding various matters within society. For example, Finland has a Finnish parliamentary Committee for the Future, which takes advantage of foresight to predict and evaluate the impact of developments to the country.
Since 2001, the Millennium Project has initiated a project entitled the State of the Future Index, has been using a predictive methodology to foresee the future for global countries based on historical data, variables and indicators, such as GDP, annual population, literacy rates, population, and unemployment.
Methodology
Four part system
Anticipatory governance is a system with four components. They allow the system to: use a foresight, have a networked system that integrates foresight and policy procedures, receive feedback in order to improve efficiency and knowledge, and allow for flexibility. By allowing for feedback, anticipatory governance can detect and assess the development of future programs and policy. Feedback can be done through audits, and assessments of performance. The anticipatory system must adapt to consider possibilities that result from the data and may appear to be untraditional to allow the system to be effective and depend on pragmatic data.
Indicators
Anticipatory governance utilizes various techniques to assess society which can evaluate the continuous information from knowledge based technologies, such as machine learning. Anticipatory governance also takes into consideration that the concept cannot predict the future certainly, however, it can account for several possible future avenues. In order to determine these possible avenues the following list of indicators are required: "aggregated averages, risk assessment, sensitivity analysis of factors or decisions driving the scenarios, identification of unacceptable scenarios or worst cases, and assessment of common and different impacts among the scenarios."
Big data
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding%20Prince%20Charming | Finding Prince Charming is an American reality-TV dating show that premiered on the cable network Logo on September 8, 2016. It is hosted by actor and pop singer Lance Bass. Robert Sepúlveda Jr., an interior designer based in Atlanta, was cast as a suitor for the first season.
The concept of the show was modeled after The Bachelor, but instead of having a rose ceremony, it features a black tie ceremony.
Format
A cast of thirteen gay suitors will live together in one house with a Prince Charming in the search for love. Each week the Prince Charming will go on group or solo dates with different men. At the end of the episode, Prince Charming will have to eliminate contestants in a "black tie" ceremony, where black ties will be given to the guys he wants to keep and get to know more, while the guys who do not get a black tie will be eliminated. At the end of the process, Prince Charming will choose one man to try a relationship with outside of the series.
Production
The American cable network Logo ordered production of Finding Prince Charming on July 12, 2016, and announced that Lance Bass would host of the series. Shortly after the announcement, reports of the alleged suitor began and filming began in July 2016. Brian Graden, Dave Mace, Fred Birckhead, Nick Murray, Chris McCarthy, Pamela Post and Stevenson Greene are recognized as the series' executive producers; it is produced and distributed by Brian Graden Media.
On October 13, 2016, the series was renewed for a second installment. Applications for season two became available on November 3, 2016, and closed on November 16, 2016. Five suitors would be submitted to public voting and the winning suitor would be featured on season two as a contestant. Voting was from November 18 to November 23, 2016. However, as of 2023, a second installment has yet to be aired.
Contestants
The cast consists of 13 eligible men from the ages of 26–35.
Contestants' ages are at the time of filming.
Contestant Progress
The contestant received the first black tie or was called first to keep his black tie.
The contestant received the last black tie or was the last one called to keep his black tie.
The contestant quit the competition.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant was the runner up.
The contestant won Finding Prince Charming.
Controversy
A week before the premiere, an industry trade report revealed that series suitor Robert Sepulveda Jr. had previously engaged in prostitution and escort work. The following week he discussed he started turning to paid sexual encounters beginning in his 20s, and also spoke about a pornographic video released by what he characterized as a disgruntled ex-boyfriend. Logo said it was not aware of Sepulveda's history until after production had started. Contestant Chad Aaron Spodick claimed he had been fired from his job following the controversy.
Episodes
International versions
A current production
Status unknown
No longer airing
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Fulda | Nancy Fulda (née Owens) is an American science fiction writer, editor, and computer scientist. She is an alumna of Brigham Young University in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. She has won multiple awards for her science fiction writing, which has been compared to that of Asimov and Clarke.
Biography
Fulda graduated in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in computer science at Brigham Young University. In 2004, she received a master's degree in the same field, focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
One of her favorite science fiction short stories is Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, and she calls it "one of the best science fiction books [she] ever read". Her first award for writing was the 1998 Vera Hinckley Mayhew Award—given out at Brigham Young University—for her short story "The Man Who Murdered Himself". This story was later formally published in 2004 for the first time in The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 3. Having this story published helped her move toward a career in writing.
Her story "That Undiscovered Country" won the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award Grand Prize in 2011, beating "Gemini XVII" by Brad R. Torgersen and "Natural Selection" by Michael Simon. Fulda's 2012 story, "Movement" was partially inspired by her autistic son. It won the Readers' Choice Award from Asimov's Science Fiction, and was nominated for the BSFA, Hugo, and Nebula Awards.
Her writing has been compared to that of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. She draws on her religion, life experiences, and science background when creating her stories. Because of various conversations with fellow writers, she called for tolerance and respect in the science fiction and fantasy writing field for those with religious beliefs. Fulda is active in SFWA and has addressed various topics on the SFWA site as a guest blogger: engaging in online discussions, dealing with awards season, how to create good antagonists, developing effective hooks, writing short and long stories, and carving a finished story from an unfinished idea.
Fulda created the Anthology Builder website in 2007 as a way to promote short stories through custom anthologies, though the site closed down in late 2016. She is an adjunct professor in the Computer Science department at Brigham Young University, and she has four children.
Relatives
Fulda's sister is writer Sandra Tayler; her brother-in-law is cartoonist Howard Tayler.
Bibliography
Works are listed in chronological order within each section.
Collections
Dead Men Don't Cry: Science Fiction by Nancy Fulda (February 2011, self-published, )
Dead Men Don't Cry: 11 Stories by Nancy Fulda (February 2011, self-published, same content as above with the addition of "Tammi's Garden")
Hexes and Haunts: A Halloween 5-Pack (October 2011, self-published)
The Breath of Heaven: Stories from Distant Worlds (May 2012, AnthologyBuilder, )
The Death and Rebirth of Anne Bonny (December 2015, self-published, )
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu%20U10 | The Meizu U10 is a smartphone designed and produced by the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which runs on Flyme OS, Meizu's modified Android operating system. It was introduced together with the Meizu U20 as part of the new U series of Meizu on August 24, 2016.
Release
There was little information known to the public before the launch of the device on August 24, 2016.
Unlike previous Meizu devices, the U series was silently launched through the official Meizu website without an actual launch event.
Features
Flyme
The Meizu U10 was released with an updated version of Flyme OS, a modified operating system based on Android Marshmallow. It features an alternative, flat design and improved one-handed usability.
Hardware and design
The Meizu U10 features a MediaTek MT6750 system-on-a-chip with an array of eight ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, an ARM Mali-T860 MP2 GPU and 2 or 3 GB of RAM.
The U10 is available in four different colors (white, black, champagne gold and rose gold) and comes with either 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage or with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage.
The Meizu U10 has a full-metal frame, while the front and the back are made out of glass. The U10 measures x x and weighs . It has a slate form factor, being rectangular with rounded corners and has only one central physical button at the front.
Unlike most other Android smartphones, the U10 doesn't have capacitive buttons nor on-screen buttons. The functionality of these keys is implemented using a technology called mBack, which makes use of gestures with the physical button. The U10 further extends this button by a fingerprint sensor called mTouch.
The U10 features a fully laminated 5-inch multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display with a HD resolution of 720 by 1280 pixels. The pixel density of the display is 296 ppi.
In addition to the touchscreen input and the front key, the device has volume/zoom control buttons and the power/lock button on the right side, a 3.5mm TRS audio jack on the top and a microUSB (Micro-B type) port on the bottom for charging and connectivity.
The Meizu U10 has two cameras. The rear camera has a resolution of 13 MP, a ƒ/2.2 aperture, a 5-element lens, phase-detection autofocus and an LED flash.
The front camera has a resolution of 5 MP, a ƒ/2.0 aperture and a 4-element lens.
See also
Meizu
Meizu U20
Comparison of smartphones
References
External links
Official product page Meizu
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2016
U10
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu%20U20 | The Meizu U20 is a smartphone designed and produced by the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which runs on Flyme OS, Meizu's modified Android operating system. It was introduced together with the Meizu U10 as part of the new U series of Meizu on August 24, 2016.
Release
There was little information known to the public before the launch of the device on August 24, 2016.
Unlike previous Meizu devices, the U series was silently launched through the official Meizu website without an actual launch event.
Features
Flyme
The Meizu U20 was released with an updated version of Flyme OS, a modified operating system based on Android Marshmallow. It features an alternative, flat design and improved one-handed usability.
Hardware and design
The Meizu U20 features a MediaTek Helio P10 system-on-a-chip with an array of eight ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores, an ARM Mali-T860 MP2 GPU and 2 or 3 GB of RAM.
The U20 is available in four different colors (white, black, champagne gold and rose gold) and comes with either 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage or with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage.
The Meizu U20 has a full-metal frame, while the front and the back are made out of glass. The U20 measures x x and weighs . It has a slate form factor, being rectangular with rounded corners and has only one central physical button at the front.
Unlike most other Android smartphones, the U10 doesn't have capacitive buttons nor on-screen buttons. The functionality of these keys is implemented using a technology called mBack, which makes use of gestures with the physical button. The U10 further extends this button by a fingerprint sensor called mTouch.
The U20 features a fully laminated 5.5-inch multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display with a HD resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels. The pixel density of the display is 400 ppi.
In addition to the touchscreen input and the front key, the device has volume/zoom control buttons and the power/lock button on the right side, a 3.5mm TRS audio jack on the top and a microUSB (Micro-B type) port on the bottom for charging and connectivity.
The Meizu U20 has two cameras. The rear camera has a resolution of 13 MP, a ƒ/2.2 aperture, a 5-element lens, phase-detection autofocus and an LED flash.
The front camera has a resolution of 5 MP, a ƒ/2.0 aperture and a 4-element lens.
See also
Meizu
Meizu U10
Comparison of smartphones
References
External links
Official product page Meizu
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2016
U20
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Bull%20TV | Red Bull TV is an online television channel owned by Red Bull GmbH. Programming content focuses on live events and shows related to sports, music, lifestyle, and culture. The channel runs long-format original programming series.
Series include Sky Trippers, which follows three friends as they pilot paramotors through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia, and URBEX – Enter At Your Own Risk, a documentary series that explores urban exploration, and Screenland, a series about video game design.
The channel also features short-format series, such as Sheckler Sessions, which stars professional skateboarder Ryan Sheckler, and Who is J.O.B., featuring pro surfer Jamie O'Brien. Red Bull TV provides live coverage of sports events such as the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup and the Wings for Life World Run, as well as broadcasting music festivals like Lollapalooza.
References
External links
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/live-events
Red Bull
Internet television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Barras | Claude Barras (born 1973) is a Swiss director, producer, and writer.
Barras was born in Sierre, Switzerland. He studied illustration and computer graphics at Emile Cohl School in Lyon and 3D infographics at ECAL. He then received a degree in anthropology and digital images from Lumiere University. He works as a freelance illustrator in Geneva.
After his studies, Barras and his friend Cédric Louis co-founded Hélium Films. Under this production company, they’ve co-produced and sometimes co-directed multiple animated short films. Many of their films, like Land of the Heads (2008), have received awards and critical acclaim at numerous festivals.
Throughout his career, Barras directed several short films, including The Genie in a Ravioli Can (2006). Barras' first full-length animated feature, My Life as a Courgette (2016), was presented at the Director's Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival and received numerous awards at film festivals around the world. Switzerland submitted the film as a foreign-language entry for the 89th Academy Awards. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year but did not win.
Filmography
In addition to directing, Barras has co-produced many of his films. He has also co-produced several other films, not by him. This includes La femme canon (2017), Birdz (2016), Imposter (2014), Un enfant commode (2013), and Monsieur l’assassin X (2012).
Feature films
Short films
Accolades
My Life as a Courgette (2016)
Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des réalisateurs) – May 2016
International Animation Film Festival, Annecy, Official competition – June 2016 / PUBLIC PRIZE AND CRISTAL FOR BEST FEATURE FILM
MIFF – Melbourne International Film Festival, (1st international screening) – July 2016 /AUDIENCE AWARD
FFA – Festival du film francophone d'Angoulême, Compétition – August 2016 / GRAND PRIX (Valois de Diamant)
TIFF – Toronto Internanational Film Festival – September 2016
The Genie in a Ravioli Can (2006)
Anvers, European Youth Film Festival of Flanders, Best Short Film 2007
Bristol, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, New Talent Award 2006
Genève, Animatou Festival international du film d'animation – Genève, Prix du public Kodak, Meilleur court métrage 2006
Genève 11, FROG – Festival du Film Romand à Genève, Mention spéciale 2006
Melbourne, Australian International Film Festival, The Golden Spotlight Award – Best Short Film 2006
Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela – Festival Int. de Curta CURTOCIRCUITO, «Kodak 35 mm» Award for the Best Short Film shot on 35 mm 2006
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage, Prix du Public SSA/Suissimage 2006
References
External links
Rita Productions
Swiss films
Swiss film directors
Swiss animated film directors
Swiss animated film producers
Swiss film producers
1973 births
Living people
People from Sierre
Swiss animators
ÉCAL alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2062 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 62 is a Sustrans National Route that runs from Fleetwood to Selby. As of 2018 the route has a missing section between Preston and Southport but is otherwise open and signed.
History
Much of route 62 was created as part of the Trans Pennine Trail, a long-distance path running from coast to coast across Northern England. It forms part of European walking route E8. It was given the route number 62 in reference to the M62 motorway which it running parallel to between Liverpool and Selby.
Route
Fleetwood to Hutton
The western trailhead is in Fleetwood. The route follows the coast on traffic-free paths to Lytham St Annes via Blackpool. From Lytham, the route follows minor roads to the western outskirts of Preston. Passing through the city centre the route reaches Hutton. From here to the northern edge of Southport the route has yet to be determined.
Southport to Stockport
From Southport to Widnes the route is extensively traffic-free. It is mainly made up of old railway lines including the Liverpool Loop Line through the city's eastern suburbs. Continuing on canals and old railway lines between Widnes and Altrincham. The route then follows the River Mersey though Manchester southern suburbs to reach Stockport.
Stockport to Selby
Route 62 continues from Stockport on a mixture of traffic-free and on-road routes. From Hadfield it crosses the Peak District, heading up the Longdendale valley via the Longdendale Trail to Woodhead, then down through Dunford Bridge, Penistone and Doncaster. The eastern trailhead is in Selby where it meets Route 65.
Local routes and trails
Several sections of Route 62 are signed as local routes or trails. These include:
Longdendale Trail
Liverpool Loop Line
Slow Tour of Yorkshire Stage 14: Barnsley to Old Moor RSPB Reserve
Slow Tour of Yorkshire Stage 15: Penistone to Dunford Bridge
Slow Tour of Yorkshire Stage 17: Doncaster to Conisbrough
Related NCN routes
Route 62 meets the following routes:
Route 622 at Preston
Route 6 at Preston and Reddish Vale
Route 55 at Preston, East Didsbury and Stockport
Route 56 at Liverpool
Route 82 at Widness and Stretford
Route 85 at West Didsbury
Route 558 at Stockport
Route 68 at Charlesworth and Dunford Bridge
Route 627 at Millhouse and Green Oxspring
Route 67 at Barnsley and Brampton
Route 65 at Selby
Route 62 is part of the Trans Pennine Trail (east) along with Route 65.
Route 62 is part of the Pennine Cycleway along with Route 68.
References
External links
Route 62 on Sustrans
Cycleways in England
Pennines
Transport in Merseyside |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Goals | Western Goals may refer to:
The Western Goals Foundation, a private intelligence dissemination network active on the right-wing in the United States
The Western Goals Institute, a conservative pressure group in Britain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Hits | MTV Hits is a music video-only spin-off cable/satellite television channel of MTV in several international markets, originally based on the pop music format of a defunct programming block on the American MTV itself. It may refer to the following channels:
MTV Hits (Australian and New Zealand TV channel)
MTV Hits (British and Irish TV channel)
MTV Hits (European TV channel)
MTV Hits (French TV channel)
MTV Hits (Latin American TV channel)
NickMusic, an American channel formerly known as MTV Hits from May 1, 2002 until September 9, 2016
VH1 MegaHits, a Brazilian channel formerly known as MTV Hits from 2002 until 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable%20document | A machine-readable document is a document whose content can be readily processed by computers. Such documents are distinguished from more general machine-readable data by virtue of having further structure to provide the necessary context to support the business processes for which they are created.
Definition
Data without context (language use) is meaningless and lacks the four essential characteristics of trustworthy business records specified in ISO 15489 Information and documentation -- Records management:
Reliability
Authenticity
Integrity
Usability
The vast bulk of information is unstructured data and, from a business perspective, that means it is "immature", i.e., Level 1 (chaotic) of the Capability Maturity Model. Such immaturity fosters inefficiency, diminishes quality, and limits effectiveness. Unstructured information is also ill-suited for records management functions, provides inadequate evidence for legal purposes, drives up the cost of discovery in litigation, and makes access and usage needlessly cumbersome in routine, ongoing business processes.
There are at least four aspects to machine-readability:
First, words or phrases should be discretely delineated (tagged) so that computer software and/or hardware logic can be applied to them as individual conceptual elements.
Second, the semantics of each element should be specified so that computers can help human beings achieve a common understanding of their meanings and potential usages.
Third, if the relationships among the individual elements are also specified, computers can automatically apply inferences to them, thereby further relieving human beings of the burden of trying to understand them, particularly for purposes of inquiry, discovery, and analysis.
Fourth, if the structures of the documents in which the elements occur are also specified, human understanding is further enhanced and the data becomes more reliable for legal and business-quality purposes.
As early as 1983, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) began emphasizing the benefits of machine-readable information. Still sooner, in 1981, GAO began reporting on the problem of inadequate record-keeping practices in the U.S. federal government. Such deficiencies are not unique to government and advances in information technology mean that most information is now "born digital" and thus potentially far more easily managed by automated means. However, in testimony to Congress in 2010, GAO highlighted problems with managing electronic records, and as recently as 2015, GAO has continued to report inadequacies in the performance of Executive Branch agencies in meeting records management requirements.
Moreover, more than two decades after a major and formerly highly respected auditing firm, Arthur Andersen, met its demise due to a records destruction scandal, record-keeping practices became a central issue in the 2016 Presidential election.
On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed H.R. 214 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate-Alliance%20Germany | Climate-Alliance Germany () is a network of about 150 civil society organizations, including environment groups, development groups, churches, organisations from the fields of youth, education, culture, social welfare and health, as well as trade unions, and consumer associations. Founded in 2007, the aim of the Alliance is to provide a common front to apply pressure to German decision-makers to adopt socially just climate action measures. Prominent members include WWF, BUND (or Friends of the Earth Germany), and the trade union ver.di.
A key issue for the Alliance is the prevention of new coal-fired power plants (the Anti-Coal Campaign). The Alliance wants the German government to phase-out coal (Kohleausstieg) and promote renewable energy.
Activities
Coordination of Climate Protection Plan 2050 and Programme of Measures 2030
Coordinated by Climate Alliance Germany, more than 50 organisations published the "Climate Protection Plan 2050 of German Civil Society" in November 2016 as a result of a broad participation process. In it, they call for more ambitious climate protection targets and legal binding force. As a national response to the Paris Climate Agreement, the German government had previously published its Climate Protection Plan 2050, which was criticised by Climate Alliance Germany as insufficient.
Climate Alliance Germany then coordinated the "Climate Protection 2030 Action Programme of German Civil Society". More than sixty organisations from across the spectrum of civil society describe in the extensive demands paper the measures they see as necessary in all fields of climate policy in order for Germany to achieve its climate target of 2030. The central demands are an early exit from coal, the rapid implementation of changes in the transport and agricultural sectors, and an ambitious price for . Both projects were funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment.
Berlin Climate Talks
Since November 2015, Climate Alliance Germany has hosted the Berlin Climate Talks on changing topics several times a year. The events take place in cooperation with its member organisations. The panel guests have already included several federal ministers, state secretaries and party leaders. The first event was dedicated to civil society proposals for a more climate-friendly air transport concept for Germany.
Anti-Coal Campaign
Climate Alliance Germany advocates an ambitious coal phase-out. The reduction of coal generation and coal mining is a key element in meeting German and international climate targets and achieving the necessary decarbonisation in terms of effective climate protection. For this reason, the Alliance demands that no new opencast mines be approved. Existing opencast mines in the Rhineland lignite mining area, in Lusatia and in Central Germany are not to be expanded but reduced in size.
The structural change in the lignite regions must be actively shaped politically and financially secured, for example through a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzie%27s%20Way%20Home | Izzie's Way Home is a 2016 American computer-animated fantasy adventure film produced by The Asylum. It is The Asylum's first animated feature, and is a mockbuster of the 2016 Pixar Animation Studios film Finding Dory.
Plot
Izzie is a fish who lives with her father Harold in an aquarium, and is frequently bullied by the other fish in the vicinity. Harold tries to protect Izzie from being returned to the ocean by the human who maintains the aquarium, as that very event is what separated them from Izzie's mother. Izzie and Harold do end up being returned to the sea, and are separated during the eruption of an underwater volcano. A boat holding the aquarium tips over, causing the other fish to spill into the waters. Izzie befriends the other fish as she and her father search for one another.
Cast
Bonnie Dennison as Izzie, a young female purple queen anthias
Tom Virtue as Harold, Izzie's father, and Jimmy, an octopus
Tori Spelling as April, a canary rockfish
Zack Ward as Thurston, a British accented silver moonfish
Joey Fatone as Carl, a sea cucumber
Dawn Richard as Ginger, Carmel and Marcie, a trio of goldfish
Lynne Marie Stewart as Clara, Izzie's mother, and Beatrice, a goblin shark
Camille Licate as June, a pot-bellied seahorse, and Mona, an elderly green moray
Paul M. Walker as Seymour, a blobfish
Kim Little as Kristin, a sunset anthias
Reception
Dove found the movie to be appropriate for all ages. CG Animated Review considered "while the film wasn't great, it was better than expected, and a good effort for the Asylum's first animated film".
References
External links
2016 computer-animated films
The Asylum films
American computer-animated films
Films about cephalopods
Animated films about fish
Mockbuster films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant%20Stellar | The Avant Stellar is a mechanical keyboard that was produced by Creative Vision Technologies Inc (CVT). It was the successor to the popular and successful OmniKey keyboard by Northgate Computers, and was regarded as being very similar to the OmniKey Plus. It is no longer in production.
References
Footnotes
Sources
Further reading
External links
Definition at the PC Magazine Encyclopedia
Computer keyboard models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaganti%20Venkata%20Rao | IVR, better known as Inaganti Venkata Rao, is a journalist and political analyst. He is the Chairman of Monica Broadcasting, a holding company which owns the Mahaa News Network, the operator of Mahaa News Channel. He is also the Ex-Chairman of the Press Academy of Andhra Pradesh. He is the former editor of Andhra Jyothi, a widely circulated newspaper.
Personal life
Inaganti Venkata Rao was born on 7 August 1942. He is currently the Chairman of Mahaa News Network. He started his career by joining Andhra Patrika Daily in 1964. Later, he worked at Andhra Jyothi as a Sub-Editor. His career changed when he joined as Bureau Chief of Andhra Jyothi at Hyderabad in 1979. Soon after, he became Resident Editor of Andhra Jyothi in 1989 and then later took charge as Editor of Andhra Jyothi. He is one of the few Telugu journalists to have visited the Soviet Union – for two weeks in May 1988 as one among the three-member Indian Press delegation that took part in the Indian Festival. He is known to have visited China for documenting the historic visit of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in December 1988. He later visited the United States in 1990 on the invitation of USIS under the International Visitors (IV) programme as a member of a team that toured extensively in the US for four weeks. The subject of study of the team was federalism, local governments, and their functioning in the USA.
His weekly political analysis, "Uluku Paluku," was the most popular column in Telugu. The column appeared for 14 years (up to year 2000). It brought fame the name, and is considered as source material on Andhra Politics. Now his political analysis hour, called "Editors Time," is immensely popular and possibly the main reason behind continued the operation of Mahaa.
Known for his love of Telugu language and literature, in 2001 he started non-profit magazine "patrika," a purely Telugu literary monthly magazine. It operated for a decade solely through subscriptions from other Telugu literary pandits.
Bibliography
He is the author of several books, of which some are:
1. Rajasuyam (Compilations of articles on current politics)
3. Viswa Vihaaram - a travelogue.
Magazine articles
1. Telugu Velugulu - a compilation of pen portraits of eminent Telugus published in Andhra Patrika weekly in the 1960s.
2. Kothakeratalu in 2003 - a compilation of pen portraits of eminent Telugus published in the 1970s in Andhra Jyothi weekly.
Positions
Ex-Chairman, AP Press Academy
Chairman, Mahaa News Network
References
External links
https://www.zaubacorp.com/director/VENKATA-RAO-INAGANTI/02181867
http://www.pressacademy.ap.gov.in/profile_ivenkatrao.asp
http://telugutvnews.blogspot.com/2008/08/ivr-too-in-channel-race.html
http://sreeszone.blogspot.com/2011/09/okkadu-inaganti-venkatrao-political.html
https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/INAGANTI-BROADCASTING-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U92412TG2012PTC080906
http://www.pressacademy.ap.gov.in/venkatarao.asp
1936 births
Living people
Businesspeople from A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics%20of%20open%20data | The economics of open data refers to the production, or loss, of wealth related to the use of open data. The cost of open data is a primary concern that can deter governments any companies from the opening up of data. While open data may theoretically have a low production cost, the cost of creating the original data set as well as maintaining that data once it is produced can be expensive. Though the creation of data may be expensive governments around the world such as France, the United States, and Japan, are anticipating substantial economic growth.
Open Data vs. Paid Data
Open data has the capability to increase economic benefit through both individuals' and companies' use of the information. As of March 2016, it was estimated that open data was generating 0.5% more GDP compared to paid data. The creation of open data relies on either funding from government to create and maintain the data or funding in the form of grants and volunteers. Data made open by governments largely relies on the publication of public service research. Because the data has already been created for a purpose, there is no creation cost for it to be made available to the public.
The opening of data requires current and advance technologies as well as the employment of users who are skilled enough to complete such work. When data is collected it cannot be presented to the public in its raw form and may be inaccessible due to the program is uses or how the data is presented may be unusable. Time and funding is required to be reallocated by those who create the original dataset in order to make the data more accessible and usable for citizens to understand and engage with. When government is the main source of funding for the production of data it does not necessarily mean that they are the singular entity creating or managing the data. Governments sometimes contract out the creation or management of data to a third party. In some cases the third party may provide access to the data in exchange for a nominal fee. Citizen led initiatives face similar issues, such as the requirement of time and funding. For these types of initiatives it can be especially difficult because they do not have access to a guaranteed steady income such as taxpayer money; these organizations largely depend on donations.
Paying for the use of public data would cover some of the costs associated with creating, maintaining and formatting data, although it would reduced the economic value of what once was opened by 50%. Paying for the data that is now available for free would result in a lack of innovation, decreasing the GDP, as well as an increase in the cost of services created from use of purchased data. The opening of data reduces costs associated with licensing that is usually associated with paid data, as it costs more money to license a dataset than to have no license at all, though there are open datasets that use licensing as well. The opening of data itself does not simply create econom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative%20data | Administrative data are collected by governments or other organizations for non-statistical reasons to provide overviews on registration, transactions, and record keeping. They evaluate part of the output of administrating a program. Border records, pensions, taxation, and vital records like births and deaths are examples of administrative data. These types of data are used to produce management information, like registration data in a cost-effective way. This enables administrative data, when turned into indicators, to show trends over time and reflect real world information. The management of this information includes the Internet, software, technology, telecommunications, databases and management systems, system development methods, information systems, etc. Managing the resources of the public sector is a complex routine. It begins with the collection of data, then goes through the hardware and software that stores, manipulates, and transforms the data. Public policies then are addressed, including organizational policies and procedures.
History
Records of land holding have been used to administer taxes around the world for many centuries. In the nineteenth century international institutions for cooperation was established, such as the International Statistical Institute.
In recent decades administrative data on individuals and organization are increasingly computerized and systematic and therefore more feasibly usable for statistics, although they do not come from random samples. Using the reporting tools of routine reports, audit trails, and computer programming to cross examine databases, administrative data are increasingly used for research.
The appeal of administrative data is its ready availability, low cost, and the fact that it can span over multiple years. The government produces this kind of data because it provides a historical insight and is not invasive to the population. These data record individuals who may not respond to surveys which allows the administrative system to retain more complete records. The information that the census can provide the administrative system is limited financially and is subject to time constraints which is why administrative data can be valuable, especially when linked.
Open and linked administrative data
Open administrative data allows transparency, participation, efficiency, and economic innovation. Linked administrative data allows for the creation of large data-sets and has become a vital tool for central and local governments conducting research. By linking sections of data individually, the online web of administrative data-sets are built. For example, opening public sector data in Europe increased users 1000%. This 2011 study covered 21 open data projects in 10 countries with marginal cost operations. The Open Data Ottawa program was launched in 2010 in order to engage citizens, create transparency, reduce costs, and promote collaboration with the public. Administrative data is sough |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Muppets%20Movie%20Adventures | The Muppets Movie Adventures is a 2014 platform game developed by Virtual Toys and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, exclusively for the PlayStation Vita handheld system. The title is based on the films The Muppets and Muppets Most Wanted. The game centres around the production of a movie, with characters from The Muppets era serving as the characters in the respective film. The Muppets Movie Adventures was released in Europe on November 5, 2014, with physical copies arriving a short time later. The North American version arrived a year later. Upon launch, the title received mixed to negative reviews.
The game is narrated by Cheryl Henson, daughter of The Muppets era creator Jim Henson and the current president of the Jim Henson Foundation.
Gameplay
The Muppets Movie Adventures is a 2-dimensional side-scrolling platform game in which players traverse landscapes based on famous films, jumping across obstacles and exploring the terrain. Enemies appear in each chapter, who have the ability to swing or throw projectiles at the player (these vary depending on the stage). If hit, the player loses half of a heart; with three hearts being available, the gamer may receive a maximum of five hits before restarting from a nearby checkpoint. Hearts are scattered throughout the level. When collected, the life bar is restored to maximum capacity. Controlled characters also house weapons however, which allows the player to attack and defeat enemies. Mini-games in the style of dots and boxes are also scattered throughout levels. These puzzles must be solved in order for the player to progress through the stage.
Each stage features a different player character and is centered around a particular movie genre (for example, level three is a western film), and features a unique story not related to other levels. At the end of each stage is a boss battle. Scattered throughout each level are collectibles as well.
Stages/Synopsis
There are a total of five stages in The Muppets Movie Adventures. Each stage is locked (with the exception of the first one) until the level before it is completed.
Stage One: Greenlegs: The Swashbuckling Pirate Frog
Based on: Original Story?
Theme: Pirate
The players control Kermit the Frog playing the role of "Captain Greenlegs" who is the captain of the pirate ship called the Rapid Mosquito. Greenlegs is described as a pirate Robin Hood, as he donates portions of his loot to those in need. This action has garnered the captain considered popularity with the public, including "being voted pirate of the year the last ten years by Pirate Monthly Magazine". However, the tyrannical Guard Chief Sweetums is jealous of Greenlegs, feeling he should be the hero of the citizens. Guard Chief Sweetums captures Greenelegs, tying him over a pool of sharks to eliminate the pirate. However, Greenlegs escapes. The player then assumes control, with the task of traversing though the local town on route to your ship, in order to make a safe getaway. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirgantara%20Air%20Service%20Flight%203130 | Dirgantara Air Service Flight 3130 (DIR3130/AW3130) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Dirgantara Air Service from Datah Dawai Airport, Malinau Regency, East Kalimantan to its provincial capital's airport, Samarinda Temindung Airport, Samarinda, East Kalimantan. On 18 November 2000, the aircraft conducting the flight, a Britten Norman Islander BN-2 sheared tree tops and crashed onto the forest near the airport shortly after takeoff. Search and rescue team immediately found the wreckage of Flight 3130 and the survivors. No one was killed in the crash, but all 18 people on board were injured in the crash; 11 of them were seriously hurt.
The final report, published by the National Transportation Safety Committee, concluded that the crash was caused due to multiple factors, which were pilot error, overloading, and lack of safety in the airport (bribery). The wrong perception by the pilot, added with the plane overloading that was caused by bribery, subsequently causing the plane to crash. The airline ceased operations in 2009 and officially went bankrupt in 2013.
Accident
The Britten Norman Islander took off at 10:51 local time, carrying a total of 17 passengers, including 2 infants and a 5-month-pregnant woman, and 1 crew member on board. Shortly after takeoff, the airport radio operator noticed that the aircraft disappeared behind the forest. The aircraft contacted the first tree and started to veering to the left. It then hit another tree and began zigzagging. The aircraft then contacted the third tree and started to lose control. The landing gear then struck the last contacted tree and then it crashed upside down onto the forest floor. Both wings were ripped off from the fuselage, with fuels leaking from the right wing tip. This created a dangerous post-impact fire risk, as the soil type in Borneo was often flammable.
A search and rescue party was quickly assembled by Datah Dawai Airport authorities shortly after the crash. The wreckage was eventually found 2 kilometers from the airport. All 18 people on board, including 2 infants and a 5-month pregnant woman, were injured with 11 of them were seriously hurt. The crew of the aircraft, identified as Captain Abdul Hayi, had to be transported to Jakarta due to broken legs. The injured were taken to local hospital and the Wahab Sjachrani Civic Hospital in Samarinda. The aircraft was a total loss, with the front section of the aircraft "totally wrecked". The rudder and the vertical stabilizers were found 7 meters from the main wreckage. The fuselage was crushed and bent severely. Passengers and crews initially trapped inside the wreckage. The seats inside the aircraft had to thrown out from the aircraft in order to evacuate the survivors.
Background
The aircraft involved in the crash was a Britten Norman Islander BN-2, registered in Indonesia as PK-VIY. Manufactured in 1981 in United Kingdom, it had accrued a total cycle of 22.336 hours. It had one crew seat and a total of 9 pas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20S2 | The Apple S2 is the integrated computer in the Apple Watch Series 2, and it is described as a "System in Package" (SiP) by Apple Inc.
It was revealed on September 7, 2016, with very little info about specifications. Apple says its two cores deliver 50% higher performance and the GPU delivers twice as much as the predecessor, the Apple S1. The S1P SiP shipped in the Apple Watch Series 1 is a stripped down version of the S2 that lacks the GPS functionality, it is otherwise identical.
System-in-Package design
It uses a customized application processor that together with 512 MB memory, 8 GB storage and support processors for wireless connectivity, GPS, sensors and I/O constitute a complete computer in a single package. This package is filled with resin for durability.
Components
The device integrates discrete components like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC, touch controller, accelerometers, barometric sensor and RAM. In total, there are 42 individual silicon dies integrated into the single S2 component.
Images
See also
Apple silicon, the range of ARM-based processors designed by Apple.
Apple Watch
References
Apple silicon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20Known | Lesser Known is the second studio album of Adventure, a project by Baltimore musician Benny Boeldt. Released by Carpark Records in March 2011, Lesser-Known is an anthemic synthpop with non-computer-controlled synthesizers and live instruments; this is a departure from Adventure's previous self-titled album that consisted NES video game-style synthpop. Reviews from music journalists were mixed in general, some critics dismissing it as a record only imitating old music.
Production and composition
In making Lesser Known, Benny Boeldt departed from the instrumental NES video game style of synthpop that was on Adventure's 2008 self-titled debut studio album, and went for commemorative-sounding synthpop using live instruments and maximalist M83-esque non-computer-controlled synthesizers. He described the change as a "shift in consciousness", allowing for more flexible musical creation than working within the style of the project's previous record. He taught himself how to sing while making the album, and went he got to recording the live instruments, he "had developed a nice vocal range", as he said in an interview. The first half of Lesser Known consists of Pet Shop Boys and Yazz-influenced chillwave, while the latter half consists of acid house and rave music.
Release and promotion
Two singles were released from Lesser Known, "Feels Like Heaven" on January 11, 2011 and "Rio" on February 17, 2011.
Boeldt worked with Elena Johnston in creating what was described as the "pretty ominous" cover art for Lesser-Known, whom Johnston chose the pictures and helped him put the chosen images together on the artwork.
Reception
Reviews from music journalists upon release were generally mixed. Some reviewers disliked Lesser Known for having the same main problem as Adventure's debut album, that it only focused on recreating old music that was already easy to access both online and retro 1980s music stations without trying to cross over any boundaries or taking any chances. A critic from Under the Radar was one of these reviewers, describing Lesser Known as more "utterly predictable" than "nostalgic". Reviewers from Tiny Mix Tapes and NME were disappointed, writing that there were few tracks on the album that showed hints that it could've been much more than just an retro recreation record.
In more favorable reviews, Pitchfork Media honored Lesser-Known as a "riskily successful work of growth from Boeldt"; the source praised his attempt of singing with "often great success" on the record, writing, " Lesser-Known, then, is about self-exploration in unexplored territory, and how to lose yourself in that void. Boeldt's escaped, and it sounds like he's all the better for it." While finding it not as good as Adventure's previous LP, a The 405 critic wrote that "this can be seen as a transitional release or an experiment to test the waters of this project and for that, I cannot fully say that this fails, because it doesn't." The Line of Best Fit journalist Andrew Hw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20data%20studies | Critical data studies is the systematic study of data and its criticisms. The field was named by scholars Craig Dalton and Jim Thatcher. Prior to its naming, significant interest in critical data studies was generated by danah boyd and Kate Crawford, who posed a set of research questions for the critical study of big data and its impacts on society and culture. As its name implies, critical data studies draws heavily on the influence of critical theory which it applies to the study of data. Subsequently, others have worked to further solidify a field called critical data studies. Some of the other key scholars in this discipline include Rob Kitchin and Tracey P. Lauriault. Scholars have attempted to make sense of data through different theoretical frameworks, some of which include analyzing data technically, ethically, politically/economically, temporally/spatially, and philosophically. Some of the key academic journals related to critical data studies include the Journal of Big Data and Big Data and Society.
Motivation
In their article in which they coin the term 'critical data studies,' Dalton and Thatcher also provide several justifications as to why data studies is a discipline worthy of a critical approach. First, 'big data' is an important aspect of twenty-first century society, and the analysis of 'big data' allows for a deeper understanding of what is happening and for what reasons. Furthermore, big data as a technological tool and the information that it yields are not neutral, according to Dalton and Thatcher, making it worthy of critical analysis in order to identify and address its biases. Building off this idea, another justification for a critical approach is that the relationship between big data and society is an important one, and therefore worthy of study. Dalton and Thatcher stress how the relationship is not an example of technological determinism, but rather how big data can shape the lives of individuals. Big data technology can cause significant changes in society's structure and in the everyday lives of people, and, being a product of society, big data technology is worthy of sociological investigation. Moreover, data sets are almost never completely raw, that is to say without any influences. Rather, data are shaped by the vision or goals of a research team, and during the data collection process, certain things are quantified, stored, sorted and even discarded by the research team. A critical approach is thus necessary in order to understand and reveal the intent behind the information being presented. Moreover, data alone cannot speak for themselves; in order to possess any concrete meaning, data must be accompanied by theoretical insight or alternative quantitative or qualitative research measures. Dalton and Thatcher argue that if one were to only think of data in terms of its exploitative power, there is no possibility of using data for revolutionary, liberatory purposes. Finally, Dalton and Thatcher propose that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Touhill | Brigadier General Gregory (Greg) J. Touhill is Director of the world renowned Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Division. Previously, he was the president of AppGate Federal Group (previously Cyxtera Federal Group).
He was previously appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Federal Chief Information Security Officer of the United States, stepping down in January, 2017.
He was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, National Programs and Protection Directorate, Department of Homeland Security. While at DHS he concurrently served as Director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) during 2014–2015.
In his last military assignment, he was Chief Information Officer and Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Cyber Systems at U.S. Transportation Command. While there, his unit received the National Security Agency's Rowlett Award for the best Cybersecurity program in the US government.
He authored a book in 2014 called "Cybersecurity for Executives". In 2007 he co-authored Commercialization of Innovative Technologies. Both books are published by John Wiley and Sons.
General Touhill maintains the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) professional Cybersecurity certifications. He also serves as an ISACA Board Director and is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, instructing on Cyber Risk Management.
In addition to numerous military awards, including two awards of the Defense Superior Service Medal, three awards of the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star medal, General Touhill has been recognized with many professional awards. These include the 2022 Baldrige Leadership Award in cybersecurity, Security Magazine’s 2022 Top Cybersecurity Leaders, ISC2's 2017 F. Lynn McNulty Tribute Award and the 2016 GISLA Leadership Award, Security Magazine's Top 50 in Security, FedScoop's Cybersecurity Leadership Award, and the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
United States Air Force generals
United States Office of Management and Budget officials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoneyPass | MoneyPass is an interbank network owned by Brookfield, Wisconsin-based Fiserv, the third largest North American financial services company by revenue.
Previously, MoneyPass had been owned by Elan Financial Services, a business unit of U.S. Bank. MoneyPass provides surcharge-free ATM services to North American MoneyPass consumer/cardholders whose transactions utilize a MoneyPass supported ATM and has become the second largest surcharge free ATM network in the United States.
There are 61,000 surcharge-free MoneyPass ATMs in the United States, located at financial institutions and retail locations.
More than 95 million consumers have access to MoneyPass ATMs.
History
Genpass, Inc., formed the MoneyPass ATM network in October 2003 by merging two existing regional ATM networks that it had already owned, MoneyMaker in Texas and MoneyBelt in Tennessee. Union Planters, with nearly 900 ATMs located in 12 states, was a charter member. In December 2003, the regional supermarket chain Minyard Food Stores installed MoneyPass ATMs at its 72 stores. By June 2004, MoneyPass had 200 participants and 8,000 ATMs. Zions Bank joined in September 2004, adding 200 ATMs in Utah and Idaho. Credit Union 24, which represents 410 credit unions with a total of 2,800 ATMs in 23 states, made a reciprocal agreement in November 2004 which would allow members of each networks to access ATMs on the other network surcharge free.
MoneyPass had 8,000 ATMs in all 50 states by the time Citibank joined its network in October 2004 which added 2,600 Citibank ATMs to the network.
U.S. Bancorp acquired Genpass along with MoneyPass for an undisclosed amount in May 2005 and added its ATMs to the network to form a 12,000 ATM network in June 2006.
In June 2005, KeyCorp signed an agreement with MoneyPass to allow Credit Unions and its other financial institutional clients that it services the option to connect to the MoneyPass network. This agreement only affected financial institutional clients and not KeyBank customers. As a part of the agreement, KeyBank customers were not given access to MoneyPass and MoneyPass customers were not allowed free access to KeyBank's large ATM network. In July 2012, Kroger signed an agreement with U.S. Bancorp to have its Kroger Prepaid Debit Card customers be allowed surcharge free access at all MoneyPass ATMs.
In August 2017, 7-Eleven signed an agreement with MoneyPass to have its ATMs at 8,000 of its 10,900 its American stores be a part of the surcharge free network.
In September 2018, Fiserv announced that it would acquire MoneyPass from US Bancorp for $690 million. The deal was finalized in March 2019. At the time of the sale, MoneyPass had 33,000 ATMs.
See also
ATM usage fees
Debit Card
References
External links
Paypal's MoneyPass cash card
Interbank networks
Banking in the United States
2003 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Parquet | Apache Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is similar to RCFile and ORC, the other columnar-storage file formats in Hadoop, and is compatible with most of the data processing frameworks around Hadoop. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk.
History
The open-source project to build Apache Parquet began as a joint effort between Twitter and Cloudera. Parquet was designed as an improvement on the Trevni columnar storage format created by Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop. The first version, Apache Parquet1.0, was released in July 2013. Since April 27, 2015, Apache Parquet has been a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project.
Features
Apache Parquet is implemented using the record-shredding and assembly algorithm, which accommodates the complex data structures that can be used to store data. The values in each column are stored in contiguous memory locations, providing the following benefits:
Column-wise compression is efficient in storage space
Encoding and compression techniques specific to the type of data in each column can be used
Queries that fetch specific column values need not read the entire row, thus improving performance
Apache Parquet is implemented using the Apache Thrift framework, which increases its flexibility; it can work with a number of programming languages like C++, Java, Python, PHP, etc.
As of August 2015, Parquet supports the big-data-processing frameworks including Apache Hive, Apache Drill, Apache Impala, Apache Crunch, Apache Pig, Cascading, Presto and Apache Spark. It is one of external data formats used by pandas Python data manipulation and analysis library.
Compression and encoding
In Parquet, compression is performed column by column, which enables different encoding schemes to be used for text and integer data. This strategy also keeps the door open for newer and better encoding schemes to be implemented as they are invented.
Dictionary encoding
Parquet has an automatic dictionary encoding enabled dynamically for data with a small number of unique values (i.e. below 105) that enables significant compression and boosts processing speed.
Bit packing
Storage of integers is usually done with dedicated 32 or 64 bits per integer. For small integers, packing multiple integers into the same space makes storage more efficient.
Run-length encoding (RLE)
To optimize storage of multiple occurrences of the same value, a single value is stored once along with the number of occurrences.
Parquet implements a hybrid of bit packing and RLE, in which the encoding switches based on which produces the best compression results. This strategy works well for certain types of integer data and combines well with dictionary encoding.
Comparison
Apache Parquet is comparable to RCFile and Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file formats all three fall under the categ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undisputed%20%28sports%20show%29 | Undisputed is an American sports talk show program on Fox Sports 1. Episodes air live Monday through Friday from 9:30 am EST until noon. The show broadcast from the Fox Network Center in the Century City neighborhood and business district of Los Angeles, California.
History
The series premiered on Fox Sports 1 on September 6, 2016.
On June 13, 2023, one day after that year’s NBA Finals ended, Sharpe officially announced that it would be his final episode co-hosting the show with Bayless. Soon after the show went on a brief hiatus the following month. In late August the show returned with a brand new cast featuring former NFL Stars Richard Sherman, Keyshawn Johnson, and Michael Irvin alongside Bayless.
Cast
Skip Bayless: (2016–present)
Keyshawn Johnson (2023–present)
Michael Irvin (2023–present)
Rachel Nichols: (2023–present)
Richard Sherman: (2023–present)
Lil Wayne: (2023–present)
Josina Anderson: (2023–present)
Host (full-time)
Joy Taylor: (2016–2018)
Jenny Taft: (2018–2022)
Jen Hale: (2022–2023)
Shannon Sharpe: (2016–2023)
Skip Bayless: (2023–present)
Frequent & past guest analysts
Chris Broussard: NBA/NFL Analyst
Rob Parker: NBA/NFL/MLB Analyst
Eddie House: NBA Analyst
Emmanuel Acho: NFL analyst
Michael Vick: NFL Analyst
Reggie Bush: NFL/College Football Analyst
Greg Jennings: NFL Analyst
Stephen Jackson: NBA Analyst
LaVar Arrington: NFL Analyst
Colin Cowherd: NBA/NFL Analyst
Eric Dickerson: NFL Analyst
Orlando Scandrick: NFL analyst
Ray Lewis: NFL analyst
Ric Bucher: NBA analyst
Tony Gonzalez: NFL analyst
Cris Carter: NFL analyst
DeAngelo Hall: NFL analyst
Plaxico Burress: NFL analyst
Kenyon Martin: NBA analyst
Jason McIntyre: NFL/NBA Analyst
Theme song
The show's opening theme song, "No Mercy", was recorded by American rapper Lil Wayne, a friend of Bayless' and a frequent guest from his former ESPN show First Take. The song was written and produced by Jared Gutstadt, president and CCO of Jingle Punks Music, which had partnered with Fox Sports prior to the show's launch. The full-length version of "No Mercy" was released by Cash Money Records to iTunes in September 2016, and Lil Wayne appeared on Undisputeds inaugural episode on September 6 and has since regularly made guest appearances. In 2023, Lil Wayne released the new opening theme song for the revamped Undisputed called "Good Morning".
Viewership
Undisputed averaged 107,000 viewers per episode from September 9 to December 31, 2016, and 155,000 viewers during 2017, representing a 45% increase in viewership.
During July 24–28 of that year, it averaged 136,000 viewers, 65,000 of which were adults in the 18–49 years of age range. Compared to competing weekday morning sports programs in the same time slot, it outdrew ESPN2's edition of Sportscenter (117,000) but fell behind First Take (320,000) in overall viewership.
In 2018, Undisputed averaged 165,000 viewers, and in 2019 through August 9, 2019), averaged 169,000 viewers. In 2021, the show averaged 199,000 view |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%2010%20%282016%20TV%20series%29 | Ben 10 is a reboot animated television series created by Man of Action for Cartoon Network. The series is served as a parallel world. The series premiered in Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific on October 1, 2016, and premiered in the United States on April 10, 2017, before concluding on April 11, 2021, after four seasons, a film, and three specials, the latter featuring a crossover with Generator Rex and previous Ben 10 television series continuity, via the concept of the multiverse.
A film based on the series, Ben 10 Versus the Universe: The Movie, was announced on February 19, 2020, and was aired on October 10, 2020.
Plot
Building on the highly successful franchise about kid hero Ben Tennyson, Ben 10 introduces a re-imagined Ben, his cousin Gwen, and Grandpa Max, as they travel the country during summer vacation. When Ben finds the Omnitrix, a mysterious watch that transforms him into 10 different aliens, a world of extraterrestrial superpowers opens up to him. The series is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and created and executive produced by Man of Action Entertainment (Big Hero 6, Generator Rex and the original four Ben 10 shows in their shared continuity), with John Fang (Mixels, Generator Rex) on board as supervising producer.
Season 1 (2017)
Ten-year-old Ben Tennyson has spent his summer vacation traveling across the country with his cousin Gwen and Grandpa Max, in an RV nicknamed the Rustbucket. However, after coming across a strange high-tech watch known as the Omnitrix, which enables him to transform into 10 alien heroes, he finds himself in the position of a superhero. At each place his family stops, Ben goes from trying to find a source of entertainment to doing battle against supervillains such as the mad scientist Dr. Animo, the dark sorcerer Hex, the psychotic clown Zombozo, the technology-loathing Steam Smythe, the emotionless Weatherheads, amongst other threats both big and small. Despite having lots to learn, he hones his hero skills with Gwen and Max's help.
While battling one of Animo's mutant creations during a trip to Portland, Ben unlocks an 11th alien he names Gax, a Chimera Sui Generis with laser vision and great strength. However, unlocking this form seems to have an odd effect on the Omnitrix, leaving him unable to control his transformations. To determine the source of this issue, Max calls in his old friend Phil. Ben finds himself under attack from three alien bounty hunters: Tetrax, Kraab, and Sixsix. While he's able to fend them off, he meets a mysterious aged Chimera Sui Generis calling himself "Vil", who trains Ben to use Gax's powers. However, it turns out "Vil" and Gax are the two halves of the alien conqueror Vilgax, who absorbs Gax's power to restore himself to full strength. The bounty hunter trio were hired to prevent Vilgax from reforming and thus team up with Ben to prevent Vilgax from destroying the Omnitrix. However, Vilgax wins this battle, dispatching the hunters and leaving Ben rapidly c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Chief%20Information%20Security%20Officer | The office of the Federal Chief Information Security Officer of the United States (CISO) was created on September 8 2016. The role of the CISO is to guide cybersecurity policy, planning, and implementation in the U.S. Federal Government. The first appointment to this position was Gregory Touhill, who stepped down in January 2017. He was replaced by Grant Schneider (formerly the Deputy CISO). Chris DeRusha was appointed in January 2021. The CISO position is in the Office of Management and Budget reporting to the U.S. Chief Information Officer. An acting deputy reports to the CISO.
References
National security of the United States
United States government secrecy
United States Office of Management and Budget officials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody%20Woodpecker%20%282017%20film%29 | Woody Woodpecker (also known as Woody Woodpecker: The Movie) is a 2017 American 3D live-action/computer-animated slapstick comedy film directed by Alex Zamm, based on the cartoon character of the same name created by Walter Lantz. The film stars Timothy Omundson, Graham Verchere, Jordana Largy and Thaila Ayala, and features Eric Bauza as the voice of Woody Woodpecker. The film's plot follows Woody protecting his forest from a real estate lawyer planning to build an investment house in his habitat.
While Woody Woodpecker was filmed in English, it was only released theatrically in the Latin American market, which the film catered to and where the character remains popular. Elsewhere, it was released primarily as a direct-to-video feature. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $15.3 million. A sequel is in development.
Plot
In the Pine Grove forest in Washington, Woody detects brothers Nate and Ottis Grimes, two taxidermist poachers who attempt to capture and sell him for money, and causes them to tranquilize each other. In Seattle, Lance Walters, a real estate lawyer, gets fired, after a video of him claiming wildlife conservation is unprofitable goes viral. He tells his glamorous girlfriend, Vanessa, that he intends to build an investment home on a large piece of property located near the Canadian border, left to him by his grandfather. Lance's ex-wife Linda leaves their son Tommy with him and Vanessa, since she needs to care for her hospitalized father in Philadelphia.
At the Pine Grove forest, Lance, Tommy, and Vanessa meet park ranger Samantha Bartlett. As Lance and Vanessa unpack, Tommy goes into the forest for a walk. There, he discovers and befriends Woody, after he gives him peanut butter cookies. Woody visits the family at lunchtime, and eats almost all of the food. Lance tries to shoo Woody away, but he accidentally wrecks the table and hits Vanessa in the face with a broom. The next morning, construction on the investment home begins, prompting an angered Woody to constantly cause chaos at the site. Later, in a nearby town, Tommy befriends a young musician named Jill, who persuades him to join her band in the annual Firefly Festival. Tommy is then saved from two bullies by Woody.
As days pass, Lance grows more frustrated, because of Woody's constant annoyance, mischief, chaos, and destruction of his project, and he goes to confront Samantha at the ranger station. She reveals Woody is an endangered species known as the pileated red-crowned woodpecker, which was thought to be extinct for 100 years and Native Americans saw as a god of mischief and chaos. Lance continues with his work, but Vanessa leaves him after Woody blows up their RV with her inside. Lance tries to get Nate and Ottis, who secretly still plan to sell Woody, to get rid of him, but he keeps outwitting them. Samantha advises Lance to make peace with Woody. Lance attempts to surrender to Woody, by giving him cookies, Woody agrees to let him |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Media%20101 | Sports Media 101 is an American digital media company based in New York that consists of a network of websites that cover professional and college level sports teams, including football, baseball, basketball, and hockey.
The company, also known as SM101, specializes in creating sports news content on an individual team basis.
History
Sports Media 101 was officially founded in 2011 by Dan Benton and Pieter VanIperen. However, the company has been growing since 2004 when Giants101, the first and flagship site in the network, was launched.
In June 2017, Sports Media 101 was acquired by Bloguin, Inc. a sports fan website formed in 2008. Bloguin also runs the Sports Daily, established in 2008, which is a collection of over 100 blogs. The site covers a variety of different sports leagues including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, UFC, English Premier League, Major League Soccer and the NCAA.
In connection with this acquisition, SM 101 is its own entity as an additional property under the Bloguin umbrella which further aims to feature the perfect mix of original content and aggregated news to keep readers informed. You’ll find list articles, reactionary columns, quick hits, game reports, rumors, podcasts and viral videos on this network of blogs.
Network Format
The network is divided into individual segments that each cover a specific major league or college level sports team such as Yankees101 for the New York Yankees, Knicks101 for the New York Knicks, Eagles101 for the Philadelphia Eagles, and Kings101 for the Los Angeles Kings. The article content is compiled from a constant stream of sports news coverage in a centralized location. This platform is an interactive space to enhance originality, customization and digital marketing offerings whereby users and partners experience an integrated digital media partnership through their own dedicated media arm.
Sponsorship Format
Sports Media 101 follows a unique sponsorship format in that each individual site within the network is corporate sponsored. The site and all of its social media accounts are cobranded for both the team site and corporate sponsor, allowing for consistent and daily exposure to the target audience without the use of banner advertising
References
Mass media companies based in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveTribe | DriveTribe is a social networking platform founded as a hub for automotive content and digital socialising. Founded by presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond alongside entrepreneur Ernesto Schmitt, the platform was characterised by its use of themed Tribes to build groups.
Launching to the public in late 2016, DriveTribe allowed users to find groups with unique characteristics and personalities that best reflected their motoring interests, whilst being able to create their own tribes. The platform was backed pre-launch by $5.5m from Breyer Capital via Jim Breyer, one of the first Facebook investors, and Atomico, followed by $6.5m from 21st Century Fox.
With a focus on motoring, the platform scaled rapidly, and by 2018, DriveTribe had 10 million daily active users and 140 million monthly users across its platforms. In 2021, the platform announced it was shifting to other social media platforms. DriveTribe has over 2.2 million subscribers on their YouTube as of August 2022.
History
DriveTribe was announced in April 2016, having been in stealth mode since December 2015, founded by the Top Gear trio; Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, alongside Ernesto Schmitt, a serial entrepreneur who has recently exited Beamly. Andy Wilman, the Top Gear producer was also noted as a founder. The platform was launched as the home for motoring, similar to what ‘Twitch (is) for video games or TripAdvisor for travel’. Variety noted that despite motoring being a ‘a bigger interest category than News & Current Affairs (410 million), Football (380 million) or Pets, Dating and Toys combined’, there was no single, massive online destination for motoring enthusiasts, until DriveTribe. The idea was that once successful, the Tribe model could be ‘extended [..] into other verticals, which could include fashion, music or food’.
The platform planned to ‘build an engine to send content that will specifically target the disparate communities that make up car fans — from petrolheads to classic car aficionados’, and users would be able to join ‘tribes’ that reflected their interests.
Launch
DriveTribe’s launch to much fanfare on November 28 was pre-empted by a teaser video from Clarkson, Hammond and May. Made up of thousands of tribes, including racing driver Oliver James Webb, motoring journalist Jethro Bovingdon, Finnish blogger Sara Nase, Mark Webber, Damon Hill and many others, the platform initially limited who was able to start a tribe. Clarkson called the platform “DriveTribe is YouPorn for Cars.”. By January 2017, there were 20,000 contributors. A quarter million content pieces were posted on DriveTribe in its first six weeks, with ‘with 2 million content views per day in January, up from 1 million in December, the platform’s first month of activity’. The company scaled to over 140m monthly platform users by 2021.
Tribes
DriveTribe hinged on the concept that users would sign up to the “tribe”, each with its own "unique characteristic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Panzer%20V%20variants | This is a list of Panzerkampfwagen V Panther variants, including prototypes, conversions and projected designs.
Production models
Data from:
Ausf. D
The first production series, (despite the designation), built by MAN, Daimler-Benz, MNH and Henschel. 850 built between January and September 1943.
Ausf. A (Panther I, VK3002, Sd.Kfz.171)
The second production series, (despite the designation), built by MAN, Daimler-Benz, Demag and MNH. 2,000 built between August 1943 to May 1944.
Ausf. G
The third production series, (despite the designation), built by MAN, Daimler-Benz, MNH. 3,126 built between March 1944 to April 1945.
Panzerbefehlswagen mit 7.5 cm KwK42 L/70
Panzerkampfwagen Panther (Sd.Kfz.171) (als Pz.Bef.Wg.) / Panzerbefehlswagen Panther Ausf. A (Sd.Kfz. 267)
329 converted with extra radio equipment and reduced ammunition storage.
Panzerbeobachtungswagen Panther
This artillery observation tank was converted from Panther Is by removing the main armament and fitting a dummy gun with a ball fitting for a machine gun on the blanked off turret front. 41 were converted late 1944 - early 1945.
Jagdpanther (Sd.Kfz.173)
Panzerjäger für 8.8cm PaK43 auf Fgst Panther I. A tank destroyer based on the Panther chassis with a 8.8cm PaK43 L/71 fitted to a fixed superstructure in a limited traverse mounting. 392 built by MIAG and MNH from January 1944 to March 1945.
Panzer-Bergegerät (Panther I) (Sd.Kfz.179)
Bergepanther armoured recovery vehicles using the Panther I chassis. 347 built or converted by Henschel, MAN and Demag.
Pilot models, prototypes and experimental designs
Data from:
VK 30.01 (D)
A prototype for the Panther from Daimler-Benz, closely following the T-34. The MAN design, however, was selected for production.
VK 30.02 (D)
A second prototype for the Panther from Daimler-Benz. The MAN design, however, was selected for production.Pz.Kpfw.V Ausf. F neuer Art'Development of the Schmalturm (small turret) was underway at the end of the war with prototype turrets completed. The Schmalturm'' was to have been fitted to the Ausf.F and the Panther II.
Panzerkampfwagen Panther II
An up-armoured Panther with revised suspension. Only two prototypes were completed before the end of the war and the Panther II was superseded by the E-50.
Geschützwagen Panther für sFH18/4 (Sf) (Gerät 811)
A weapon carrier / self-propelled artillery with de-mountable 15cm sFH18/4 heavy field howitzer. The sole prototype was completed by Daimler-Benz just before the war ended in 1945.
Jagdpanther Starr
A tank destroyer with rigidly mounted 8.8cm PaK43/1 L/71 under development by Krupp at war's end.
Sturmpanther
A projected assault tank mounting a 15 cm StuH43/1. Production was not started before the war ended.
Flakpanther 8.8 cm
Designs were laid for a Flakpanther mounting an 8.8cm FlaK 41 in an armoured turret.
Flakzwilling 3.7 cm auf Panther Fahrgestell "Flakpanzer Coelian" (Gerät 554)
A Flakpanzer project started in December 1943 mounting a double 3.7cm FlaK 43 i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Australian%20Bake%20Off%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of The Great Australian Bake Off premiered on 11 October 2016 on the LifeStyle Food network, and saw 12 home bakers take part in a bake-off to test their baking skills as they battled to be crowned The Great Australian Bake Off's best amateur baker. The season consisted of 10 episodes. Each episode saw bakers put through three challenges, with each episode having its own theme or discipline. The season aired from 11 October 2016 until 14 December 2016, and saw Olivia McMahon win. The season was hosted by Claire Hooper and Mel Buttle, and was judged by Maggie Beer and Matt Moran.
The Bakers
The following is the list of the bakers that competed this season:
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! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Baker
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Age
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Occupation
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Hometown
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Competition Status
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! Olivia McMahon
| 37 || Fine Dining Waitress || Brisbane, Queensland || style="background:Gold;"|
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! Monica Cavallaro
| 43 || Retail Manager || Sydney, New South Wales || style="background:LimeGreen;"|
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! Antonio Marcora
| 16 || School Student || Sydney, New South Wales || style="background:LimeGreen;"|
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! Liesel Morgan
| 20 || University Student || Perth, Western Australia || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! Fiona Nguyen
| 32 || Patent & Trademark Lawyer || Brisbane, Queensland || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! James Rudd
| 26 || IT Technical Support || Perth, Western Australia || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! Noel Button
| 59 || Retired Teacher || Launceston, Tasmania || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! Jeremy Allan
| 30 || Welding & Vessel Inspector || Adelaide, South Australia || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! Bojan Petrovic
| 37 || Tow Truck Business Owner || Canberra, Australian Capital Territory || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! Diana Gyllen
| 29 || Model || Sydney, New South Wales || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! Cheryl Roberts
| 59 || Horse Trainer || Berry, New South Wales || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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! Janette Betts
| 62 || Palliative Care Nurse || Melbourne, Victoria || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
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|}
Results Summary
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Episodes
Episode 1: Cakes
Episode 2: Biscuits
Episode 3: Pies & Tarts
Episode 4: Chocolate
Episode 5: Bread
Episode 6: Retro
Episode 7: Pastry
Episode 8: Sweet Dough
Episode 9: International
Episode 10: Finale
Ratings
References
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2016 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Rainer%20Lepsius | M. Rainer Lepsius (8 May 1928 – 2 October 2014) was a German sociologist. A particular interest was in the work of Max Weber: he was prominent among the co-compilers of the (eventually) 47 volume edition of the Complete Works of Weber.
Life
Mario Rainer Lepsius was born in Rio de Janeiro, at that time the capital of Brazil. His Portuguese first name reflected the country where the family lived when he was born, while his second name reflected the German provenance of the family. After moving to Germany he would stop using the name "Mario", substituting the initial "M", which is why most sources identify him as "M. Rainer Lepsius".
On his father's side Lepsius came from a prominent Berlin family. His mother, the daughter of a Munich judge, came from a middle class Protestant Franconian family, with a number of lawyers, doctors and pastors among her ancestors. His father, Wilhelm Lepsius (1890-1942) had a doctorate in law, and by the time of Rainer's birth was working in a commercial capacity for Schering AG, a large pharmaceutical company headquartered in Berlin. In 1934, when Lepsius was aged six, the family relocated to Madrid which is where he first attended school. Two years later, in 1936, they returned to Germany, settling in Munich where the child grew up, and where he was still living when he was fourteen, which was when his father died. Less than three years later, on his seventeenth birthday, he was in Munich on 8 May 1945 when the capitulation of the German army marked the formal end of the Second World War.
Between 1947 and 1952 he studied history, social economics (Volkswirtschaftslehre) and sociology at Munich and Cologne. He received his first degree from Munich in 1950. His doctorate, also from Munich, followed in 1955. In Munich he was able to obtain a grounding a sociology from . In Cologne he was one of the so-called "young Turks" drawn to the ideas of René König, and from this point his academic focus was almost exclusively on sociology. Gerhard Weisser triggered his interest in town planning. In Autumn 1951, during an extended stay in London, he was able to pursue his studies at the London School of Economics. It was also in London that he met Renate Meyer whom he would later marry.
After this Friedrich Lütge offered him a post a seminar assistant in Economic History back at Munich, which made Lepsius and Knut Borchardt colleagues. He was also commissioned to produce a study on the social position of the "Master" / "Foreman" ("Meister") in industrial management structures, which led to the creation of contacts with industrial sociologists such as , and .
In 1955/56 Lepsius won a Fulbright scholarship which led to a year spent at Columbia University in New York, studying with Robert K. Merton, whom he found a "lucid teacher" and Paul Lazarsfeld as his "student advisor". At the end of his year he was offered a position as a research assistant by Reinhard Bendix at Berkeley, but after a certain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Cheapest%20Weddings | Australia's Cheapest Weddings is an Australian reality television series which premiered on the Seven Network on 22 August 2016. The program is narrated by Melanie Vallejo and follows couples who plan their wedding on a very small budget.
After three episodes, following poor ratings, Channel Seven pulled the show from its schedule indefinitely but did not confirm its cancellation. Unaired episodes returned from 10 November 2016.
Ratings
References
Seven Network original programming
Wedding television shows
2010s Australian reality television series
2016 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready%20for%20Takeoff | Ready for Takeoff is an Australian observational and airline television series aired on the Nine Network on 30 October 2015. The series was renewed for a second season and premiered on 7 October 2016.
The series takes viewers behind the scenes of operations at Australian airline Qantas, who funded the production of the program.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Broadcast
Internationally, the series airs in Ireland on TV3, debuting on 6 July 2016.
See also
Airways, a similar 2009 series behind the scenes of Tiger Airways Australia.
References
2010s Australian documentary television series
2015 Australian television series debuts
2016 Australian television series endings
Australian factual television series
Documentary television series about aviation
Nine Network original programming
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Security%20Services%20Daemon | The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) is software originally developed for the Linux operating system (OS) that provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directory services and authentication mechanisms. The beginnings of SSSD lie in the open-source software project FreeIPA (Identity, Policy and Audit). The purpose of SSSD is to simplify system administration of authenticated and authorised user access involving multiple distinct hosts. It is intended to provide single sign-on capabilities to networks based on Unix-like OSs that are similar in effect to the capabilities provided by Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services to Microsoft Windows networks.
References
External links
Unix network-related software
Linux software projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20and%20Corpus%20Linguistics | Law and corpus linguistics (LCL) is a new academic sub-discipline that uses large databases of examples of language usage equipped with tools designed by linguists called corpora to better get at the meaning of words and phrases in legal texts (statutes, constitutions, contracts, etc.). Thus, LCL is the application of corpus linguistic tools, theories, and methodologies to issues of legal interpretation in much the same way law and economics is the application of economic tools, theories, and methodologies to various legal issues.
History
A 2005 law review article by Lawrence Solan noted in passing that corpus linguistics had potential for its application to interpreting legal texts. But the first systematic exploration and advocacy of applying the tools and methodologies of corpus linguistics to legal interpretive questions of law and corpus linguistics came in the fall of 2010, when the BYU Law Review published a note by Stephen Mouritsen, entitled The Dictionary is Not a Fortress: Definitional Fallacies and a Corpus-Based Approach to Plain Meaning. The note argued that dictionaries are the primary linguistic tool used by judges to determine the plain or ordinary meaning of words and phrases, and highlighted the deficiencies of such an approach. In its stead, the note proposed using corpus linguistics. And the note would be later cited by Adam Liptak in a New York Times article on statutory construction.
Law and corpus linguistics (LCL) gained greater legitimacy in July 2011 with the first judicial opinion in American history utilizing corpus linguistics to determine the meaning of a legal text: In re the Adoption of Baby E.Z. In a concurrence in part and in the judgment, Justice Thomas Lee wrote to put forth an alternative ground for the majority's holding—interpreting the phrase "custody determination" by using corpus linguistics. Justice Lee looked at 500 randomized sample sentences from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and found that the most common sense of "custody" was in the context of divorce rather than adoption. Further, he found that "custody" is ten times more likely to co-occur (or collocate) with "divorce" than with "adoption". From that evidence Justice Lee concluded that he "would find that the custody proceedings covered by the Act are limited to proceedings resulting in the modifiable custody orders of a divorce", rather than the broader range of custody proceedings.
Other jurisprudence and scholarship would follow. In a 2015 concurrence in State v. Rasabout, Justice Lee used a COCA search to determine that "discharge" when used with a firearm (or one of its synonyms) overwhelmingly referred to a single shot rather than emptying the entire magazine of the weapon. And in 2016, four of the five justices joined a footnote in a majority opinion by Justice Lee commending a party for using corpus linguistics in its briefing even though the Court found it unnecessary to resolve the related question. Finally, in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20analytics | Sports analytics are a collection of relevant, historical, statistics that can provide a competitive advantage to a team or individual. Through the collection and analysis of these data, sports analytics inform players, coaches and other staff in order to facilitate decision making both during and prior to sporting events. The term "sports analytics" was popularized in mainstream sports culture following the release of the 2011 film, Moneyball, in which Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) relies heavily on the use of baseball analytics, building upon and extending the established practice of Sabermetrics, to build a competitive team on a minimal budget.
There are two key aspects of sports analytics—on-field and off-field analytics. On-field analytics deals with improving the on-field performance of teams and players, including questions such as "which player on the Red Sox contributed most to the team's offense?" or "who is the best wing player in the NBA?", etc. Off-field analytics deals with the business side of sports. Off-field analytics focuses on helping a sport organization or body surface patterns and insights through data that would help increase ticket and merchandise sales, improve fan engagement, etc. Off-field analytics essentially uses data to help rightsholders take decisions that would lead to higher growth and increased profitability.
As technology has advanced over the last number of years data collection has become more in-depth and can be conducted with relative ease. Advancements in data collection have allowed for sports analytics to grow as well, leading to the development of advanced statistics and machine learning, as well as sport specific technologies that allow for things like game simulations to be conducted by teams prior to play, improve fan acquisition and marketing strategies, and even understand the impact of sponsorship on each team as well as its fans.
Another significant impact sports analytics have had on professional sports is in relation to sport gambling. In depth sports analytics have taken sports gambling to new levels, whether it be fantasy sports leagues or nightly wagers, bettors now have more information at their disposal to help aid decision making. A number of companies and webpages have been developed to help provide fans with up to the minute information for their betting needs.
Sport-specific analytic tools and measurements
Major League Baseball (MLB)
Early history
Baseball was one of the first sports to embrace sports analytics with Earnshaw Cook publishing Percentage Baseball in 1964. This was the first publication citing sports analytics to garner national media attention. In 1981, Bill James helped bring SABR (Society for American Baseball Research), one of the leading sports analytical organizations for baseball, into national prominence when Sports Illustrated featured James in the article He Does It By The Numbers by Daniel Okrent (1981).
In 1984, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P8000 | The P8000 is a microcomputer system developed in 1987 by the VEB Elektro-Apparate-Werke Berlin-Treptow „Friedrich Ebert“ (EAW) in the German Democratic Republic (DDR, East Germany). It consisted of an 8-bit and a 16-bit microprocessor and a Winchester disk controller. It was intended as a universal programming and development system for multi-user/multi-task applications. The initial list price of the P8000 was 172,125 East German marks (around 86,000–172,000 DM).
There was also a budget version with only an 8-bit microprocessor.
The 8-bit microcomputer
The 8-bit version of P8000 was completely contained on a single 4-layer printed circuit board. The processor, with a clock frequency of 4 MHz, was based on the U880 microprocessor (near clone of Zilog Z80) and peripheral circuits along with the U8272 floppy-disk controller. Direct memory access was accomplished by U858 DMA controller chip..
The system featured a main memory of 64 KB dynamic RAM, an 8 K EPROM, and a 2 KB static RAM for boot code, system test routines and the system monitor. This extra memory could be moved or turned off in 4-KB-stages in the 64 K address space.
The 8-bit machine had four serial ports, designated tty0 to tty3. These interfaces could operate either as V.24 or IFSS (Interface sternförmig seriell–20 mA current loop) signals. In addition the computer had a parallel port which allowed the connection of an EPROM burner. Another internal 32-bit parallel interface was used for the coupling the 8-bit to a 16-bit microcomputer card. Data exchange was via two built-in 5.25" floppy drives. Two additional 5.25" or 8" floppy drives could be connected externally.
The 16-bit microcomputer
The 16-bit version of P8000 was divided into two functional units: the 16-bit processor card and up to four plug-in memory cards with sizes of 256 KB or 1 MB. The 16-bit processor was contained on a 6-layer PC board. The processor operated at a clock frequency of 4 MHz and was based on the U8001 (Zilog Z8001 clone) 16-bit microprocessor . Three U8010 memory management units (MMUs) augmented with special control logic handled the dynamic memory segment allocation and protected against unauthorized access. In addition the computer had 16 KB EPROM memory and 2 KB static RAM For the system Monitor and self-test routines. The peripheral circuitry was built around the U880 family. Dedicated control logic ensured the coordination with the U8001.
The 16-bit machine had four serial ports, designated tty4 to tty7. The interfaces handled both V.24 and IFSS signals. The 8-bit processor was connected to the 16-bit processor via an internal 32-bit parallel interface. Connection to the external Winchester disk was accomplished by another parallel port.
Winchester disk controller
The Winchester-Disk controller (WDC) is an intelligent disk controller and was located in a separate unit, the Winchester disk enclosure. This unit contains the Winchester disk controller and up to two hard drives.
The WDC w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%20951 | Code page 951 is a code page number used for different purposes by IBM and Microsoft.
IBM uses the code page number 951 for their double-byte PC Data KS code, the double byte component of their code page 949, an encoding for the Korean language. See Code page 949 (IBM).
The code page number 951 was also used by Microsoft as part of a kludge for providing Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS-2001) support in Windows XP, in the file name of a replacement for code page 950 (Traditional Chinese) with Unicode mappings for some Extended User-defined Characters (EUDC) found in HKSCS. HKSCS characters without a Unicode mapping are assigned a Unicode Private Use Area (PUA) code point following previous practices. The IBM code page number for Big5 with HKSCS-2001 is 5471. See Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set § Microsoft Windows.
References
951
Encodings of Asian languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiSiCA | LiSiCA (Ligand Similarity using Clique Algorithm) is a ligand-based virtual screening software that searches for 2D and 3D similarities between a reference compound and a database of target compounds which should be represented in a Mol2 format. The similarities are expressed using the Tanimoto coefficients and the target compounds are ranked accordingly. LiSiCA is also available as LiSiCA PyMOL plugin both on Linux and Windows operating systems.
Description
As an input LiSiCA requires at least one reference compound and database of target compounds. For 3D screening this database has to be a pregenerated database of conformations of target and for 2D screening a topology, that is, a list of atoms and bonds, for each target compound. On each step the algorithm compares reference compound to one of the compounds from target compounds based on their 2D or 3D representation. Both compounds(molecules) are converted to molecular graphs. In 2D and 3D screening the molecular graph vertices represent atoms. In 2D screening edges of molecular graph represent covalent bonds while in 3D screening edges are drawn between every pair of vertices and have no chemical meaning. A product graph generated from molecular graphs is then searched using fast maximum clique algorithm to find the largest substructure common to both compounds. The similarity between compounds is calculated using Tanimoto coefficients and target compounds are ranked according to their Tanimoto coefficients.
Feature overview
LiSiCA can search 2D and 3D similarities between a reference compound and a database of target compounds. It takes as an input at least one reference compound and a database of target compounds. By default it returns only the compound most similar to the reference compound out of all compounds in database of target compounds.
Other optional parameters LiSiCA uses are:
Number of CPU threads to useDefault value: the default is to try to detect the number of CPUs and use all of them or, failing that, use 1
Product graph dimensionPossible input: 2, 3Default value: 2
Maximum allowed atom spatial distance difference for the 3D product graph measured in angstromsDefault value: 1.0
Maximum allowed shortest path difference for the 2D product graph measured in the number of covalent bonds between atomsDefault value: 1
Consider hydrogensDefault value: False
Number of highest ranked molecules to write to outputDefault value: 0
Maximum allowed number of highest scoring conformations to be outputtedDefault value: 1
In addition LiSiCA PyMOL plugin also offers to load saved results.
History
LiSiCA Software (March 2015)
LiSiCA PyMOL plugin (March 2016)
Interesting fact
The Slovene word lisica means 'fox', which is why the logo of LiSiCA software is a fox holding two molecules.
References
External links
LiSiCA software
LiSiCA plugin
Molecular modelling
Chemistry software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20School%20of%20Telecommunication%20Arts%20and%20Technology | High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology is a public high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.It was established in the 1980s with a focus on preparing students for careers working with computers, including by teaching about word processing and databases. It has a software engineering program that is based around the CS4ALL curriculum.
It is located at 350 67th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220. It has 1300 students.
The school is a Gothic style building. It was formerly Bay Ridge High School. As Bay Ridge High school, it was all girls, but it is now coed.
In 2016, the building established a rooftop greenhouse for teaching about botany and food production.
Notable alumni
Josh Palacios, baseball player
Taj Gibson, basketball player
References
External links
Gothic Revival architecture in New York City
Telecommunication education
Public high schools in Brooklyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter%205%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Chapter 5" is the fifth episode of the sixth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 12, 2016, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Akela Cooper and directed by Nelson Cragg.
Plot
In an interview, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin details the history of suffering at the Roanoke farmhouse through the backstory of one of the owners of the Roanoke House, Edward Philippe Mott, who is the original builder of their home and his subsequent ownership of the property. Mott used the property as a storage house for his art collection and covert homosexual affairs with one of his slaves, Guinness. During the blood moon, he was sacrificed by Thomasin and her men. Since then, the house is sold to a succession of owners, all of whom disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
In the present, Thomasin's mob surrounds the house, ready to kill the Millers. As the mob attacks the house, The Millers are rescued by Mott, who leads them to safety before abandoning them in the woods, where they are captured by the Polk family. At the Polk home, Mama Polk explains that in exchange for providing a sacrifice to the mob on every blood moon, the Polk family earns protection from suffering the same fate. The Polks are still upset about the loss of their two grandsons and plan to hand the Millers back to Thomasin in retribution. Matt takes the opportunity to escape from the Polks' truck, killing one of the family members in the process. Mama Polk smashes Shelby's ankle in retaliation with a sledgehammer.
Shelby implicates Lee for Mason's death, but the police release her due to lack of evidence. After finding out that Flora is alive, Lee begs a police officer to take her back to the house so that she can be reunited with Flora again. The police officer agrees, and they head back together. Meanwhile, the surviving Polks deliver the Millers to the mob at the house. Thomasin and her mob drag Flora away to be sacrificed, but just as the sacrifice is to begin, Ambrose throws himself and his mother into the fire. Edward Philipe Mott appears and frees Shelby and Matt. The Piggy Man tries to attack Flora but is run down by Lee's car. Shelby, Matt, and Flora all jump into Lee's car and flee to safety.
Shelby and Matt decide to head back to Los Angeles to return to a normal life. Shelby mentions that nightmares based on her memories of the events continue to haunt her.
Reception
"Chapter 5" was watched by 2.82 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.5 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode holds an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews with an average score of 5.8/10. The critical consensus reads, ""Chapter 5" provides a satisfyingly scary conclusion to Roanoke first story arc – and sets up a quick change of course."
References
External links
2016 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Roanoke episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter%202%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Chapter 2" is the second episode of the sixth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 21, 2016, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Tim Minear and directed by Michael Goi.
Plot
Shelby assumes the ritual she witnessed was staged, she flees from the mob and is almost hit by Lee's car. Shelby passes out in the middle of the road and awakes the next day in the hospital, she resolves to stay in the house.
Lee's ex-husband Mason brings their daughter Flora to visit as part of the couple's arranged custody schedule. As Flora explores the house, she begins talking to an unseen girl who she names Priscilla. Matt and Shelby experience more disturbing incidents, now involving a pair of ghostly nurses. After discovering a burning totem in the woods near the house, Matt and Shelby finally secured the help of the local police to take little interest.
Mason arrives to pick up Flora and finds her playing a game of hide and seek with Priscilla. Flora tells him that she offered her doll to Priscilla in exchange for not murdering her family, but since Mason interrupted the trade, Flora will merely be killed last. Mason takes Flora away from the house and promises Lee that she will never see her again, causing Lee to end her sobriety.
That night, Matt and Shelby discover a storm cellar under the backyard. There, they watched a videotape recorded by one of the house's previous owners, Dr. Elias Cunningham. Dr. Cunningham describes the same malevolent forces pursuing him that the couple has been experiencing and that he was studying the story of the nurses, Miranda and Bridget Jane. The sisters killed their retirement home patients based on the first letters of the victims' names, spelling the word "Murder".
The bank refuses to return the money they bought the house with, despite not warning them about the house's gruesome past. As the bank agent leaves, Lee arrives with Flora. While Shelby is distracted on the phone, Flora is beckoned outside by a mysterious figure. When the adults are not able to find Flora, they frantically search for her in the house and then in the woods, where they find Flora's hoodie hanging at the top of a massive pine tree.
Reception
"Chapter 2" was watched by 3.27 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 1.8 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The episode received a 64% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews with an average score of 6.1/10. The critical consensus reads, "The tried and true premise that emerges in "Chapter 2" is undermined by superficial exposition that damages its credibility – even in the context of American Horror Story."
References
External links
2016 American television episodes
American Horror Story: Roanoke episodes
Television episodes directed by Michael Goi
Television episodes written by Tim Minear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanchez%20of%20Bel%20Air | Sanchez of Bel Air is an American sitcom that aired on USA Network from October 3 until December 26, 1986.
Synopsis
In the early stages of the show, people began to relate it to The Beverly Hillbillies. This idea was rejected by the senior vice-president of programming, Frank Kelly. While it did have a similar theme of a 'change in fortune', they did not intend for it to be as drastic of a change as the older show had been. The Sanchez family's move would bring them into a new world of social politics. Their neighborhood was to include both "limousine liberals" and "ultra-conservatives".
The show's plot featured problems and hilarities that typical nuclear families would face. The show had two teenagers dealing with their bodily and social transformations that come with being that age. Another issue revolves around Rita, not enjoying having more time on her hands since she no longer has to work. Cultural issues come into play with the character Teresa, who has "no use for 'gringo food'".
Production
In 1986, the USA Network partnered with Paramount Pictures for the first time to create a new sitcom, Sanchez of Bel Air. The series premiered on October 3 and ran for single season of thirteen half-hour episodes, airing on Friday nights. The premise of the show follows the transition of a Hispanic- American family as they move from East Los Angeles, California to the luxurious community of Bel Air. Sanchez of Bel Air was produced by David Hackel and April Kelly. While the show did not excel due to some content criticisms, it had one long lasting effect. Sanchez of Bel Air was the foundation for the "Sanchez Formula" used to formulate residual amounts for television reruns.
Producers
Dave Hackel began his career in the media industry by writing for the television show Fish in 1978. He went on to create a well-established career in producing. His work included producing the hit show, Wings and Dear John. He has been a creative consultant on shows like Frasier and LateLine. Hackel also created the series The Pursuit of Happiness. April Kelly has had a career in media since being a writer on The Jim Stafford Show in 1975. Her most notable credit has been as the co-creator of the hit sitcom Boy Meets World, in the 1990s, and its reboot series, Girl Meets World, which premiered in 2014.
Cast
The Sanchez of Bel Air cast was composed almost entirely of Latinos and Latinas. Ricardo Sanchez, the father of the family and owner of a clothing company, "Buy Sanchez" is played by Reni Santoni. His wife, Rita Sanchez, is played by Marcia Del Mar. Their children, Gina and Miguel Sanchez, are played by Alitzah Weiner and Richard Coco. Teresa Sanchez, the grandmother of the family is portrayed by Alma Beltran. Next door to the Sanchez's is their neighbor, former musician, Frankie Rondell played by Bobby Sherman.
Episodes
Award nominations
Although the sitcom was short lived, and cut after its first season, it did have two award nominations. At the 9th Youth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20A%2010.1 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 is a 10.1-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the mid-range "A" series, which also includes 7, and in the past, 8 and 9.7-inch models. It was released in May 2016; the S-Pen (stylus) version was released in September 2016.A refreshed version of the tablet would later be released in 2019, with some aspects, such as the battery, being reduced, while other components were upgraded.
Features
The Galaxy Tab A 10.1 comes with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, customized with TouchWiz software and Samsung apps such as S Planner, WatchON, Smart Stay, Multi-Window, Group Play, and the S-Pen suite for the S-Pen version.
As of 2022, the tablet runs a version of Android 8.1.
The Galaxy Tab A 10.1 is available in WiFi-only and 4G/LTE & Wi-Fi variants. It has a 10.1-inch PLS LCD screen with a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels. It also has a 2 MP front camera without flash and a rear-facing 8.0 MP F1.9 AF camera with flash. It has various camera modes like Sports, Beauty, HDR, Auto, Night, Continuous Shot, Pro mode and Panorama.
The tablet is extremely thin but is also durable. It has only one physical button at the front, which is the home button, and has three more buttons at the right hand side of the tablet, one power button, one volume up button and one volume down button. There are also two soft buttons present at the front of the screen. One recents and one back button.
The NotebookCheck site praised the tablet's connectivity and GPS, battery life, and responsiveness in general applications, but criticized the camera's performance, slow responsiveness of the screen during gaming, and subpar speaker performance -especially noting the absence of bass and sound originating from only one side of the device in landscape mode- and slow drive sequential write speeds.
Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2019)
A new version of the Galaxy Tab A 10.1 was announced in February 2019, with Android 9 Pie (upgradable to Android 11), the Exynos 7904 chipset and an IPS display with unchanged resolution. The rear flash is removed, S-Pen support is dropped and the battery is smaller, while the front camera is upgraded to 5 MP and the speakers are now stereo.
See also
Comparison of tablet computers
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2016
Tablet computers |
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