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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity%20Ministries | Charity Ministries, also called Charity Christian Fellowship, is a Conservative Anabaptist network of churches that was formed in 1982 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
As with other conservative Anabaptist Christian churches, the Charity Christian Fellowship seeks to emulate early Christianity and practices plain dress, believer's baptism, "feet washing, the devotional head covering, the holy kiss, non-swearing of oaths and practicing Biblical Nonresistance (As described in Matthew 5:45)."
Many members of the Charity Christian Fellowship have roots in other Anabaptist denominations that practice plain dress, though their emphasis on evangelism has led to individuals from non-Anabaptist Christian backgrounds becoming a part of the Charity Christian Fellowship as well.
History
In 1982, individuals with roots in different Plain Anabaptist groups met in New Holland in order to form a church that would recapture the zeal of early Christianity and the tenets of the Anabaptist movement of the 16th century. Mose Stoltzfus, an ex-Amish (1946–2020), and Denny Kenaston, an ex-Baptist (1949–2012), were the main leaders of the new church.
In the early years it was more of a spiritual movement than a church.
In the late 1980s, a tape ministry was started as well as an organization for foreign missions. A publication called The Heartbeat of the Remnant, short The Remnant, was started in 1994. In 2011 its publication was transferred to its affiliated Ephrata Ministries and in summer 2013 its publication was stopped. In 2016 The Berean Voice, a ministry of Faith Christian Fellowship, resumed the publication.
In the latter part of the 2010s, a number of conservative Charity congregations grouped together as the Agape Christian Fellowship.
Belief and practice
The Charity churches profess to be Conservative Anabaptist in doctrine. The churches of the network resemble Conservative Mennonites in many ways. Members wear plain dress, with women observing plain dress through the wearing of the cape dress with a head covering in the form of a hanging veil. Believer's baptism by immersion, Foot washing and the Holy Kiss are practiced. Non-swearing of oaths and opposition to military service is also mandatory. They also place a strong emphasis on evangelism towards other Anabaptist and non-Anabaptist groups.
Members and congregations
In 1993 there were nine churches in eight states of the US and around 500 baptized members.
Around the year 2000 there were 24 congregations in the network in fifteen states of the US, mainly in Pennsylvania and Ohio. There were 1,467 members and an estimated total population including children and young adults not yet baptized of 2,787 people. In 2012 there were 41 congregations with 2,232 members associated with Charity Ministries.
References
External links
Official website
Conservative Anabaptists
Evangelical denominations in North America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevMountain | DevMountain is a private coding bootcamp school that offers in-person and online courses ranging from 6 to 26 weeks in a variety of subjects including web development, mobile programming, user experience design, software quality assurance, and salesforce development. The school was founded in Provo, Utah by Cahlan Sharp, Tyler Richards, and Colt Henrie in 2013.
In April 2016, the software engineering school, DevMountain was acquired by Capella Education Company for $20 million.
References
External links
2013 establishments in Utah
Computer science education
Companies based in Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EKWB | EKWB (Edvard König Water Blocks), better known as EK Water Blocks, is a Slovenian company founded in 2003 that manufactures high-end computer water cooling, extreme cooling, and some air cooling components for CPUs, GPU, RAM and SSDs. Their target audience consists of custom PC building enthusiasts and professionals, and the company offers a complete range of water cooling products from radiators to tubing to water blocks. EKWB sells its products through a number of authorized distributors worldwide, but also maintains its own web store focused on direct to consumer sales. Its primary brand strategy makes use of influencer marketing to advertise products through sponsorships or review samples.
History
EKWB was founded in 2003 by Edvard König, who wanted a better thermal and acoustic performance for his personal computer. The company released new versions of its products, resulting in a 40% cooling performance increase from 2006 to 2011. As of 2011 EKWB was one of the three largest personal computer water cooling companies. EKWB works with the overclocking community through forums to better understand the needs of its customers.
Products
EKWB specialises in cooling supplies. Its product line includes: Quantum CPU water blocks, GPU water blocks, radiators, computer fans, AIO (All-in-one) liquid cooling sets and several accessories.
CPU Water Blocks
Currently, EKWB sells a number of CPUs water cooling blocks, primarily EK-Annihilator designed for socket LGA 3647 and the Quantum line of CPU Blocks for a wide range of CPU sockets.
The EK-Supremacy EVO, EK-Supremacy MX and EK-Velocity have mounting kits available for Intel's Socket T, B, H, H2, H3, H4, R, R3 and R4. (N.B. Socket R2 is also compatible but was only used for certain server processors) and AMD's Socket 754, 939, 940, AM2(+), AM3(+), AM4, FM1 and FM2(+). The EK-Annihilator is required for Intels server LGA 3647 and the EK-Supremacy sTR is required for AMD's EPYC and Threadripper CPU's mounting holes, respectfully.
EKWB also sells a range of Monoblocks, CPU blocks that are much larger and also cool the motherboard's VRM to ensure that it does not overheat from high load. These monoblocks are based on the EK-Supremacy EVO.
EKWB often works in collaboration with computer hardware brands such as Asus, MSI and Gigabyte to bring custom Monoblocks to their high-end gaming motherboards and GPUs. Those custom-built blocks will usually have cooling for the CPU, VRMs, M.2 slot and chipset/southbridge. Those blocks are sold as part of their respective motherboards or GPUs, rather than as a separate aftermarket part by EKWB.
Blocks are offered in a number of finishes, with interchange top parts. Blocks are made from copper (or in the Fluid Gaming case aluminium) and either left as bare copper, nickel plated or gold-plated. The block's top, as they call it, are made from either nickel plated brass, Acetal (usually black, though white is an option) or plexi tops (both clear and colour tinted).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie%20Hooker | Marjorie Hooker (10 May 1908 – 4 May 1976) was an American geologist who worked to collect data on the make-up of igneous and metamorphic rocks as well as acted as a mineral specialist for the United States Department of State from 1943 to 1947. Her work on deciphering chemical data for granite rocks led her to collect and correspond information with geologists from all around the world. The multiple associations with which she worked include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Geological Society of London, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and the Mineralogical Association of Canada. She also worked as a delegate of the International Geological Congresses for their 19th, 20th, 23rd, and 24th meetings. Her contributions to Geology have been recognized with an award created in her name at Syracuse University to recognize and aid exceptional student research.
Early life and education
Hooker was born in Flushing, New York.
She attended Hunter College in New York City. There, she worked towards a B.A. in the field of Geology which she received in 1929. Hooker went on to Syracuse University to continue her studies and received a M.A. in Geology in 1933. From 1933 to 1937 she continued her graduate studies at Columbia University and George Washington University.
Research career
Hooker spent 30 years writing bibliographies and studying rocks and minerals. Though most of her studies on rocks and minerals were through past data of notable geologists, Hooker was also responsible for compiling geological data from literature from different regions in the world. One of Hooker's most recognized published bibliography was Data of Rock Analyses volumes 1–5. In these volumes she compiles a list of literature from the years 1914–1953 pertaining to the chemical analyses of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Hooker categorizes the literature based on which country they were published in, including the countries of Africa, New Zealand, Iceland, and Australia. Hooker also organized the literature from 1866 to 1968 that prioritized the chemical analysis of igneous and metamorphic rock in the Puerto Rican region. Due to this work 90% of the published igneous and metamorphic rocks found on the Greater and Lesser Antilles are on a magnetic tape in a form retrievable by rock type, location, and other parameters. Hooker could have published more papers but her standards were sometimes too high.
Hooker was also interested in writing about lesser-known histories of the geological field, such as the term Nuée ardente which she put much research into. French geologist Alfred Lacroix coined this term and Hooker published writings on Lacroix's accounts and reports in the early 1900s when studying the Mount Pelée eruptions. This published works was called The Origin of the Volcanological Concept Nuée Ardente.
Contributions and aw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20665 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 665 is a Sustrans route from Wetherby to South West York. Two sections of the route are open. As of summer 2020 the route is not fully signed. The central section between Tadcaster and Newton Kyme is still a proposal.
Route
Wetherby to Newton Kyme
Starting on Linton Road Wetherby the route is a railway path before it goes through a housing estate and uses an underpass to cross the A1(M). There is a rail path from there to Thorpe Arch Estate. When opened in 2007, at a cost of £500,00, this section was numbered as Route 66, it is now fully signed as Route 665.
The old railway viaduct over the River Wharfe was reopened as a cycle path in 2018, this formed a new section of the route from the trading estate to the A659 at Newton Kyme. A 500 metre cycle path through the trading estate was installed in spring 2020 to fill the gap in the route which had been left when the Wharfe crossing opened.
Newton Kyme to Tadcaster
As of summer 2020 this route is still a proposal. The planned route follows the A659 to Tadcaster.
Tadcaster to York
The route uses a longstanding verge-side cycle-path next to the A64. NCN 665 ends where it meets Route 65 at Askham Bar Park and Ride site. This section of the route is mainly unsigned.
This section is paralleled to the south by NCN 66, which follows quiet country lanes.
Related Routes
Route 65 meets the following routes:
at Askham Bar, York
at Tadcaster
at Wetherby
References
External links
Route 665 on the Sustrans website.
Cycleways in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Dude | Space Dude is a video game developed by Evryware and published by FormGen for MS-DOS computers in 1996.
Plot
The player controls a cosmic being who must defend the Golden City from the attacks of King Dorf and his army of Hoppers. To save the city, Space Dude must destroy the advancing Hoppers and battle King Dorf in his mothership. There are three ways to destroy hoppers: attacking directly, building and manning a defense post, and capturing one hopper to attack another. Before each attack, Space Dude must evade missiles or alien creatures to get to the attack point. During each attack, Space Dude is required to blast a Hopper multiple times to destroy it.
In direct attacks against Hoppers, Space Dude surfs toward the enemy, lobbing bombs at it and avoiding contact. Once the hero passes the Hopper, it will fire a barrage of shots at him until he turns around. These attacks and counterattacks last until either the Hopper or Space Dude is defeated. When Space Dude builds a defense post, he must haul the building materials to the site while dodging missiles from the Dorf mothership. If the dude can make it to the defense site without being hit by missiles, then he builds the defense post at 100 percent strength. If missiles hit Space Dude in transit, he loses materials and the defense post loses strength.
After building the defense post, Space Dude must man the gun and attack the nearest Hopper. Destroying a Hopper typically requires between 20 and 30 shots. When Space Dude attempts to capture a Hopper, he must break into the machine and destroy the Dorfs inside. Once he dispatches them, the dude can control the Hopper and use it to attack other Hoppers nearby.
Finally, Space Dude can choose to attack King Dorf in the mothership to end the siege. Once inside the mothership, Space Dude must destroy guards to get the king's inner chamber. Once inside the king's lair, Space Dude must hit him dozens of times to defeat him. If Space Dude fails, he will need to attack the mothership again, but King Dorf does not regain strength, so the number of shots necessary to destroy him will remain at the number where Space Dude left off.
Whenever Space Dude loses a battle, he must return to the Golden City to recover. During this recovery time, Hoppers can advance on the city. Once a Hopper reaches the city, Space Dude must destroy it before it launches missiles and sets the city ablaze. When that happens, Space Dude is sent flying back into space and the game restarts.
Gameplay
In Space Dude, the player has to complete mini-games, in which the player character has to dodge things or shoot. The player can choose their missions with a choice of either repairing defense guns, capturing Hoppers and going to attack.
Reception
A reviewer for Next Generation criticized the game's lack of a save feature and scored it one out of five stars. Adrenaline Vault said it was a good game for little children.
References
External links
1996 video games
Action game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20telenovelas%20broadcast%20by%20Univision%20tlnovelas | This is a list of telenovelas currently broadcast, scheduled to be broadcast or formerly broadcast on Univision tlnovelas, a Spanish-language American cable television network.
Telenovelas currently broadcast
Former programming
Telenovelas produced from 2010 to 2019
Telenovelas produced from 2000 to 2009
Telenovelas produced from 1990 to 1999
Telenovelas produced from 1980 to 1989
References
Univision telenovelas
Univision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Pioneer%20Woman%20episodes | The American cooking-themed television series The Pioneer Woman has aired on Food Network since its inception in 2011. As of April 2021, over 230 episodes have aired through the shows twenty-seven seasons.
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2012–2013)
Specials
Season 4 (2013)
Season 5 (2013)
Season 6 (2013–2014)
Season 7 (2014)
Season 8 (2014)
Season 9 (2014–2015)
Season 10 (2015)
Season 11 (2015)
Season 12 (2015–2016)
Season 13 (2016)
Season 14 (2016)
Season 15 (2016–)
Notes
References
External links
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes
Lists of food television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki.ai | Niki was an artificial intelligence company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was founded in May 2015 by IIT Kharagpur graduates Sachin Jaiswal, Keshav Prawasi, Shishir Modi, and Nitin Babel.
The Niki android app was launched for a limited beta in June 2015, then released for public during YourStory's TechSparks 2015, and is a Tech30 company. The company raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Unilazer Ventures, a Mumbai-based VC firm founded by Ronnie Screwvala, in October 2015. This was followed by another seed funding round by Ratan Tata in May 2016. The company then raised US$2 million in Series A round of funding from SAP.iO, existing investors and some US and German-based investors, among others. Niki.ai shut down in October 2021 as per media reports. Website not working.
Product
The product is an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot which works as an intelligent personal assistant, named Niki. Leveraging natural language processing and machine learning, Niki presents a chat-based natural language user interface to the users where they can interact with Niki in their natural language. Niki understands how users chat in India, deciphers the words, in the context of product/services that they would like to purchase, and comes up with apt recommendations.
Initially, it was only available on the Android platform as a mobile app. The company has expanded its operations to the Facebook Messenger and Apple iOS platforms. The company aims to soon be present on more messaging platforms like Slack and WhatsApp.
The company currently provides 20+ services to over 2 million consumers, covering a wide spectrum ranging from utility services like mobile recharge, bill payments, travel services like cabs, buses, hotels and entertainment services like movies and events. Services such as flights and healthcare are also planned.
Partnerships
In September 2017, Infosys Finacle joined with Niki.ai to provide chat-based service to banking customers.
In August 2017, Niki partnered with LazyPay to enable a 'buy now, pay later' feature for its users.
See also
Artificial Intelligence
AI Companies of India
References
External links
Blog
SAP.IO
Applications of artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
Applied machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toodyay%20pioneer%20heritage%20trail | Toodyay pioneer heritage trail was a trail created by the Toodyay Bicentennial Community Committee in 1988 for the Australian Bicentenary as part of the W.A. Heritage Trails Network.
The brochure created for the trail has the subtitle Early Settlement of Toodyay in the Avon Valley, Western Australia, and it covers 20 km that includes the West Toodyay townsite.
The identified sites were:
1. Morangup Hill
2. Morangup Spring
3. Jimperding Hill Descent
4. Jimperding Pool and Nolan's Rock
not numbered but identified "Deepdale homestead"
West Toodyay historic sites:
5. West Toodyay School
6. Samuel Ferguson's cottage
7. Royal Oak Inn
8. Highland Laddie
9. Queen's Head Hotel
10. Military Barracks
11. Colonial School
12. Lock Up
13. Catholic Chapel
14. Newcastle Recreation Ground and Cottage
The 1988 trail ended at the Duidgee Park Picnic Area from that point, there were two other trails - the River Gum Trail, and the Newcastle Walking Trail that continued into the Toodyay township.
Notes
Heritage places in Toodyay, Western Australia
Heritage trails in Western Australia
West Toodyay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%3A%20Battle%20Crashers | Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers is a side-scrolling beat 'em up video game based on multiple Cartoon Network series developed by French studio Magic Pockets and published by GameMill Entertainment in the North American release and Maximum Games in the European release. It was released for Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 8 November 2016. A Nintendo DS version was also going to be released but was cancelled, as GameMill Entertainment's page for the game shows a cover for a Nintendo DS version. The game features characters from various Cartoon Network shows, including Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, Clarence, Regular Show, Steven Universe, and Uncle Grandpa.
The game received extremely negative reviews from several video game journalists, who panned it as a repetitive and boring beat 'em up with bland representations of otherwise unique characters. A port for the Nintendo Switch was released on 31 October 2017.
Plot
Uncle Grandpa is driving his RV when he accidentally gears it to smash through the universes of other Cartoon Network shows, unknowingly picking up Gumball, Clarence, Steven Universe, Mordecai and Rigby from Regular Show, and Finn and Jake from Adventure Time. They then have to set out to defeat an army of "Mirror Clones", evil shard clones presumably formed after breaking through the dimensions.
Gameplay
The player takes control of six characters from various Cartoon Network shows: Uncle Grandpa, Gumball, Clarence, Steven Universe, Mordecai and Rigby, and Finn and Jake. Each character has a unique set of attacks and abilities. They progress through six worlds based on their respective series, each of which has two normal levels and a boss fight. Each normal level also has a secret bonus room that requires one of the characters' abilities to access. Sometimes, the player is required to replay a previous level in one of three special modes to collect a hidden item needed to advance.
The levels consist of going through an area and defeating enemies, from which the characters can collect gems and gain new abilities. Throughout the levels are hazards emanating from piles of shards that can be cleared by a certain character's abilities. The characters, who have their respective health bars, can pick up health-restoring items and special power-ups like walkie-talkies. The game can be played in local co-op with up to four players.
Development
The game was announced on 17 August 2016. A trailer for the game was released the same day.
Reception
Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers received negative reviews from several video game critics for mainly being a monotonous and boring beat-'em-up title with a lack of representation of the unique personalities and traits of each playable character. The review aggregator website Metacritic gave the game a simplified rating of 21 out of 100, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews"; it is the lowest-rated Nintendo 3DS game on the website. A reviewer for the Daily Mirror |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Outbreak%20Alert%20and%20Response%20Network | The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) is a network composed of numerous technical and public health institutions, laboratories, NGOs, and other organizations that work to observe and respond to threatening epidemics. GOARN works closely with and under the World Health Organization (WHO), which is one of its most notable partners. Its goals are to: examine and study diseases, evaluate the risks that certain diseases pose, and improve international capability to deal with diseases.
Creation
The World Health Organization realized at the start of the 21st century that it did not have the resources required to adequately respond to and prevent epidemics around the world. Thus, a "Framework for Global Outbreak and Response" was created by the Department of Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response, and Regional Offices. This framework was put then forth in a meeting in Geneva from April 26–28, 2000. In this meeting, which was attended by 121 representatives from 67 institutions, the decision was made to form GOARN to contribute resources, coordination, surveillance, and technical assistance towards combating diseases.
It was decided that GOARN would be directed by a steering committee made of 20 representatives of GOARN partners and an operational support team (OST) based in WHO. The steering committee oversees and plans the activities of GOARN, and the OST is composed of a minimum of 5–6 WHO staff. Task forces and groups were established to deal with specific issues. GOARN resources are primarily coordinated by the World Health Organization.
Goals
The WHO's guiding principles are to standardize "epidemiological, laboratory, clinical management, research, communication, logistics, support, security, evacuation, and communication systems" and coordinative international resources to support local efforts by GOARN partners to combat outbreaks. It also focuses on improving long term ability to provide technical assistance to affected areas.
Partners
GOARN has grown to now have over 600 partners in the form of public health institutions, networks, laboratories, and United Nations and non-governmental organizations. Technical institutions, networks, and organizations that have the ability to improve GOARN's capabilities are eligible for partnership. Through its partners, GOARN is staffed by a variety of individuals who specialize in public health, such as "doctors, nurses, infection control specialists, logisticians, laboratory specialists; communication, anthropology and social mobilization experts, emergency management and public health professionals among others."
As its biggest partner, WHO plays a large role in GOARN. Alongside coordinating its resources to combat outbreaks, WHO provides much of the staffing and assistance for GOARN, though as will be covered later, does not fund GOARN directly. Since the network is primarily led by the WHO, there is some uncertainty as to whether WHO should be considered a partner in GOAR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Isaac%20Murray | David Isaac Murray (born 27 August 1983) is an entrepreneur, computer scientist, and product designer best known for his appearance as one of the main cast members on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley. Originally a product manager at Google from 2006–2008, he received the Google Founders Award and EMG Award for his work on Gmail. After Google, David held several senior positions at start up companies in Silicon Valley, California. He started his company, GoalSponsors, in 2012 and eventually sold it to Doctor.com in 2014. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Doctor.com until 2019. David is currently Cofounder and President of Confirm, an HR technology company focused on performance reviews and organizational network analysis.
Early life
Murray grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attended the Albuquerque Academy from grades 6-12. He attended Carnegie Mellon University as a triple major in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Voice Performance, where he graduated in 2006, Phi Beta Kappa, as recipient of the CMU Alumni Award for Research Excellence in Computer Science.
Business history
Murray was Associate Product Manager for Gmail at Google from 2006–2008. He later served as Senior VP, Product Management at Inform Technologies in 2008, User Experience Lead at Cryptic Studios 2008–2010, and Director of Product for Raptr 2010-2012 before founding GoalSponsors which later became known as ReferBright, a marketing automation platform for healthcare practitioners, and was sold to Doctor.com in 2014. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Doctor.com (acquired by Press Ganey in 2020). Murray is currently Cofounder and President of Confirm, an HR technology company focused on performance reviews and organizational network analysis.
Television, film, and media
In 2012, Murray appeared as one of the main cast on Bravo's TV Show Start-Ups: Silicon Valley working on an accountability buddies mobile app called GoalSponsors. He has authored articles in publications including FastCompany and has been a contributing author to Forbes through his membership with the Forbes Technology Council. His writing focuses on the intersection of business, technology, and the human experience.
Awards
2013 Named "One to Watch" by BRINK Magazine
2008 Google Founders Award, EMG Award
2006 Carnegie Mellon SCS Alumni Award for Research Excellence in Computer Science
2006 Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar, Mortar Board Senior Honor Society
2005 Phi Beta Kappa
2001 Cum Laude National Honor Society
Board and Council Memberships
Member, Forbes Technology Council (2018–present)
Board member, Carnegie Mellon University Alumni Association Board (2017–present)
Board member, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Alumni Advisory Board (2005–present)
President, Rainbow Recreation (2015–present)
Board member, South Bay Volleyball Club (2013–present)
References
External links
David I. Murray
Doctor.com Management
David Murray - Forbes Technology Council
1983 bi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional%20empirical%20mode%20decomposition | In signal processing, multidimensional empirical mode decomposition (multidimensional EMD) is an extension of the one-dimensional (1-D) EMD algorithm to a signal encompassing multiple dimensions. The Hilbert–Huang empirical mode decomposition (EMD) process decomposes a signal into intrinsic mode functions combined with the Hilbert spectral analysis, known as the Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT). The multidimensional EMD extends the 1-D EMD algorithm into multiple-dimensional signals. This decomposition can be applied to image processing, audio signal processing, and various other multidimensional signals.
Motivation
Multidimensional empirical mode decomposition is a popular method because of its applications in many fields, such as texture analysis, financial applications, image processing, ocean engineering, seismic research, etc. Several methods of Empirical Mode Decomposition have been used to analyze characterization of multidimensional signals.
Introduction to empirical mode decomposition (EMD)
The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method can extract global structure and deal with fractal-like signals.
The EMD method was developed so that data can be examined in an adaptive time–frequency–amplitude space for nonlinear and non-stationary signals.
The EMD method decomposes the input signal into several intrinsic mode functions (IMF) and a residue. The given equation will be as follows:
where is the multi-component signal. is the intrinsic mode function, and represents the residue corresponding to intrinsic modes.
Ensemble empirical mode decomposition
The ensemble mean is an approach to improving the accuracy of measurements. Data is collected by separate observations, each of which contains different noise over an ensemble of universes. To generalize this ensemble idea, noise is introduced to the single data set, , as if separate observations were indeed being made as an analogue to a physical experiment that could be repeated many times. The added white noise is treated as the possible random noise that would be encountered in the measurement process. Under such conditions, the artificial ‘observation’ will be .
In the case of only one observation, one of the multiple-observation ensembles is mimicked by adding different copies of white noise, , to that single observation as given in the equation. Although adding noise may result in a smaller signal-to-noise ratio, the added white noise will provide a uniform reference scale distribution to facilitate EMD; therefore, the low signal-noise ratio will not affect the decomposition method but actually enhances it by avoiding mode mixing. Based on this argument, an additional step is taken by arguing that adding white noise may help extract the true signals in the data, a method that is termed Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD).
The EEMD consists of the following steps:
Adding a white noise series to the original data.
Decomposing the data with added white noise into osc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon%20Centola | Damon Centola is a sociologist and the Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, Centola was an assistant professor at MIT Sloan School of Management (2008–2013) and a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow at Harvard University.
Career
Centola works on complex contagions, collective intelligence, and experimental sociology. Complex contagions was the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation in sociology, supervised by Michael Macy at Cornell University. After completing his doctorate degree at Cornell, Damon spent two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Policy at Harvard University. He then joined the faculty of the Sloan School of Management at MIT in 2008. In 2013, he moved to the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communications and founded the Network Dynamics Group as a center for theoretical research with testable policy applications.
Complex contagions
Centola and Macy found that information and disease spread as "simple contagions", requiring only one contact for transmission, while behaviors typically spread as "complex contagions", requiring multiple sources of reinforcement to induce adoption. Centola's work builds on Granovetter's work on the strength of weak ties and threshold models of collective behavior, as well as Duncan Watts and Steve Strogatz's work on small world networks. Centola and Macy show that the weak ties and small worlds networks are both very good for spreading simple contagions. However, for complex contagions, weak ties and small worlds can slow diffusion. Centola used a network-based experimental method to test the theory of complex contagions and showed that predictions were confirmed.
Centola's work on complex contagions also explores the importance of peer homophily and structural diversity in the process of spreading behaviors.
Experimental sociology
Centola pioneered the use of large scale online networks as an experimental tool for identifying the dynamics of social change. To test the theory of complex contagions, Centola developed the method of "Internet Network Experiments", in which he constructed social networks within proprietary online communities to study how an innovation would propagate.
Centola's first experimental sociology study conducted at Harvard University in 2010, called "The Healthy Lifestyle Network", constructed 12 independent online communities. This experiment showed that experimentally controlled variations in the structure of a network could control how far and how fast an innovation would spread. This was the first study to demonstrate the causal effects of network structure on the spread of behavior.
In 2011, Centola showed that the same method could be used to causally identify the effects of network homophily on the spread |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20167 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 167 is a Sustrans regional route in the Yorkshire Wolds between Kirkham and Huggate. It is one of 5 NCN routes that make up the 146 mile Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route. Created in 2011 it is fully open and signed.
Route
The entire route is on road, along quiet country lanes. The north western end is at Kirkham, where is joins the western end of NCN 166. It passes through the villages of Westow, Leavening and Thixendale on its way to its south eastern end at Huggate. Here it meets the northern section of NCN 164.
The Yorkshire Wolds is a rolling landscape, there are very few flat sections in this route.
The steepest gradients are the climbs out of Leavening and Thixendale when cycling towards Huggate.
Sustrans aims to extend the route north to Malton and Pickering.
Related NCN Routes
Route 167 meets the following routes:
166 at Kirkham
164 at Huggate
NCN 167 is part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route with:
References
External links
National Route 167 on the Sustrans website.
Cycleways in England
Cycling in Yorkshire
Yorkshire Wolds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK-80 | The TK-80 (μCOM Training Kit TK-80) was an 8080-based single-board computer kit developed by Nippon Electric Company (NEC) in 1976. It was originally developed for engineers who considered using the μCOM-80 family in their product. It was successful among hobbyists in late 1970s in Japan, due to its reasonable price and an expensive computer terminal not being required.
History
NEC started as a telecommunications equipment vendor, and their business was heavily dependent on Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT). To increase private demand and exports, NEC began developing new industries such as computers and semiconductors in the 1950s. Although those businesses were not profitable enough, NEC continued investing profits from successful telecommunication business.
In the 1970s, the Semiconductor Division developed several microprocessors including Intel compatible processors, and in 1976 got a second-source agreement with Intel to produce the 8080 microprocessor legally. However, the division had trouble marketing them. In Japan, few engineers were interested in microprocessors, and NEC salesmen couldn't find what kind of demand would make much profit.
In February 1976, the Semiconductor and Integrated Circuit Sales Division formed the Microcomputer Sales Section, and began to provide development environments for their microprocessors. , who was formerly manager of the Automation Promotion Section, became its section manager. However, they visited customers and explained, but it was difficult for them to understand how to use a microprocessor. At the same time, NEC received an order from a laboratory in the Yokosuka Communication Institute of NTT that they wanted an educational microcomputer product for their new employees. , a member of the section, proposed to Watanabe developing an educational kit. Based on this kit, the TK-80 was developed for general engineers and aimed to create a demand for microprocessors outside the industrial field.
Gotō mainly designed the TK-80, and did the detailed design work. Gotō got an idea from a photo of the KIM-1. The KIM-1 can monitor and show the current address by the software, but the display disappears when the CPU is hanging. The TK-80 has the Dynamic Display using the 555 timer IC and interrupt the CPU, it can always show the current address. In addition, the TK-80 has a CMOS battery. He decided to document its manual with a circuit diagram and assembly code of the debug monitor, influenced by the PDP-8 which was an open architecture and was used as an IC tester at NEC.
The TK-80 came out on August 3, 1976. It was priced at 88,500 yen, an engineer's section manager could approve at that time. NEC had opened a support center (Bit-INN) at the Akihabara Radio Kaikan on September 13, 1976. They found many machines were sold to not only electrical engineers but also businessmen, hobbyists and students. The TK-80 was sold more than 2,000 units per month, despite 200 units expected.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang%20Cai%20Zi%20Zhuan | The Tang Cai Zi Zhuan () is a Chinese collection of biographies of poets of the Tang Dynasty.
Compiler and date
It was compiled by the Yuan dynasty figure .
Contents
It is in ten volumes, and contains biographies of 278 poets.
Textual tradition
The work was lost in China from the mid-Ming dynasty. It was, however, copied in Japan at the Five Mountains, and that text was later reexported back to China at the end of the Qing dynasty.
References
Works cited
External links
Full text at the Chinese Text Project
Yuan dynasty literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20164 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 164 is a Sustrans regional route in the Yorkshire Wolds. The Northern section between Pocklington and Hutton Cranswick is part of the Way of the Roses, opened in 2010. The southern section links Beverley and Kiplingcotes via Newbold. Both sections are key parts of the 146 mile Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route, opened in 2011. It is fully open and signed.
Route
Pocklington to Hutton Cranswick
The northern section is entirely on road using quiet country lanes. Its western end is in Pocklington in the Vale of York. The route climbs up the Yorkshire Worlds through Millington Dale. It is a gentle climb compared to most of the roads up the scarp slope of the wold. The village of Huggate is shortly after the top of the climb. The route runs downhill to the Holderness Plain. Its eastern end is about two miles west of Hutton Cranswick where it meets NCN 1.
Kiplingcotes to Beverley
The western end of the southern section is in Kiplingcotes at a junction with NCN 66. The route heads south to Newbold, with steep roads in and out, then turns east to Walkington, Beverley Westwood. Its eastern end is in Beverley at a junction with NCN 1.
Related NCN Routes
Route 164 meets the following routes:
at Hutton Cranswick and Beverley
at Pocklington and Kiplingcotes
at Huggate
Route 164 (northern section) is part of the Way of the Roses along with:
Route 164 is part of the Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route with:
References
External links
National Route 164 on the Sustrans website.
Cycleways in England
Cycling in Yorkshire
Yorkshire Wolds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt%20Analysis | Schmitt analysis is a legal framework developed in 1999 by Michael N. Schmitt, leading author of the Tallinn Manual, for deciding if a state's involvement in a cyber-attack constitutes a use of force. Such a framework is important as part of international law's adaptation process to the growing threat of cyber-warfare. The characteristics of a cyber-attack can determine which legal regime will govern state behavior, and the Schmitt analysis is one of the most commonly used ways of analyzing those characteristics. It can also be used as a basis for training professionals in the legal field to deal with cyberwarfare.
Motivations
As society becomes more dependent on computers for critical infrastructure, countries have become increasingly concerned with threats in cyberspace. The prevalence of computers and the pace of technological innovation has advanced civilization significantly but has left many vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Countries must be prepared to defend themselves and know how to respond accordingly to computer network attacks (CNAs). These unique attacks are different in many ways to the physical uses of force that happen in traditional warfare. Attackers can now remotely disable their targets simply through the transmission of data. CNAs also have a broad definition, and not every CNA enacted by one State upon another is sufficient reason for States to escalate into armed engagement.
Depending on if the CNA is treated as a use of force or not, the offending party would be judged based on either IHL or IHRL. And the jus ad bellum is the body of law that defines when it is reasonable for sovereign states to resort to use of force to defend their resources, people and interests. Article 51 of the UN Charter defines a situation where a sovereign state might employ use of force, and it states that:
"Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security."
A State has the autonomy to act in self-defense, but it needs proof that there is an imminent threat. It also needs to act according to the criteria of proportionality and necessity. The Schmitt analysis is a framework for evaluating a CNA, according to seven parameters, to determine if it constitutes a wrongful use of force, and for governments to decide on a valid course of action after being attacked.
Historical background
The Estonian Cyber-attacks of 2007, targeting Estonia's Internet resources, appea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20space | Proof of space (PoS) is a type of consensus algorithm achieved by demonstrating one's legitimate interest in a service (such as sending an email) by allocating a non-trivial amount of memory or disk space to solve a challenge presented by the service provider. The concept was formulated in 2013 by Dziembowski et al. and (with a different formulation) by Ateniese et al..
Proofs of space are very similar to proofs of work (PoW), except that instead of computation, storage is used to earn cryptocurrency. Proof-of-space is different from memory-hard functions in that the bottleneck is not in the number of memory access events, but in the amount of memory required.
After the release of Bitcoin, alternatives to its PoW mining mechanism were researched, and PoS was studied in the context of cryptocurrencies. Proofs of space are seen as a fairer and greener alternative by blockchain enthusiasts due to the general-purpose nature of storage and the lower energy cost required by storage.
In 2014, Signum (formerly Burstcoin) became the first practical implementation of a PoS (initially as proof of capacity) blockchain technology and is still actively developed. Other than Signum, several theoretical and practical implementations of PoS have been released and discussed, such as SpaceMint and Chia, but some were criticized for increasing demand and shortening the life of storage devices due to greater disc reading requirements than Signum.
Concept description
A proof-of-space is a piece of data that a prover sends to a verifier to prove that the prover has reserved a certain amount of space. For practicality, the verification process needs to be efficient, namely, consume a small amount of space and time. For security, it should be hard for the prover to pass the verification if it does not actually reserve the claimed amount of space.
One way of implementing PoS is by using hard-to-pebble graphs. The verifier asks the prover to build a labeling of a hard-to-pebble graph. The prover commits to the labeling. The verifier then asks the prover to open several random locations in the commitment.
Proof of storage
A proof of storage (also proof of retrievability, proof of data possession) is related to a proof-of-space, but instead of showing that space is available for solving a puzzle, the prover shows that space is actually used to store a piece of data correctly at the time of proof.
Cryptocurrencies intended to assign value to store data use some form of this system; examples include Chives, Storj, Sia, Filecoin, and Arweave.
Proof of capacity
A proof of capacity is a system where miners are allowed to pre-calculate ("plot") PoW functions and store them onto the HDD. The first implementation of proof of capacity was Signum (formerly burstcoin).
Conditional proof of capacity
The Proof of Capacity (PoC) consensus algorithm is used in some cryptocurrencies. Conditional Proof of Capacity (CPOC) is an improved version of PoC. It has a work, stake, and ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20155 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 155 is a Sustrans regional route in Northumberland. Running from the North Sea coast at Newbiggin due west to Morpeth. The 90% of this 8 mile route uses shared cycle/pedstrian verge-side paths. There is a small on road section in Ashington. The route is fully signed and open.
Route
Starting at the sea front in Newbiggin, NCN 155 begins to climb at a very gentle gradient as it passes through Ashington. It reaches it high point, 65m above sea level, between Pegswood and Morpeth. From this point there is a steep descent down to Morpeth where the route ends.
Related NCN Routes
Route 155 crosses 1 at Ashington .
References
External links
National Route 155 on the Sustrans website.
Cycleways in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family7 | Family7 is a Dutch faith-based television channel. The programming is in line with Evangelicalism. Family7 is funded by donations from viewers, donors and some companies in exchange for advertising spots between programs on the channel.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrology | Biometrology refers to measurement and data activities that provide quantitative characterization of biology. Biometrology advances laboratory techniques regarding scalable bioproducts or services.
Biometrology products
BioBricks Foundation is charting a technical standards framework that will serve as the driver and promoter of a high-quality, technical-standards process for synthetic biology based on BioBrick™ parts.
The Genome in a Bottle Consortium is a public-private-academic consortium hosted by NIST to develop the technical infrastructure (reference standards, reference methods, and reference data) to enable translation of the whole human genome sequencing to clinical practice. The priority of Genome in a Bottle is authoritative characterization of human genomes for use in analytical validation and technology development, optimization, and demonstration.
Characterization of relative activities of a reference collection of BioBrick promoters in order to further support adoption of RPU-based measurement standards.
See also
Metrology
References
Metrology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ET-188 | ET-188 was an IBM PC XT compatible computer made by the Yugoslav company Novkabel (Novosadska fabrika kabela - Novi Sad Cable Factory) from Novi Sad (now Serbia) in the 1980s.
Novkabel already had experience in developing computer systems (ERA 20, ERA 60 and others) which was used to make ET-188 as an original design, compatible with IBM PC XT.
To save space and to lower the cost, ET-188 used 8 MHz Intel 80188 CPU, with integrated timer, DMA and interrupt controller. This also made it faster than the original XT.
ET-188 was offered to the public in 1985 and advertised in the Yugoslav computer press.
An improved ET-188A model was in May 1986 presented to the public at the Belgrade International Fair of Technique and Technical Advancements with more RAM and a new redesigned case.
Among other things, ET-188A was used for education in classrooms throughout Vojvodina province.
Technical specifications
CPU: Intel 80188 running at 8 MHz
ROM: 8 KB custom made BIOS
RAM: 256KB (ET-188) or 512 KB (ET-188A), expandable up to 640 KB
Operating system: MS-DOS 3.20
Secondary storage: 2 x 5.25’’ 360KB floppy drive or 5.25’’ 360KB floppy drive + 22MB Tandon hard disk
Display: CGA or Hercules compatible adapter
Sound: beeper
I/O ports: DE9 video output, RS-232, parallel port, keyboard
References
IBM PC compatibles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellis-Owl | Trellis Owl (alternately, Trellis or Trellis-Owl) is a defunct object-oriented programming language created by Digital Equipment Corporation. A programming environment, just called Trellis, was also produced.
References
Programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20factor%20binding%20site%20databases | Transcription factors are proteins that bind genomic regulatory sites. Identification of genomic regulatory elements is essential for understanding the dynamics of developmental, physiological and pathological processes. Recent advances in chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) have provided powerful ways to identify genome-wide profiling of DNA-binding proteins and histone modifications. The application of ChIP-seq methods has reliably discovered transcription factor binding sites and histone modification sites.
Transcription factor binding site databases
Comprehensive List of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) databases based on ChIP-seq data as follows:
References
Bioinformatics
Genetics databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Sisters is an Australian television drama series, created by Jonathan Gavin and Imogen Banks, and produced by Imogen Banks and Nicole O'Donahue, that screened locally on Network Ten in October 2017 and launched as a Netflix Original Series on September 1, 2018.
Synopsis
Sisters follows the story of Julia Bechly as her life is turned upside-down when her father, in vitro fertilisation pioneer Dr Julius Bechly, publishes a deathbed confession that during his award-winning 30 year career as a fertility specialist, he used his own sperm and is potentially the father of hundreds of children. Julia decides to make the most of the situation and throws a family gathering where she finds out she has hundreds of brothers, but only two sisters: troubled children's television star Roxy Karibas and belligerent lawyer Edie Flanagan.
Cast
Main
Maria Angelico as Julia Bechly
Lucy Durack as Roxy Karibas
Antonia Prebble as Edie Flanagan
Barry Otto as Julius Bechly
Charlie Garber as Isaac Hulme
Dan Spielman as Tim
Roy Billing as Ron Karibas
Magda Szubanski as Diane Karibas
Catherine McClements as Genevieve
Lindsay Farris as Carl Logan
Zindzi Okenyo as Amanda
Recurring
Joel Creasey as Oscar
Remy Hii as Sam
Maude Davey as Barbara
Ming-Zhu Hii as Angela
Zahra Newman as Felicity
Emily Barclay as Casey
Episodes
Ratings
American remake
In February 2019, U.S. network Fox ordered a pilot for a U.S. remake of Sisters with Annie Weisman and Jason Katims (The Path and Parenthood) producing. Not Just Me was ordered to series on Fox in May 2019, for 2019–20 United States network television season. However in June 2019, reported that the series change the title to Almost Family.
References
External links
Network 10 original programming
2010s Australian drama television series
2017 Australian television series debuts
2017 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis%20%28programming%20language%29 | Haggis is a high-level reference programming language used primarily to examine computing science for Scottish pupils taking SQA courses on the subject. Haggis is used as a tool to bridge the gap between pseudocode and typical computer programming.
Haggis is not based on any one language but a mixture that is intended to allow a pupil familiar with any of the many languages used in classrooms to easily understand the syntactic construct being used in an example. It has multiple programming paradigms of functional, imperative and object-oriented to suit this purpose.
There are three separate language definitions, one for each level at which computing is assessed by the SQA; these are proper subsets of each other, so for example any program contained by the National 5 level language is also well-defined at Higher and Advanced Higher levels. Higher includes the definition of procedures and functions and the use of record types and files, while Advanced Higher includes object-orientation.
Online Haggis interpreters have been developed to provide a way for examiners and teachers to check their programs are correctly defined and behave as expected.
Overview
In Scotland, school-level computing qualifications are awarded by the Scottish Qualifications Authority. A decision was made for computing courses that a single choice of programming language for examination should not be mandated: this allows teachers to choose languages as appropriate to context. This however leaves the issue of how to examine programming, especially in the light of recent educational research which encourages the teaching of reading and understanding code as a core discipline, which should therefore be examined.
Initially, a form of pseudocode language emerged among examiners, to avoid any such language dependency. However this led to the very undesirable situation that, while students are being taught about the importance of rigour of terms in a programming language, they can look back over previous years of examinations and see non-standard use of coding which varies from example to example.
Haggis is the solution to this. Haggis is a formally-defined reference language, but its purpose is to examine programming, not to write programs. A further requirement is that it must not be a mandatory part of the curriculum, so students who have never previously seen the language should be able to read it. These aspects, along with an attempt to conform as far as possible with the evolved pseudocode style, directed the specification of the language. So, while Haggis is in fact a programming language (even although, in general, not all Haggis programs are executable), it is not intended as a language in which to write programs.
These concepts are more fully explained in an academic paper.
History
Haggis was commissioned by the SQA in 2010 to provide a uniform syntax and form in which to present questions to pupils in assessments. Its present form was jointly developed by Quinti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Food%20Fight%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Family Food Fight (abbreviated as FFF) is an Australian reality competition television series that aired on the Nine Network from 30 October 2017 until 11 December 2018. The series saw diverse and multi-generational Australian families go head-to-head in high-pressure cooking challenges inspired by real home cooking and family food traditions to win an ultimate prize of $100,000.
Although the first season of the series had disappointing ratings, a desire to sell the show internationally led it to be renewed for a second season, which premiered on 29 October 2018. Despite a number of international adaptations, the show struggled to find an audience locally and no further seasons have been commissioned.
Production
The series was announced at Network Nine's upfronts in November 2016. Auditions opened in February 2017, searching for family teams of four people with all members required to be amateur cooks; auditions closed on 13 April 2017. In July 2017, Matt Moran, Hayden Quinn and Anna Polyviou were announced as judges of the series with Tom Parker Bowles to appear as a guest judge. In episode 15 it was announced that Parker Bowles would remain with the show for the finals, and so he appeared in all episodes.
Season 2 saw the teams reduced from four contestants to two. Hayden Quinn opted not to return as a judge for the second season.
Contestants
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018)
Ratings
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2018)
International versions
Argentina
In August 2018, the format to Family Food Fight was picked up by Argentine broadcaster Telefe. Endemol Shine Latino produced the series, which premiered on 23 September 2018.
Brazil
In July 2019, the format of Family Food Fight was picked up by Brazilian broadcaster SBT
which ordered a ten-episode series titled Famílias Frente a Frente (Families Face to Face) featuring twelve Brazilian families facing off in the kitchen. Endemol Shine Brasil produced the series, which was hosted by Tiago Abravanel and first released on Amazon Prime Video. The series premiered on 11 October 2019.
Italy
In October 2019, a local version of Family Food Fight was announced with Lidia Bastianich, Joe Bastianich and Antonino Cannavacciuolo as judges. The show premiered in March 2020, initially on Sky Uno.
Mexico
In April 2019, it was confirmed that the Mexican broadcaster Televisa acquired the franchise Family Food Fight to adapt it in Mexico in collaboration with Endemol Shine Boomdog and would be entitled Familias frente al fuego (Families in front of the fire). Its presenter is Inés Gómez Mont. It premiered on Las Estrellas on 14 July 2019.
Portugal
In November 2018, the format to Family Food Fight was picked up by Portuguese broadcaster RTP1. Endemol Shine Iberia produced the series, which premiered in 2019, titled as Famílias Frente a Frente (Families Face to Face).
Switzerland
In April 2019, Sat.1 announced that it would produce a five-part adaptation of the format, which premiered on 31 August 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling%20Cat-22 | Calling Cat-22 is a short-lived flash animated comedy series created by Matthew Schwartz through Turner Studios for the Cartoon Network Wedgies series, and was produced by Steve Patrick, and directed by Jai Anthony-Lewis Husband. Schwartz and Patrick share the rights to the series. The title of the series is a parody of the 1961 novel Catch-22.
The series theme was performed by electronic pop duo Nova Social. The series debuted on June 1, 2008 on the Cartoon Network channel in the intervals of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack; and was used thereafter as an interstitial until 2010, when it was moved to Cartoon Network's sister-network Boomerang, where it ran till 2015.
The series consists of five two-and-a-half-minute episodes.
Summary
In form, the series is a parody of spy thrillers of the James Bond variety, in which the eponymous Cat-22, an agent for a secret organization of cats directed by Gato Primo (voiced by Garrett Fisher), seeks to discover the mysteries associated with the life of dogs (who, despite their oblivious imbecility in the series, are treated by the cats like agents of a hostile superpower or enemy agency).
Each episode's plot follows a set formula. 22, (a rail-thin black cat in a stereotypical "men-in-black"-style secret agent suit) is found relaxing in some foreign venue, until given a briefcase containing an assignment by Agent Andrew (a short, stout black cat with a poncy English accent); the briefcase conveys a communication from Gato Primo to investigate some (usually disgusting) feature of canine life, invariably concluding with a Mission: Impossible-like warning from Gato that "This briefcase will self-destruct..." and 22's subsequent resulting injury.
Thereupon, 22 is seen in "disguise" (a brown beanie with doggie ears), attempting to gain information from his moronic canine friend, Guthrie (David Markus) (and, on occasion, the brutal bulldog, Percy); invariably, complications follow, involving comic injury and humiliation, which are generally only heightened by Gato's attempts to extract him from the situation. Typically, Andrew generally reappears at the end of the episode to reassure 22 that he will soon be back on assignment, whereupon 22 attempts to escape (often resulting in further injury).
Episodes
References
External links
Cartoon Network original programming
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s American animated television series
American children's animated comedy television series
Animated television series about cats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20network | Deep network may refer to
Deep belief network
Deep neural network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco%20Moliterno | Eco Moliterno is a Brazilian advertising executive and the Chief Creative Executive Officer of Accenture Interactive for Latin America, one of the largest and fastest growing digital agency networks according to Advertising Age. Previously, Moliterno was the executive creative director at Africa, one of the leading agencies in Brazil, as part of Grupo ABC, where he worked for 7 years.
He was considered one of the 20 most influential advertising professionals of Brazil in 2015 and one of the 15 most influential Brazilians on the Internet in the same year.
In 2016, Moliterno was named the second most admired advertising professional by industry peers, according to the Spanish research company Scopen.
Early life and education
Moliterno graduated with a degree in Advertising from the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), but started his professional career at the age of 16 as a caricaturist for Rock Brigade magazine. At 17, he moved to Denmark to finish high school, when he experienced the internet for the first time.
Career
Back in Brazil in 1997, Moliterno started working for Oficcinæ Design, an illustration studio that created projects for clients such as Folha de S.Paulo, Editora Abril and Editora Globo. During this period, he also developed board games for GROW, a Brazilian toy company.
In 2000, he took over as art director at Agência Click, the first digital agency in the country. Three years later, Moliterno became chief designer of AOL Brazil, and during that period he received the Cyber Lions award at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for three consecutive years (2003, 2004 and 2005).
In 2005, he held the position of creative director at Tesla, a studio specializing in professional IT services for system development, where he worked for one year with clients such as General Motors, Sun Microsystems and NIVEA.
After his work at Tesla, he became the creative vice president of Wunderman for Latin America. During the three years he worked there, he won another Cannes Cyber Lion in 2008, and a Media Lion, in 2009.
In July 2009, he became digital creation director in Y&R and was a judge at the Cannes Festival for the Cyber category. A year later, in 2010, he was invited to act as creative director in Africa Propaganda, agency of Grupo ABC. He became Head of Digital of the agency in 2011 and Executive Creative Director in 2014.
In 2011, Moliterno was considered one of the 10 most innovative professionals of Digital Marketing in Brazil by Meio & Mensagem. In the same year, he was a speaker at the D&AD/ESPM White Pencil Round Table. In 2012, he took part of Think Branding with Google, being there again in 2014 and 2016 (in Madrid), and also took part of ProXXIma Pocket, being present again in 2013, 2014 and 2016.
He was also the first online creative professional to win the Caboré Award as the Creative Professional of the Year in 2013 and in 2016 he won the ABRADi-SP Award as Digital Professional.
In 2017, Moliterno presided o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achirus%20scutum | The network sole (Achirus scutum) is a sole of the genus Achirus native to the eastern Pacific from the tip of Baja California and the southeastern Gulf of California to northern Peru. This demersal species growth up to (typically 13 cm). It is found at depths 5–45 m in coastal lagoons and fresh water. Its diet consists of crustaceans, small fishes, polychaetes, and occasionally detritus.
References
Achiridae
Fauna of the Baja California Peninsula
Western Central American coastal fauna
Fish of Colombia
Fish of Ecuador
Fish described in 1869
Taxa named by Albert Günther |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20Hospital | Metro Group of Hospitals is an Indian hospital network with 10 NABH and 4 NABL accredited hospitals operational across India. With 2,500 beds, the hospital network is the largest tertiary care provider in the region.
Founder
The hospital system was founded in 1997 by Dr. Purshotam Lal, an Indian cardiologist who also serves as the chairman and director of Interventional Cardiology at the hospital. Dr. Lal has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan (2009), Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shree. He specializes in non-surgical closure of heart holes (ASD/VSD), non-surgical replacement of valves, and treatment of multiple sclerosis.
Hospitals in the Network
Metro Hospitals & Heart Institute, Noida-12, UP
Metro Hospitals & Heart Institute, Sector-11, UP
Metro Hospital & Cancer Institute, Preet Vihar, Delhi
Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, Lajpat Nagar, Delhi
Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, Gurugram, Haryana
RLKC Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, Pandav Nagar, Delhi
Heart Institute & Multispecialty, Faridabad, Delhi NCR
Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Metro MAS Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, Meerut, UP
Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, Rewari, Haryana
Metro Hospital & Research Institute, Vadodara, Gujarat
References
External links
Dr. Purshotam Lal - Transforming healthcare with a vision Envisioning a healthy India, Metro Group of Hospitals. Yahoo News, 12th October 2020
डॉ. पुरूषोत्तम लाल ने किया मेट्रो अस्पताल को पूर्ण रूप से टेकओवर. Amar Ujala
https://www.wefornews.com/arrest-warrant-issued-against-chairman-of-metro-hospital-group/
Hospitals in Haryana
1997 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Hospitals established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP%20%28Polish%20TV%20channel%29 | WP is a Polish television channel, launched on 2 December 2016. The channel is owned by Wirtualna Polska Holding, owner of one of the largest Polish web portals, Wirtualna Polska.
Programming
Own production
# (#) – current affairs program, hosted by Kamila Biedrzycka-Osica and Małgorzata Serafin
# (#) – news program, hosted by Maciej Orłoś, Małgorzata Serafin, Marcin Antosiewicz, Michał Siegieda
Pudelek Show – tabloid magazine, hosted by Małgorzata Tomaszewska and Bilguun Ariunbaatar
Series
Orphan Black
The Fall ()
Death in Paradise ()
Call the Midwife ()
Parade's End ()
Mistresses ()
Scott & Bailey
Unreal
The Bridge ()
Catherine ()
Prisoners of War ()
Mujeres de negro ()
Reality shows
Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands ()
Love It or List It
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andela | Andela is a global job placement network for software developers. Andela focuses on sustainable careers, connecting technologists with long-term engagements, access to international roles, competitive compensation, and career coaching through the Andela Learning Community.
History
Andela was founded in 2014 by Jeremy Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Nadayar Enegesi, Brice Nkengsa, Ian Carnevale, and Christina Sass. In May 2014, Andela launched their first recruitment cycle in Lagos by putting their first call for applications on Twitter. The company hired their first cohort—four Nigerian software engineers—after receiving 700 applications for 4 spots.
In 2018, Andela celebrated the first two sets of engineers to complete the four-year program.
In 2019, Christina Sass stepped down from her full-time role as President and transitioned into a supporting role as the Chair of the Andela Advisory Council and the Andela Alumni Group. Of the six original founders, Jeremy Johnson continues to work at Andela.
While the initial route for engineers to join the company was via the Andela Fellowship, a four-year program geared towards junior engineers, this changed in 2019. Andela widened its hiring criteria for mid and senior-level engineers in Lagos, Nairobi, and Kampala. After their first remote expansions to Ghana and Egypt, the entire organization went fully remote in 2020.
As of 2021, Andela provides technologists from six continents to access opportunities with global companies on long-term embedded contracts. Andela’s applicants can undertake training in software languages such as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, React Native, Node, PHP, and more.
Funding
On June 25, 2015, Andela secured $10 million in Series A funding. Spark Capital led the investment and many of the Seed investors participated.
The following year, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—founded and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan—led in Andela’s $24 million Series B round of funding, making it the first lead investment ever for the foundation.
In October 2017, Andela secured $40 million in Series C funding, bringing the total the company had raised to $80 million. The investment, led by CRE Venture Capital—a South African-based venture firm—is one of the largest investments to be led by an African venture firm into an African company.
In January 2019, Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment management firm, led Andela's $100M Series D round of funding, bringing Andela’s total venture funding to $180M. The Series D also included Serena Williams’ investment platform, Serena Ventures.
On September 29, 2021, Andela announced $200M Investment led by Softbank Vision Fund 2 with participation from new investor Whale Rock and existing investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Spark Capital. Lydia Jett, founding partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, joined Andela’s Board of Directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%202016%20box%20office%20number-one%20films%20in%20Taipei | List of 2016 box office number-one films in Taipei. The data using weekend three-day movie box office information。At present, there is no transparent calculation method for box office in Taiwan. Most of the time using Taipei movie box office as a multiple of opera.
The box office list
(Unit: Ten thousandNew Taiwan dollar)
See also
List of highest-grossing films in Taiwan
References
External links
2016
Taipai
2016 in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Mountains%20Library | The Blue Mountains Library is a network of six branch libraries located within the City of Blue Mountains Council administrative area.
History
In 1963 following community pressure, the Blue Mountains City Council commissioned a report from the Library Board of NSW on the establishment of a free public library service. This was presented to Council 28 January 1964, where it was resolved not to adopt the Library Act due to the cost of providing the service. The report recommended a central library with administration at Katoomba and a full-time branch at Springwood with part-time branches at Lawson, Blackheath, and Wentworth Falls with a bookmobile service to outlying areas. Operating costs were based on a State Government subsidy of 3/- per capita and a Council contribution of 9/- per capita dropping to 7/- per capita in the third year of operation. Average library operating costs in NSW at the time were £0/10/4 per capita (In today's terms this equates to an approximate value of 10/- = $30.00, £1/0/0 = $60.00). So the status quo continued in the Blue Mountains, the public demand for library services was supplied by the various township literary institute libraries and by a number of small commercial subscription libraries. The Blue Mountains City Council paid an annual subsidy to a number of the Schools of Arts libraries to cover running costs and wages. Until finally, in 1967, after protracted debate and lobbying, Council adopted the Library Act and quickly came to an agreement with the remaining management committees to take over full operational responsibility for all public library services across the city.
By the end of 1975, branches were operating in Springwood, Katoomba, Blaxland, Lawson, Blackheath and Mount Victoria and the library had registered 16,033 borrowers from a population of just over 47,000. Only one central card catalogue existed until simplified author, title and subject print-outs were introduced to all branches in 1976, a Microfiche catalogue became available in 1978.
The Book Plus Library Management System was adopted in 1982 and an online public access catalogue was introduced in 1985. Public access PCs with dial-up Internet were introduced in 1998, this was later expanded to a broadband connection. The Horizon Library Management System was introduced in 2003. SirsiDynix Symphony was introduced in 2012.
Locations
Collections and services
In addition to the network's collection of books the libraries provide for the loan of CDs, DVDs, magazines, newspapers, and non-English books. The libraries also provide internet, Wi-Fi, photocopying and printing services.
Membership
The library serves a population of 79,812. The library has around 41,000 members and processes over 500,000 loans per year. Membership of the library network is free to residents of the City of Blue Mountains local government area.
References
External links
Public libraries in Australia
Libraries in New South Wales
Blue Mountains (New South Wal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%2013%29 | The thirteenth season of Australian reality television series The Block premiered on 30 July 2017 on the Nine Network. Both hosts Scott Cam (host) and Shelley Craft (Challenge Master) returned from the previous season, as did the three judges: Neale Whitaker, Shaynna Blaze and Darren Palmer.
Production
On 8 November 2016, The Block was renewed for a thirteenth season at Nine's upfronts. Applications for the thirteenth season of the series opened on January 9, 2017, with energetic couples aged between 18 and 65 years old being sought by casting agents. Filming for the season is scheduled to occur between April 2017 and July 2017. The casting call also specifies first round couples will be reduced to final participants in the first week of filming, which suggests Season 13 will feature an elimination round similar to that of Season 5.
On 11 March 2017, it was reported that a vacant block of land at 46 Regent Street, Elsternwick, had been purchased for $9.6 million back in December 2016, with plans approved to build a five lot subdivision, meaning for the first time ever, they would be building a property from the ground up, instead of renovating an existing building. On 17 March 2017, it was officially confirmed that 46 Regent Street Elsternwick will be the location of The Block'''s thirteenth season with filming to begin on 27 April 2017, however they will not be building a property from the ground up, as five old rundown weatherboard houses are being relocated to the location, meaning this will be the first time since the sixth season the contestants will renovate a house.The Block’s open for inspection took place on Sunday, 15 October 2017. The Block auctions (or Block-tions) for the houses were held on Saturday, 28 October 2017. Elyse & Josh won the series with comedian Dave Hughes buying their property for over $3m.
Contestants
This is the fifth season of The Block to have five couples instead of the traditional four couples. Each team will renovate a house which have each been relocated from different suburbs around Melbourne.
Score history
Weekly Room Prize
Results
Judges' scores
Colour key:
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Challenge scores
Domain Prize
Each week during the weekly walkthrough, Alice Stolz from Domain will judge each team's current room. She judges each room on suitability, continuity and flow, functionality, progress & budget. The weekly winner will be awarded a $5,000 weekly prize that is split equally in cash and marketing with domain. Each week the points are tallied and the team at the end with the highest score will have themselves and their property featured on the cover of Domain Magazine.
Auction
Ratings
Notes
Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
In House 3 resided a secret vault of which the contents were unknown until it was opened. Whoever selected House 3 ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Time%20Next%20Year%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | This Time Next Year is an Australian reality television show based on the British show of the same name. Hosted by Karl Stefanovic, it premiered on 31 July 2017 on the Nine Network.
In August 2017, the series was renewed for a second season with applications closing by 8 December 2017, with the season airing on 12 August 2019.
Premise
The series sees participants make a pledge to attain a personal life goal (such as losing weight or starting a new career) that they will then attempt to achieve over the next year. The participant then appears to leave the set and then return moments later with one year having passed, the transition made seamless through editing. They are then interviewed about what they have achieved and the challenges they faced during the past year.
Series overview
Viewership
Season 1 (2017)
Season 2 (2019)
See also
List of Australian television series
List of programs broadcast by Nine Network
References
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian reality television series
2017 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogeum%20of%20Sant%27Iroxi | The Hypogeum of Sant'Iroxi (also known as the Tomb of the warriors) is an archaeological site located near the town of Decimoputzu in the province of South Sardinia.
Datation
The site (a domus de janas), discovered in 1987, dates back to 3000 BC in the late Neolithic Age, and was used for about 1,500 years by the nearby village to which it belonged, from the Ozieri culture period until that of Bonnannaro.
Grave goods
It owes its name (Tomb of the warriors) to the large number of skeletons (more than 200), deposited in 13 chronological strata, and for the rich military kit, dated to c. 1650-1600 BC, which includes swords and daggers of arsenical copper (19 in all). The swords and triangular blades range in length from 27 up to 66 cm and show some similarities to the swords of the El Argar culture (southeastern Spain). The kit is kept at the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.
Notes
Bibliography
Archaeological sites in Sardinia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ika-6%20na%20Utos | (pronounced as Ika-anim na Utos / international title: A Woman Scorned / ) is a Philippine television drama revenge series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Laurice Guillen, it stars Sunshine Dizon, Gabby Concepcion and Ryza Cenon. It premiered on December 5, 2016 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Oh, My Mama!. On April 1, 2017, it joined the network's Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing Case Solved. The series concluded on March 17, 2018 with a total of 383 episodes. It was replaced by Contessa in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Rome and Emma have problems and when issues arise, their marriage is in jeopardy. Rome eventually meets Georgia, who will become his mistress.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sunshine Dizon as Emma Doqueza de Jesus-Fuentabella
Gabby Concepcion as Jerome "Rome" Fuentabella / Jordan "Boss J" Francisco
Ryza Cenon as Georgia "Adyang" Ferrer / Athena Francisco
Supporting cast
Mike Tan as Angelo Trinidad
Rich Asuncion as Flora "Flor" Trinidad
Daria Ramirez as Lourdes Doqueza-de Jesus
Carmen Soriano as Margarita vda. de Fuentabella
Marco Alcaraz as Chandler Vasquez
Mel Martinez as Zeny
Arianne Bautista as Anselma "Selma" Del Rosario
Recurring cast
Zach Briz as young Austin
Odette Khan as Loleng / Consuelo Domingo vda. de Guidotti
Marife Necesito as Vicky
Ollie Espino as Mando
Rosemarie Sarita as Mildred Ferrer
Eunice Lagusad as Becca
Angelica Ulip as Sydney Ferrer Fuentabella / Milan de Jesus Fuentabella
Cai Cortez as Charlotte Amalie "Char" Ledesma
Pen Medina as Antonio “Noel” de Jesus
Jacob Briz as Austin de Jesus Fuentabella
Angelika Dela Cruz as Geneva "Gengen" Ferrer-Takahashi
Guest cast
Elijah Alejo as young Emma
Karel Marquez as Lara Salcedo-Fuentabella
Lito Legaspi as Allan
Toby Alejar as Orlando
Anna Marin as Anita
Marcus Madrigal as Dave
Sheila Marie Rodriguez as Cynthia
Allan Paule as Danilo
Luane Dy as a television host
Aprilyn Gustillo as Grace
Zoren Legaspi as Lyon Muller
Chynna Ortaleza as Maui Alcaraz
Leanne Bautista as Chelsea Muller
Lharby Policarpio as Morgan
Vince Gamad as Darwin
Elle Ramirez as Kenya
Marnie Lapuz as Chona
Bryan Benedict as Nato
Ranty Portento as Brian Santiago
Izzy Trazona-Aragon as Alberta Alcaraz-Muller
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement, the pilot episode of earned an
11.9% rating. While the final episode scored an 8.6% rating. The series had its highest rating on people in television homes on July 28, 2017 with a 10.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2016 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series about revenge
Adultery in television
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Caywood | Thomas E. Caywood (May 9, 1919 – December 19, 2008) was an American computer scientist and cofounder of the Operations Research Society of America.
Early life
Thomas E. Caywood was born on May 9, 1919, in Lake Park, Iowa, to Alice (née Ballenbach) and Harry E. Caywood, dentist, mayor and township clerk of Lake Park. He graduated from Lake Park High School in 1935. Caywood received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and physics from Cornell College in 1939. He then received a Master of Arts in mathematics from Northwestern University in 1940. He went on to join the Harvard Systems Research Laboratory. Having gained a PhD from Harvard University in 1947. His thesis was titled Axially Symmetric Harmonic Functions and he was advised by Garrett Birkhoff.
Career
Caywood moved to the Institute for Air Weapons Research at the University of Chicago. He then joined the Armour Research Foundation of the IIT Research Institute as a supervisor of operations research. In 1953, he co-founded Caywood-Shiller Associates, an independent consulting firm for the industry and military, and served as a managing partner for 25 years. After he retired, he taught operations research as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and California State University, East Bay.
In 1965 his name appeared on a list of academics involved with Project Camelot.
He became president of Cornell College board of trustees in 1970 and served as the president of the National Research Society. He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Personal life
Caywood married Mary Miller of Buffalo Center, Iowa, in 1941. She also attended Cornell College.
Death
Caywood died on December 19, 2008, in Peoria, Arizona.
Awards
Caywood received the George E. Kimball Medal in 1974. He also received the J. Steinhardt Prize.
References
1919 births
2008 deaths
People from Dickinson County, Iowa
Harvard University alumni
Project Camelot
Northwestern University alumni
Cornell College alumni
University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty
California State University, East Bay faculty
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika%20dela%20Cruz | Mariko Nicolette dela Cruz (born December 9, 1998), better known as Mika dela Cruz, is a Japanese-born Austrian-Filipino, actress, singer and model. She is currently an artist of GMA Network.
Personal life
Mika was born to a Filipino father and an Italian-Austrian mother. She is also the younger sister of Angelika Dela Cruz.
Career
Mika started her showbiz career with ABS-CBN Network. Mika is known for portraying teen to older characters, and is usually paired with Nash Aguas, Andre Garcia and Aaron Junatas.
On November 8, 2016, after 11 years with Star Magic, Mika officially signs with GMA Artist Center and becomes a contract artist of GMA Network.
Filmography
Television
Film
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
1998 births
Living people
ABS-CBN personalities
Actresses from Metro Manila
Actresses from Tokyo
Filipino child actresses
Filipino film actresses
Filipino people of Austrian descent
Filipino people of Italian descent
Filipino television actresses
GMA Network personalities
Actors from Malabon
Star Circle Quest participants
Star Magic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative%20weight%20update%20method | The multiplicative weights update method is an algorithmic technique most commonly used for decision making and prediction, and also widely deployed in game theory and algorithm design. The simplest use case is the problem of prediction from expert advice, in which a decision maker needs to iteratively decide on an expert whose advice to follow. The method assigns initial weights to the experts (usually identical initial weights), and updates these weights multiplicatively and iteratively according to the feedback of how well an expert performed: reducing it in case of poor performance, and increasing it otherwise. It was discovered repeatedly in very diverse fields such as machine learning (AdaBoost, Winnow, Hedge), optimization (solving linear programs), theoretical computer science (devising fast algorithm for LPs and SDPs), and game theory.
Name
"Multiplicative weights" implies the iterative rule used in algorithms derived from the multiplicative weight update method. It is given with different names in the different fields where it was discovered or rediscovered.
History and background
The earliest known version of this technique was in an algorithm named "fictitious play" which was proposed in game theory in the early 1950s. Grigoriadis and Khachiyan applied a randomized variant of "fictitious play" to solve two-player zero-sum games efficiently using the multiplicative weights algorithm. In this case, player allocates higher weight to the actions that had a better outcome and choose his strategy relying on these weights. In machine learning, Littlestone applied the earliest form of the multiplicative weights update rule in his famous winnow algorithm, which is similar to Minsky and Papert's earlier perceptron learning algorithm. Later, he generalized the winnow algorithm to weighted majority algorithm. Freund and Schapire followed his steps and generalized the winnow algorithm in the form of hedge algorithm.
The multiplicative weights algorithm is also widely applied in computational geometry such as Kenneth Clarkson's algorithm for linear programming (LP) with a bounded number of variables in linear time. Later, Bronnimann and Goodrich employed analogous methods to find set covers for hypergraphs with small VC dimension.
In operation research and on-line statistical decision making problem field, the weighted majority algorithm and its more complicated versions have been found independently.
In computer science field, some researchers have previously observed the close relationships between multiplicative update algorithms used in different contexts. Young discovered the similarities between fast LP algorithms and Raghavan's method of pessimistic estimators for derandomization of randomized rounding algorithms; Klivans and Servedio linked boosting algorithms in learning theory to proofs of Yao's XOR Lemma; Garg and Khandekar defined a common framework for convex optimization problems that contains Garg-Konemann and Plotkin-Shmoys-Tar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-time%20quantum%20Monte%20Carlo | In computational solid state physics, Continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) is a family of stochastic algorithms for solving the Anderson impurity model at finite temperature. These methods first expand the full partition function as a series of Feynman diagrams, employ Wick's theorem to group diagrams into determinants, and finally use Markov chain Monte Carlo to stochastically sum up the resulting series.
The attribute continuous-time was introduced to distinguish the method from the then-predominant Hirsch–Fye quantum Monte Carlo method, which relies on a Suzuki–Trotter discretisation of the imaginary time axis.
If the sign problem is absent, the method can also be used to solve lattice models such as the Hubbard model at half filling. To distinguish it from other Monte Carlo methods for such systems that also work in continuous time, the method is then usually referred to as Diagrammatic determinantal quantum Monte Carlo (DDQMC or DDMC).
Partition function expansion
In second quantisation, the Hamiltonian of the Anderson impurity model reads:
,
where and are the creation and annihilation operators, respectively, of a fermion on the impurity. The index collects the spin index and possibly other quantum numbers such as orbital (in the case of a multi-orbital impurity) and cluster site (in the case of multi-site impurity). and are the corresponding fermion operators on the non-interacting bath, where the bath quantum number will typically be continuous.
Step 1 of CT-QMC is to split the Hamiltonian into an exactly solvable term, , and the rest, . Different choices correspond to different expansions and thus different algorithmic descriptions. Common choices are:
Interaction expansion (CT-INT):
Hybridization expansion (CT-HYB):
Auxiliary field expansion (CT-AUX): like CT-INT, but the interaction term is first decoupled using a discrete Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation
Step 2 is to switch to the interaction picture and expand the partition function in terms of a Dyson series:
,
where is the inverse temperature and denotes imaginary time ordering. The presence of a (zero-dimensional) lattice regularises the series and the finite size and temperature of the system makes renormalisation unnecessary.
The Dyson series generates a factorial number of identical diagrams per order, which makes sampling more difficult and possibly worsen the sign problem. Thus, as step 3, one uses Wick's theorem to group identical diagrams into determinants. This leads to the expressions:
Interaction expansion (CT-INT):
Hybridisation expansion (CT-HYB):
In a final step, one notes that this is nothing but an integral over a large domain and performs it using a Monte Carlo method, usually the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm.
See also
Metropolis–Hastings algorithm
Quantum Monte Carlo
Dynamical mean field theory
References
Computational physics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley%20Org%C3%A1nica%20de%20Protecci%C3%B3n%20de%20Datos%20de%20Car%C3%A1cter%20Personal | The Organic Law 15/1999 of December 13 on Protection of Personal Data (, LOPD) was Spanish organic law that guaranteed and protected the processing of personal data, public liberties, and fundamental human rights, and especially of personal and family honor and privacy. It was approved by the General Court on December 13, 1999. This law was developed based on Article 18 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, the familiar and personal right to privacy, and the secrecy of communications.
Its main objective was to regulate the treatment of data and files, of a personal nature, regardless of the support in which they are treated, the rights of citizens over them and the obligations of those who create or treat them. This law affected all data that referred to registered humans on any support, computer or otherwise. Excluded from this regulation are those data collected for domestic use, classified materials of the state and those files that collected data on Terrorism and other forms of organized crime (not simple delinquency).
Based on this law, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection was created, at the state level, which ensures compliance with this Law.
This act was repealed by the passage of a new data protection act, the Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5, about protection of personal data and guarantees of digital rights, to conform the Spanish legislation with the General Data Protection Regulation
Regulatory development
The Royal Decree 994/1999 on Security Measures for automated files that containing personal data of June 11, 1999 (RMS): It is a regulation that develops the Organic Law 5/1992, of October 29, of Regulation of the Automated Treatment of Personal Data (LORTAD), regulates the technical and organizational measures that must be applied to the information systems in which personal data are processed in an automated way. (Repealed since April 19 of 2010)
The Royal Decree 1720/2007, of December 21 on the development of the Organic Law on Data Protection. It is a development of the Organic Law 15/99 of Data Protection of December 13; develops the principles of the law, and the security measures to be applied in the information systems. It applies to files in automated support, as in any other type of media.
Control bodies and possible sanctions
The body responsible for monitoring compliance with data protection regulations at Spanish territory, in general, is the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD),
there are other Data Protection Agencies of an autonomous nature, in Autonomous Communities of Catalonia and in Basque Country.
The sanctions are divided into three groups depending on the seriousness of the act committed, Spain being the country of the European Union that has the highest sanctions in terms of protection of data. These sanctions depend on the violation committed. The last company sanctioned has been the company Grupon, sanctioned by the state data protection agency, with 20 000 euros for storing the CVV codes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickHouse | ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented DBMS (columnar database management system) for online analytical processing (OLAP) that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time. ClickHouse Inc. is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with the subsidiary, ClickHouse B.V., based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In September 2021 in San Francisco, CA, ClickHouse incorporated to house the open source technology with an initial $50 million investment from Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital with participation by Yandex N.V. and others. On October 28, 2021 the company received Series B funding totaling $250 million at an valuation of $2 billion from Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital, and other investors. The company continues to build the open source project and engineering cloud technology.
History
ClickHouse’s technology was first developed over 10 years ago at Yandex, Russia's largest technology company. In 2009, Alexey Milovidov and developers started an experimental project to check the hypothesis if it was viable to generate analytical reports in real-time from non-aggregated data that is also constantly added in real-time. The developers spent 3 years to prove this hypothesis, and in 2012 ClickHouse launched in production for the first time to power Yandex.Metrica, the second-largest web analytics platform in the world, after Google Analytics.
Unlike custom data structures used before, ClickHouse was applicable more generally to work as a database management system. The power and utility of ClickHouse offered a true column-oriented DBMS, it allowed for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. ClickHouse was widely adopted at Yandex including for Yandex.Tank load testing tool and Yandex.Market to monitor site accessibility and KPIs.
In 2016, the ClickHouse project was released as open-source software under the Apache 2 license in June 2016 to power analytical use cases around the globe. The systems at the time offered a server throughput of a hundred thousand rows per second, ClickHouse out performed that speed with a throughput of hundreds of millions of rows per second.
Since ClickHouse became available as open source in 2016, its popularity has grown exponentially, as evidenced through adoption by industry-leading companies like Uber, Comcast, eBay, and Cisco. ClickHouse was also implemented at CERN's LHCb experiment to store and process metadata on 10 billion events with over 1000 attributes per event.
Features
The main features of the ClickHouse DBMS are:
True column-oriented DBMS. Nothing is stored with the values. For example, constant-length values are supported to avoid storing their length "number" next to the values.
Linear scalability. It's possible to extend a cluster by adding servers.
Fault tolerance. The system is a cluster of shards, where each shard is a group of replicas. ClickHouse uses asynchronous multi-master replication. Data is writt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Lloyd%20Mahaffey | C. Lloyd Mahaffey (born December 31, 1954) is an American computer executive, who led the Apple Education division, and then Apple's Federal Systems Group in Washington, D.C., which concentrated on the U.S. Department of Defense, civilian and intelligence agencies.
Early life and education
Mahaffey was born on December 31, 1954, in Rock Hill, South Carolina to Nancy and Lloyd Mahaffey.
He graduated in 1978 from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. In 1987, Mahaffey enrolled in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Technology Executive Program, where his attendance was sponsored by Apple.
Professional career
After graduating from The Citadel in 1978, Mahaffey accepted a position at PCA International, where he used Honeywell industrial process controls to manage water and air temperature for photographic processing. In 1980 he joined Honeywell as a sales engineer, and was promoted to Sales Manager over the Carolinas division in 1981.
Apple
In 1983, he was recruited by Apple to be a District Manager for the Carolinas and Tennessee where he participated in the launch of a project, the Apple Macintosh In 1984, he was promoted to Regional Manager for the Southeast United States. During his tenure, he secured the Basic Skills First computer contract from the State of Tennessee, outfitting every 8th grade classroom in Tennessee with Macintosh computers.
In 1985, Mahaffey was promoted to Director of Apple's Education Group and relocated to Cupertino, California. For three years, he managed a sales model focusing on K-12 schools and universities, and turned Apple Education into a billion-dollar business unit. His team created school computer lab bundles, ensured compliance with state contracts, and helped secure low-interest loans so teachers could purchase computers. They also retailed directly to students through university campus bookstores. These factors helped make the Apple Macintosh a dominant player in the education market, allowing it to go head to head with its main competitor, IBM. In 1988, he was awarded Apple's Higher Education Impact Award.
In 1988 he was asked to lead Apple's Federal Systems Group in Washington, D.C., to carve out a market in the U.S. Department of Defense, that would include civilian and intelligence agencies. From 1988 to 1990, he worked with agencies that had the flexibility to purchase non-standard and non-contract computer systems, and built a systems integration team that allowed these agencies to move away from the predominant MS-DOS solutions.
Subsequent career
In 1990, Mahaffey left Apple to pursue technology consulting endeavors in Washington, D.C. He also served as Board Director and chief executive officer of Start, Inc., from 1990 to 1994, and on the board of directors at First Patriot Bancshares, FDIC from 1989 to 1994.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Display%20Corporation | Video Display Corp. is a Tucker, Georgia manufacturer of digital projector display units, and a manufacturer and distributor of cathode ray tubes used in data display screens.
History
Video Display was founded in 1975 by Ronald Ordway, who has remained chairman and CEO since that time. He is also the company's largest single shareholder.
Products and Markets
Video Display's largest business segment involves designing and manufacturing digital projector display units for defense contractors, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin, for use in flight simulation and training. Video Display also makes the display units for the industrial and medical industry sectors. Its digital projector display unit operations are located at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Video Display also manufactures and distributes cathode ray tubes for video display terminals. Its AYON Cyber Security subsidiary, located in Palm Bay, Florida manufactures video displays for the defense industry, security and monitoring industry and other sectors.
References
External links
Video Display Corp. website
Companies based in Tucker, Georgia
Defense companies of the United States
Electronics companies established in 1975
Display technology companies
Electronics companies of the United States
1975 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular%20Computing | Popular Computing was a monthly computer magazine published from 1981 to 1985 by McGraw-Hill, Inc. Popular Computing was the successor to McGraw-Hill's quarterly journal onComputing. It focused on covering general interest personal computing topics in an accessible manner.
Overview
Popular Computing'''s predecessor onComputing ran for ten issues from 1979 to 1981 and marketed itself as a "guide to personal computing." The magazine rebranded as Popular Computing and switched to a new staff and monthly schedule to fully cover the rapidly expanding and increasingly popular field of personal computing. Popular Computing aimed to "demythologize" personal computing with accessible coverage on consumer advice, news, gaming, historical essays, and contemporary developments.
McGraw-Hill positioned Popular Computing as an accessible, non-technical magazine for a general interest readership, alongside Byte, its specialized magazine for more technically-inclined readers.
Circulation
In 1983, Popular Computing was the world's second-highest circulation computer magazine behind Computers & Electronics, with a paid circulation of 460,000. In 1984, 89% of Popular Computing subscribers were male, and the magazine published an article in its September 1984 edition about the gender disparity in computing. In October 1984, the National Library Service for the Blind and Handicapped began distributing a braille edition of Popular Computing. At the time of its closure in December 1985, Popular Computing was one of the four largest personal computer magazines, with a circulation of about 250,000 to 270,000.
Writers
Notable contributing writers to Popular Computing included:
Isaac Asimov
Richard Benyo
Pete Carey
Chris Crawford
Richard Dalton
Thom Hartmann
Steven Levy
Peter McWilliams
Dale Peterson
Jerry Pournelle
Randall Rothenberg
Robert Swirsky
David Weinberger
George Zebrowski
McWilliams stopped writing for the magazine due to a disagreement with its editorial stance, which he felt homogenized articles into inoffensive, monotone prose.
Closure
McGraw-Hill ceased publication of the magazine after the December 1985 issue, stating that its "resources would be better applied to other areas in the microcomputer field which have better prospects for growth." In its final months, Popular Computing attempted to shift its focus from general interest readers towards business users. McGraw-Hill failed to find a buyer for the magazine and its advertising "fell 29% during the first half of 1985." Popular Computing had been operating at a loss for two years with no reversal expected, and McGraw-Hill decided to end the magazine just before the December 1985 issue went to press. According to a McGraw-Hill public relations director, Popular Computing struggled because it was competing with too many general interest computer magazines. As the computer industry matured, advertisers became more sophisticated about targeting markets and broadened their focus to tele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFXF-LD | KFXF-LD, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 22), is a low-power primary MeTV and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Owned by Atlanta-based Gray Television, it is a sister station to NBC affiliate KTVF (channel 11) and Class A CBS affiliate KXDF-CD (channel 13). The three stations share studios on Braddock Street in downtown Fairbanks, where KFXF-LD's transmitter is also located.
History
KFXF intellectual unit
The KFXF-LD intellectual unit originated on April 20, 1992, when Tanana Valley Television Company signed on K07UU as the area's first commercial station (and fifth in general after KJNP-TV in 1981) since 1955, when KTVF and KATN started. The station upgraded to a full-power license and changed its call letters to KFXF on February 27, 1995.
From its inception, the station was primarily affiliated with Fox. In its early years, K07UU/KFXF ran programming from Canadian music channel MuchMusic during the overnight hours, and for a time in 1993–94 carried the NBA on NBC. Until K13XD (now KXDF-CD) went on the air in August 1996, KFXF also carried some CBS shows. The station also ran UPN programs from 2000 to 2006, when that network merged with The WB to form The CW, which is shown on a digital subchannel of KATN.
After Gray Television's purchase of KTVF, KXDF-CD, and the non-license assets of KFXF on January 13, 2017, all of KFXF's programming was moved to KFXF-LD, which had previously served as a translator of KFXF. The full-power station's license (which was not included in the sale because the market has only five full-power stations, too few to create a duopoly) changed its call letters to KFYF on February 9, 2017 and was subsequently cancelled on March 10.
License
On March 14, 1995, the Federal Communications Commission granted a construction permit for a new low-powered station in Fairbanks, which received the K22EY call letters. The station signed on 1996.
In 2000, several low-powered stations owned by Goldbelt, Inc. (including K22EY) were sold to ACS Television, L.L.C. ACS Television, a subsidiary of Alaska Communications System, operated its stations as a wireless cable system; ACS put the subsidiary up for sale in 2002 due to financial losses and the costs of converting the stations to digital television. On April 23, 2003, Tanana Valley Television Company acquired 10 stations (including K22EY) from ACS Television. In 2010, the station flash-cut from analog to digital, modifying its call sign to K22EY-D.
The call letters were changed to KFXF-LD on November 4, 2016. On November 8, 2016, Northern Lights Media, the subsidiary of Gray Television that operates Anchorage stations KTUU-TV and KYES-TV, announced that it would buy KTVF, KFXF-LD and KXDF-CD (then known as KXDD-CD) for $8 million in cash. The sale was completed on January 13, 2017.
Fox announced on October 30, 2017 that it would move its Fairbanks affiliation from KFXF-LD to a subchannel of KATN on November |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton%20Freeman | Linton Clarke Freeman (1927 – August 17, 2018) was an American structuralist sociologist known for his pioneering work in social networks. He was an emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Freeman developed the first measure of betweenness centrality. He was the founding editor of the journal Social Networks which began publishing in 1979.
Freeman died on August 17, 2018, at the age of 91.
Book
Freeman, Linton C. 2004. The Development of Social Network Analysis: A Study in the Sociology of Science. Vancouver: Empirical Press.
References
External links
Linton C Freeman - Google Scholar Citations
1927 births
2018 deaths
People from Chicago
American sociologists
University of California, Irvine faculty
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty
Northwestern University alumni
Roosevelt University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Smith | Milton Smith is an American computer security application developer, researcher, and writer. Smith is best known for his role leading Java platform security at Oracle during a period of high-profile security incidents in the fall of 2012. Due to the climate around Java security, in 2013 Smith was invited to present by Black Hat leadership in a closed session under Non-Disclosure Agreement to top industry leaders. In the same year Smith established the first ever full security track at a software developers conference, JavaOne, Oracle's premier conference for Java software developers in San Francisco, California(USA).
Organizations
Oracle
Smith continues as a principal security analyst at Oracle working strategically across company business units. Smith is an active collaborator in industry developing open source security tools for researchers as well as participating in security conference events and organizing them. During this period Smith was Chief Technical Editor on an application security book project with colleges.
Yahoo
Prior to Oracle around June 2011, Smith was leading security for the User Data Analytics(UDA) business unit at Yahoo and developed innovative security controls to secure Yahoo's click stream revenues. Smith also lead Yahoo's Enterprise Security Triage Program for monitoring enterprise vulnerabilities and tracking remediation activities.
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
OWASP is one of the largest non-profit organizations of security practitioners in the world. On March 12, 2015 Smith developed DeepViolet a TLS/SSL scanning API researchers use to extend TLS/SSL scanning to their own projects. Today DeepViolet is an OWASP Incubator project. Smith is also a leader on the OWASP Security Logging API Project, an open source project extending important security features to applications that use popular logging platforms like log4j and logback.
Citations, publications, and articles
External links
Security Blog, securitycurmudgeon.com
Living people
American technology writers
People in information technology
People associated with computer security
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgie%20%28desktop%20environment%29 | Budgie is an independent, free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that targets the desktop metaphor. Budgie is developed by the Buddies of Budgie organization, which is composed of a team of contributors from Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux. Its design emphasizes simplicity, minimalism, and elegance, while providing the means to extend or customize the desktop in various ways. Unlike desktop environments like Cinnamon, Budgie does not have a reference platform, and all distributions that ship Budgie are recommended to set defaults that best fit their desired user experience.
History
Budgie was created by Ikey Doherty as the default desktop environment for his new Linux distribution, EvolveOS, which was eventually renamed to Solus. The intention was to use GNOME components to create a more lightweight and traditional desktop that still had most of the features that GNOME provided at the time. Development was announced on , with the first public version being released soon after on .
Budgie would see a flurry of releases in 2015, culminating in version 10 being released in December of that year, a full rewrite of the codebase in the Vala programming language. The desktop would soon spread to distributions other than Solus, with SparkyLinux and Manjaro adopting the desktop environment in 2015. Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and Void Linux would follow in 2016, with a dedicated "remix" edition for Ubuntu being created, eventually renamed to Ubuntu Budgie when it was adopted by Canonical as an official flavor.
Doherty would make his last commit to the repository on . Later, on , it was announced that Doherty had ceased communication with the rest of the Solus team for unknown reasons, leaving Solus (and thus Budgie) without a lead developer. Joshua Strobl, one of the members of the newly formed Solus core team and an already active contributor to Budgie, would take up the responsibility of continuing Budgie's development after Doherty's departure.
On , Strobl resigned from Solus and established Buddies of Budgie, a new organization for Budgie development, with other active contributors. Under this new organization, Budgie development shifted from being focused on Solus to being focused on improving the experience across all distributions that ship Budgie. The first release under this new organization was v10.6, released on .
The desktop would see incremental releases in 2022. During this time, contributors to the project that had ceased involvement with Solus began contributing to other Linux distributions. Notably, Joshua Strobl began contributing to Fedora Linux, leading to the inclusion of Budgie in the Fedora repositories and the approval of a Fedora Budgie "spin" to be released with Fedora 38.
2023 would see the release of v10.7, the second major release under Buddies of Budgie, and inclusion of the Budgie package set into both FreeBSD - the first BSD derivative to ship th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schijnpoort%20%28Antwerp%20premetro%20station%29 | Schijnpoort is an underground station in the Antwerp premetro network. The station was named after the Schijnpoort gate, part of the Brialmont fortifications, which was demolished in 1970 when constructing the R1 ring road. It was opened in 1996 as part of the northern premetro axis and was originally only served by tram route 3. Currently, it is also serviced by tram route 5 (since 2006), tram route 6 (since 2007) and tram route 2 (since 2012).
Lay-out
The design of the station is characterized by the presence of large colored arrows used as signpost and the circular windows separating the escalators from the platforms.
The -1 level of the station contains an entrance hall which contains ticket offices and has exits on both sides of the Schijnpoortweg. On the -2 level lies the platform toward Handel station, used by trams going toward the city centre. The -3 level contains the northbound platform toward Sport station, serviced by trams going toward Merksem, Luchtbal and Deurne.
Just south of the station also lies the unused premetro tunnel under the Pothoekstraat and Kerkstraat, which now links the northern and eastern premetro tunnels. The tunnel was built in the 1970s and was to be used by tram route 3, but has, as of 2016, not yet been finished due to budgetary issues that arose during construction. It contains the also unfinished premetro stations Stuivenberg and Sint-Willibrordus.
Location
Schijnpoort station is situated directly underneath the Schijnpoortweg, between the R10 "Singel" ring road, and railway line 12. In its vicinity lie the cargo station Antwerpen-Schijnpoort, the Spoor Noord park and the Schijnpoort sewage treatment facility. Since 2015, the Sinksenfoor, Antwerp's largest funfair, is annually held on the Spoor Oost terrain near the station. The fair takes six weeks in the months May and July, and had to move to the terrain from its previous standing place at the Zuiderdokken after complaints from local inhabitants led to a preliminary injunction forcing the organizers to find a different location.
References
External links
www.delijn.be, the operator of all public city transport in Antwerp and Flanders.
Antwerp Premetro
Railway stations opened in 1996
1996 establishments in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Giannone | John Giannone is a sportscaster for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. He has worked for MSG Networks since 2002, mainly as a rinkside reporter and studio host. He has also done play-by-play, occasionally filling in for Sam Rosen.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MSG Network people
American sports journalists
New York Rangers announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20and%20the%20Secret%20of%20Avalor | Elena and the Secret of Avalor is an American prime time computer-animated musical children's fantasy television movie crossover between Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor and the backdoor pilot of the latter series. Jamie Mitchell served as director, Craig Gerber served as screenplay writer, and both served as executive producers.
It premiered on November 20, 2016, on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. The movie received a nomination at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program.
Synopsis
In Avalor, Crown Princess Elena presents the witch Shuriki's broken wand to her friend Naomi. She tells her how Princess Sofia saved her and the kingdom.
While attending school in Enchantia, Sofia sees a vision of Shuriki murdering Elena's parents, King Raul and Queen Lucia, when her amulet summons her to the castle's secret library. A book in the library turns into the wizard Alacazar, who explains how Elena originally possessed Sofia's amulet. The amulet was given to Elena on her 15th birthday and it saved her life by pulling her inside when Shuriki attacked her after murdering her parents. Alacazar, who was the royal Wizard of Avalor at the time, searched for 41 years for a special Princess who could help him free Elena, eventually turning himself into a book in the Enchantian Castle library and placing the amulet in the castle to wait for the right Princess. Sofia agrees to help him and convinces her family to spend their summer vacation in Avalor and to make a trade agreement there too.
Upon arrival, Sofia is horrified to learn they will meet Shuriki as a formality and notices the cheering crowds are unhappy. Winged jaguars known as jaquins disrupt the welcome feast and agree to help Sofia after she explains her mission. They take her to Alacazar's old house to meet his wizard grandson Mateo. He summons Alacazar's spirit guide Zuzo, who tells Sofia to get Shuriki's wand, which she swipes during a dance. Warning her siblings to hide, Sofia meets Mateo and the jaquins at the Maruvian temple. She magically transforms into a mermaid and places her amulet and Shuriki's wand on an underwater statue, releasing Elena from the amulet. Against the group's objections, Elena insists on confronting Shuriki alone with the witch's wand.
At the palace, Elena confronts Shuriki in the throne room, revealing how Shuriki usurped the throne to Sofia's family. Elena tries to blast Shuriki with her wand, but due to a guard’s interference, the spell ricochets and blasts a tapestry that reveals an enchanted painting of Elena's maternal grandparents Francisco and Luisa and her little sister Isabel. Shuriki reveals that Alcazar placed Elena's sister and grandparents inside the painting to save them and it is immune to her magic. She also explains that her Chancellor Esteban is Elena's cousin. Skylar, one of the Jaquins, rescues Elena while Shuriki throws Sofia's family into the dungeon. After regrouping at Alacazar's house, Sofia, Elena, and Mateo sneak bac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Tienwen%20Chien | Robert Tienwen Chien (November 20, 1931 – December 8, 1983) was an American computer scientist concerned largely with research in information theory, fault-tolerance, and artificial intelligence (AI), director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and known for his invention of the Chien search and seminal contributions to the PMC model in system level fault diagnosis.
Biography
Robert Tienwen Chien was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China as the youngest of eight children, and emigrated to the United States in 1952 to continue his technical studies, enrolling at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1954, and continued graduate studies at Illinois, receiving his A.M in Mathematics in 1957, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1958.
He worked as a research scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York, then the world's leading site for computing research, where he rose to the position of Group Manager. While at IBM, he also taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and authored several books on coding theory. In 1964, he left IBM to join the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as an associate professor in electrical engineering, rising to the rank of full professor in 1966. In 1969, he served as the E. A. Guillemin Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, and in 1972, he served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed the director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at Illinois in 1973, a role he held until his death in 1983.
In recognition of his contributions to the University of Illinois and his research, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Illinois annually presents the Robert T. Chien Memorial Award for demonstrated research excellence to a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering
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In addition, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Illinois also invites extraordinary researchers to give the Robert T. Chien Distinguished Lecture
each year. This series has included several Nobel Laureates, and over a dozen members of the National Academies. Notably, while CSL director, he created an Outstanding Staff Award, the first such recognition of this type at the University of Illinois. In appreciation that award also bears his name as the Robert T. Chien Staff Appreciation Award, and is awarded each year to an outstanding staff member selected by the staff.
Contributions in Computer Science
Chien is best known for two seminal contributions, the Chien Search, a fast algorithm for determining the roots of a polynomial over a finite field and a model system-level fault diagnosis, known today as the PMC (Preparata-Metze-Chien) model, which is a main issue in the design of highly dependable processing systems. This model is still the object of intense |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winx%20Club%3A%20The%20Mystery%20of%20the%20Abyss | Winx Club: The Mystery of the Abyss (Italian: Winx Club - Il mistero degli abissi) is a 2014 Italian computer-animated film based on the television series Winx Club. It is the third film based on the show, following 2007's The Secret of the Lost Kingdom and 2010's Magical Adventure. It was directed and produced by series creator Iginio Straffi, who also co-wrote the film with Giovanni Masi.
After the release of the first Winx Club movie, Iginio Straffi stated that Rainbow was "counting on" making second and third Winx films. In 2010, it was announced that Viacom (the eventual co-owner of Rainbow and owner of Nickelodeon) would provide the resources necessary to produce the film. The Mystery of the Abyss was animated using Autodesk Maya and other programs over a period of two years.
The film takes place after the fifth season of the animated series. It follows the Winx fairies as they work to bring balance back to the Infinite Ocean after the Trix, a trio of witches, team up with a nymph named Politea to find a pearl and destroy the source of the fairies' power. The film's release was timed to coincide with the series' tenth anniversary. The film was first released by 01 Distribution in Italy on 4 September 2014. It was shown in theaters across Europe, while most international releases were televised or direct-to-video.
Plot
The Trix witches return to the Infinite Ocean following Tritannus’s defeat in an attempt to harness the power of the Emperor's Throne, their leader Icy failing before they are overpowered by the cursed nymph Politea. Politea reveals that after Darcy and Stormy stole her power while destroying her cursed physical form, Politea used mankind’s pollution to revive herself as a spirit affixed to the Emperor’s Throne. Politea also informs the Trix that the throne will only empower the true emperor, Tritannus, who is the only one who can retrieve the Pearl of the Deep, which allows one to control all the oceans in existence. The witches make a deal with Politea to retrieve the Pearl once they release Tritannus from his prison in the Realm of Oblivion, which is only possible with a ritual that uses a young princess’s life force.
The Trix travel to Gardenia to attack Bloom while she is on a date with her fiancé, Prince Sky. The two manage to hide, but the Trix capture Bloom's pet rabbit, Kiko. The Trix render Bloom unconscious after she tries to rescue Kiko. The Trix bring Bloom to the Infinite Ocean and tie her to the Emperor's Throne. The Trix and Politea perform the ritual to summon an unconscious Tritannus, the latter instructing the witches not to reveal her involvement while they guide Tritannus along until he served his purpose. After Tritannus regains consciousness and Icy jogs his memory, he learns of the Pearl and explains that its whereabouts are known to a powerful nymph named Omnia. Tritannus and the Trix head towards Omnia's cave to force the nymph to reveal where she hid the Pearl of the Deep.
At Alfea College, Bloo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTX%20%28TV%20channel%29 | DTX (previously known as Discovery Turbo Xtra) is a television channel focused on programming about cars owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA. It is a CEEMEA version of Discovery Turbo.
The channel was launched under the name Discovery Turbo Xtra to replace the European version of Discovery World, with the first launch in Poland on 17 September 2013. The channel roll-out in 2015 in Albania and in 2016 in Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Baltics, Russia, CIS, Ukraine, Turkey and MENA. In the Middle East, it was launched on 1 April 2016 on beIN Network.
In November 2016 Discovery Turbo Xtra has been rebranded as DTX.
On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed DTX in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA has announced that DTX, along with Discovery Science, will cease broadcasting on 1 January 2024.
Current Programming
American Chopper
American Hot Rod
Biker Build-Off
How It's Made
Car Masters: Rust to Riches
Cash Cab
Chasing Classic Cars
Dallas Car Sharks
The Devils Ride
Diesel Brothers
Dirty Mudder Truckers
Eat. Race. Win.
Fast N' Loud
Fastest Car
Fifth Gear
Formula 1: Drive to Survive
The Grand Tour
Graveyard Carz
How It's Made: Dream Cars
Ice Road Truckers
Inside West Coast Customs
Le Mans: Racing is Everything
Misfit Garage
Nitro Circus
Overhaulin'
Kindig Customs
Pimp My Ride
Street Outlaws
Top Gear
Trick My Truck
Vegas Rat Rods
Wheeler Dealers
World of Outlaws Sprint Cars
World Rally Championship
Upcoming Programming
Bitchin' Rides
Hyperdrive
Former Programming
America's Worst Driver
American Muscle Car
American Trucker
Auto Trader
Bangla Bangers
Britain's Worst Driver
Bullrun
Canada's Worst Driver
Classic Car Rescue
Desert Car Kings
Dream Car Garage
Driving Me Crazy
Extreme Machines
The Garage
Harley and the Davidsons
Iditarod: Toughest Race on Earth
Knight Rider
Lords of the Car Hoards
Monster Garage
NASCAR Angels
NASCAR Racers
One Car Too Far
Operation Repo
Pinks
Some Assembly Required
Street Customs
Texas Car Wars
Turbo Fast
Unique Whips
References
Television channels and stations established in 2013
Television channels in North Macedonia
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ei%C5%BEens | Eižens is a Latvian masculine given name. The associated name day is November 13.
Notable people named Eižens
Eižens Ārinš (1911–1987), Latvian mathematician and computer scientist
Eižens Finks (1885–1958), Latvian photographer and clairvoyant
Eižens Laube (1880–1967), Latvian architect
References
Latvian masculine given names
Masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Z2 | Samsung Z2 is a smartphone produced by Samsung. It is the third smartphone to be shipped with the Tizen operating system, after the Samsung Z1 and Samsung Z3. The Z2 was the first 4G smartphone powered by Tizen and was released on August 29, 2016.
In India, the Samsung Z2 was available with a Reliance Jio 4G preview offer, which provided unlimited calls, messages, and data for the first three months.
Its successor, the Samsung Z4, was released in May 2017.
Specifications
The Samsung Z2 is powered by a Spreadtrum SC9830 SoC including a quad-core 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and 1 GB RAM. The 8 GB internal storage can be upgraded up to 128 GB via microSD card.
It features a 4.0-inch TFT display. The rear camera has 5 megapixels with LED flash and f/2.2 aperture; the front camera has 0.3 megapixels with f/2.4 aperture.
References
External links
Samsung Z2 Official Firmware
Samsung mobile phones
Tizen-based devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2016
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Danganronpa%20VR%3A%20The%20Class%20Trial | is a free-to-play virtual reality tech demo in the Danganronpa series, developed and published by Spike Chunsoft for the PlayStation 4 for use with the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset. It was produced by Yoshinori Terasawa at Spike Chunsoft, who was inspired to create the game after playing Bandai Namco Entertainment's Summer Lesson.
The game was released in Japan on October 13, 2016, and worldwide in March 2017. The game is a tech demo where the player aims to uncover who was behind a murder in a "class trial" from the first game in the series, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. It was well received by critics, who enjoyed its visuals.
Gameplay
Cyber Danganronpa VR is a virtual reality tech demo in which the player plays through the fourth "class trial" from the adventure game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, where the player aims to uncover who was behind the murder of Sakura Ogami; unlike the original game, which uses 2D cutouts for characters, Cyber Danganronpa VR uses 3D models. The player character's classmates give testimonies, which appear as words; if the player notices something in the testimony that seems suspicious, they can refute the words by shooting them with "truth bullets". To do this, the player needs to turn their head toward the character who testified, and press a button on the DualShock 4 controller. The game takes around ten minutes to play through, and ends with a first-person sequence where the character Monokuma executes the player.
Development and release
Cyber Danganronpa VR was announced and shown at the Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong fair in July 2015 by Sony Interactive Entertainment, as a tech demo for their virtual reality headset PlayStation VR. The tech demo was developed by Spike Chunsoft, and was their first PlayStation 4 project. According to producer Yoshinori Terasawa, he was inspired to create the game by Bandai Namco Entertainment's PlayStation VR title Summer Lesson. The reason for making a game based on Trigger Happy Havoc rather than the spin-off shooting game Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls was that other companies could create virtual reality shooting games, and that the developers wanted to create something that only they could make. Terasawa decided to make the punishment sequence play out from a first-person perspective to make the player feel horror, but also included Monokuma to lighten the mood. To be able to complete the tech demo quickly, the developers made use of the game engine Unreal Engine 4.
The tech demo was released digitally for the PlayStation 4 on October 13, 2016 in Japan and Hong Kong; it was made available freely for PlayStation Plus subscribers, with no release announced for players without a subscription. The Hong Kong release was made available in English, with English voice overs; Spike Chunsoft announced in October 2016 that they were working towards releasing that version in the West. It was released in North America on March 7, 2017, and in E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introverted%20Boss | Introverted Boss () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Yeon Woo-jin and Park Hye-su. It aired on cable network tvN every Monday and Tuesday at 23:00 (KST) from January 16 to March 14, 2017.
Synopsis
Eun Hwan-ki (Yeon Woo-jin) is the CEO of a public relations company, but he is extremely shy. Due to his personality his employees do not know him well.
Chae Ro Woon (Park Hye-soo) starts working in the company of Eun Hwan-ki. She is very energetic and receives recognition for her good work, however she is interested in CEO Eun Hwan-ki and plans to reveal who he really is.
Cast
Main
Yeon Woo-jin as Eun Hwan-ki
Park Ha-joon as young Eun Hwan-ki
The "Silent Monster" CEO of Brain public relations firm. He appears to be cold and prickly, but is actually extremely shy and sensitive, and avoids people as much as possible by hiding out in his penthouse office or by covering himself in black and wearing a hood.
Park Hye-su as Chae Ro-woon
An outgoing rookie employee who, despite her extroverted nature and excellent communication skills, is silent and lethargic introvert at home. She aims to take revenge on her boss for the death of her sister.
Yoon Park as Kang Woo-il
Lee Tae-woo as young Kang Woo-il
The warm, confident but sensitive co-CEO of Brain public relations firm and Hwan-ki's best friend. Also the fiancé of Eun Yi-soo.
Gong Seung-yeon as Eun Yi-soo
Seo Eun-sol as young Eun Yi-soo
Hwan-ki's sister, a chaebol heiress with an introverted personality. She has a mental illness initially instigated by her father's prolonged verbal and emotional abuse of her brother.
People in Silent Monster
Ye Ji-won as Dang Yoo-hee, a working mother
Jun Hyo-seong as Kim Gyo-ri, an employee who has crush on Se-jong
Heo Jung-min as Eom Sun-bong
Han Jae-suk as Jang Se-jong, a new employee
People in Brain PR
Stephanie as Director Park
Jung Yi-yun as Assistant Jung
Woo-il's fan club and the elite of Brand Promotions AE
Hwang So-hee as Assistant Lee
Woo-il's fan club and the elite of Brand Promotions AE
Others
Kim Eung-soo as Eun Bok-dong, Hwan-ki's father
Kim Ye-ryeong as Park Ae-ran, Hwan-ki's mother
Lee Han-wi as Chae Won-sang, Ro-woon's father
Kim Mi-kyung as Ro-woon's mother
Han Chae-ah as Chae Ji-hye, Ro-woon's older sister and Kang Woo-il's lover
Lee Kyu-han as Woo Gi-ja, Ro-woon's neighborhood brother and a reporter
Jang Hee-jin as Seo Yeon-jung, Hwan-ki's first love
Special appearances
Kim Junsu as Top Star (Ep. 1)
Choi Byung-mo as a presenter
Kim Ki-doo as a man in the restroom 1 (Ep. 2) / Chinese restaurant food-delivery
Jo Hyun-shik as a man in the restroom 2
Choi Joon-ho as a man in the restroom 3
Song Yung-jae as Won-sang's friend
Woo Hyun as Won-sang's friend
Seo Byung-sook as White Cloud Nursery School Director
Yoo Gun-woo as Secretary Kwak, Won-sang's secretary
Choi Eun-ho as Il-ho
Seo In-sung as Lee-ho
Lee Han-na as Si-yun
Geum Kwang-san as a people in sauna
Ji Dae-han as an advertiser for the Opera
Kim Hye-eun as Hwan-ki's psychi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Evangelical%20Network | The Evangelical Network (TEN) is an association of Christian and Evangelical ministries that are a part of and are affirming to the LGBTQ community and their relationships. The TEN website describes its focus in a mission statement including the following goals:
To provide a safe place for LGBTQ Christians.
To bring people of a shared faith experience to worship together in an annual conference.
To be a voice in media and public discussion supporting LGBTQ struggles for equality.
The Evangelical Network is not a denomination (as explained on their FAQ page), and includes in its statement of beliefs that "a person can be Christian and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or straight."
History of TEN
The Evangelical Network (TEN) was founded in 1988 by Rev. Fred L. Pattison, pastor of Casa de Cristo Evangelical Church in Phoenix, Arizona. At that time, Casa de Cristo was a Metropolitan Community Church (UFMCC). Pattison's original vision was to network within MCC to find other Evangelical Christians in the denomination. However, when Casa de Cristo's board and congregation voted to leave MCC in 1988, the focus of TEN changed to reaching out to and helping start independent Evangelical churches with predominantly gay and lesbian congregations.
When Pattison retired from his pastorate as well as the presidency of TEN, he recommended to the board of TEN that his successor be Todd Ferrell of Freedom in Christ Church in San Francisco where Ferrell was serving as a church elder. Ferrell served as president of TEN for nearly four years and was succeeded by Pattison's pastor-successor, Ronnie Pigg. In 2004, TEN's church affiliates voted in a new board with Todd Ferrell returning as president. He led the organization until 2017 when David Thomas, pastor of Abundant Grace Church in Granite Falls, North Carolina, was chosen as TEN president.
For several years, TEN's annual conferences were held in March at Casa de Cristo in Phoenix. An "international" conference was later begun and held in Vancouver, British Columbia over Labor Day weekend in September. Eventually, it was decided by members and the board that in order to reach more members nationwide, one annual conference would be held at different cities around the United States with various churches across the nation acting as host.
In addition to many years of conferences/gatherings, TEN has also been active in social justice issues including:
The Worlds AIDS Conference at Saddleback Church
An invitation to the United Nations to address homophobia in Uganda
Meeting with the US Secretary of Labor concerning workplace safety for the LGBT community
Support of same sex marriage and adoption
Campaigns against legislation that would permit businesses to discriminate against LGBT customers
Theology
The TEN Statement of Faith is similar in content to many mainstream Christian organizations. The organization's Statement of Faith states that they believe:
The Bible to be the inspired, the only infa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Araby%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Al Araby () is a general television network launched in January 2015. It broadcasts a variety of programs and news shows in Arabic, covering society, politics, entertainment and culture. The network has bureaus in several Arab and Western capitals, through 11 bureaus in the Middle East and worldwide. The channel was planned as a counterweight to Al Jazeera, which was viewed by some as having a pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias.
Formerly based in London, Al Araby announced it would move its headquarters to Qatar in 2021. The move was heavily advertised on social media in the weeks leading up to the eventual shift of operations to Lusail planned city on 30 August 2022.
Mission statement
The network says in its mission statement that it aims to "fulfil the Arab citizen's desire for content that engages them and capture the way they perceive themselves, their world and the future". Al Araby TV is considered a platform for the Arab youth, and it aspires to be the voice of its young Arab viewers.
Al Araby TV is part of the Qatar-based Fadaat Media network, of which The New Arab is also a member.
Al Araby aims to impact on Arab citizens, their views of themselves, the world and the future, and seeks to be the voice of Arab viewers everywhere.
Organisation and staff
Al Araby TV is already one of the largest TV networks in the region, TV production facilities in London - and has been built to compete with the Arab world's largest and most popular broadcasters. It is estimated that Alaraby TV is home to more than 400 media staff.
Notable programs
Remix series
In 2016, Hamza Namira launched the TV series Remix (in ) on Al Araby TV. The popular series filmed in a number of countries featured the relevance of the songs chosen from the various folkloric repertoire of a number of Arab countries, and the process through Namira's collaborations with a number of artists and musical groups in remixing. Each 30-minute episode would end with a special collaborative performance of the songs by Namira and an accompanying musical band or vocalists in a contemporary fashion. With the immense popularity of the initial 12-episode series, a new series was announced on the same channel that aired in 2017 and a further third series in 2018.
Tarab with Marwan Khoury
Tarab with Marwan Khoury (in ) airs every Friday on Al Araby, where the host Marwan Khoury, Lebanese singer, writer, composer and music arranger, aims through this show to acquaint the young viewers of the channel with the Arab classics, and hosts in his show popular singers to relive the golden age of Arabic music.
Joe Show
Joe Show (in ) is a popular talk show and political satire television program hosted by Egyptian comedian Youssef Hussien and it airs each Thursday on Al Araby TV. The show mainly tackles events and news from the Arab world in a comic and cynical manner. The television program sheds light on the media biases in the Arab world, and striking paradoxes in the rhetoric of politicians and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Ink | Windows Ink is a software suite in Windows 10 that contains applications and features oriented towards pen computing, and was introduced in Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
The suite includes Sticky Notes, Sketchpad, and Screen sketch applications. On a Tablet PC that supports pen input, the Windows Ink Workspace icon in the taskbar is enabled by default, otherwise, it can be enabled manually by the user.
Applications
The Windows Ink Workspace menu contains links to (from top to bottom):
Sticky Notes
Sketchpad
Screen sketch
Recently used (applications)
Suggested (applications available on Windows Store)
Sketchpad
Described as being "a simple blank canvas where you can quickly and easily draw an idea, doodle, create, and solve problems", it is a place where the user can sketch out whatever comes to their mind without launching a full blown drawing program such as SketchBook or Clip Studio Paint. It includes a small subset of features from full-blown drawing programs, such as a digital ruler, and pen options. When it is first run, it loads an image of an unfinished landscape. Own sketches can be saved as images. However, it is not possible to open and re-load a previously saved sketch.
Snip & Sketch (Screen sketch)
When the user opens the Windows Ink Workspace menu, a screenshot is taken of the screen and shown as the preview for the "Snip & Sketch" item in the menu. When the user taps it, they can draw over that screenshot using the same controls from the aforementioned Sketchpad. This feature is similar to the "Screen write" feature of Samsung Galaxy Note devices.
References
External links
Annotated Bibliography of References to Gestures, Touchscreens, and Tablets (cites references to other electronic-ink annotation and editing systems)
Windows 10
Windows components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler%20Menezes | Tyler Menezes is a Canadian–American computer programmer and businessperson. He co-founded several startups, and is currently executive director of the nonprofit organization CodeDay.
Life and career
Early life and education
Menezes was born in Toronto, Ontario, and moved to Spokane, Washington, when he was young. He has stated that his interest in technology started during a period of long social isolation while living in Spokane and being uninterested in sports like the rest of his classmates. He was introduced to computer programming after moving to Redmond, Washington, when he stumbled on a book offering to teach the creation of a slot machine in Visual Basic. Menezes has said his later interest in STEM education was a result of realizing his luck in finding that book at that particular time.
In high school, Menezes participated in a video game programming competition organized by Microsoft, which would later serve as the inspiration for the CodeDay program.
Menezes worked on CAPTCHA research in Microsoft Research's Machine Learning and Applied Statistics department while attending the University of Washington.
Career
In early 2012, he dropped out of university to create a startup focused on live video streaming, and in mid-2012 he moved to East Palo Alto, California to attend Y Combinator for it. In 2013 the startup switched its focus to providing live video infrastructure as a service.
During his time in the technology sector, Menezes was volunteering at CodeDay (then StudentRND), a not-for-profit headed by Edward Jiang which operated a 3,500 sq.ft. makerspace in Bellevue, Washington. As a volunteer he helped start the CodeDay event. In 2013 he left the startup to join CodeDay and in 2014 became the executive director of CodeDay. Speaking to Forbes about this career change, he stated "There was this huge inequity in Silicon Valley. People were working on big problems but they weren’t necessarily serving a lot of the U.S. population who come from marginalized, lower-income backgrounds.". He was profiled during this period in the book Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters.
Menezes also has a reputation for encouraging fun in education. He has become known for eating KitKat candy bars without splitting them into pieces in all his videos and many students have created satirical games as a result.
Additionally, he is a programmer and is the author and maintainer of several open-source projects.
Work in education
Menezes' work in education is focused on educational motivation. He has said that he believes that creativity and excitement are an important part of motivating students to learn which are ignored in school, and believes that by focusing on facts over creativity in STEM disciplines, schools are responsibility inequity in the technology industry.
Menezes has stated he focuses on computing as a useful way to increase equality. In an interview with Tech&Learning Magazine he is quoted as saying of programming " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20collection%20system | Data collection system (DCS) is a computer application that facilitates the process of data collection, allowing specific, structured information to be gathered in a systematic fashion, subsequently enabling data analysis to be performed on the information. Typically a DCS displays a form that accepts data input from a user and then validates that input prior to committing the data to persistent storage such as a database.
Many computer systems implement data entry forms, but data collection systems tend to be more complex, with possibly many related forms containing detailed user input fields, data validations, and navigation links among the forms.
DCSs can be considered a specialized form of content management system (CMS), particularly when they allow the information being gathered to be published, edited, modified, deleted, and maintained. Some general-purpose CMSs include features of DCSs.
Importance
Accurate data collection is essential to many business processes, to the enforcement of many government regulations, and to maintaining the integrity of scientific research.
Data collection systems are an end-product of software development. Identifying and categorizing software or a software sub-system as having aspects of, or as actually being a "Data collection system" is very important. This categorization allows encyclopedic knowledge to be gathered and applied in the design and implementation of future systems. In software design, it is very important to identify generalizations and patterns and to re-use existing knowledge whenever possible.
Types
Generally the computer software used for data collection falls into one of the following categories of practical application.
Surveys or questionnaires
Data registries
Case management systems
Performance measurement systems
Exams and quizzes
Online forms and form filing and reporting systems
Vocabulary
There is a taxonomic scheme associated with data collection systems, with readily-identifiable synonyms used by different industries and organizations. Cataloging the most commonly used and widely accepted vocabulary improves efficiencies, helps reduce variations, and improves data quality.
The vocabulary of data collection systems stems from the fact that these systems are often a software representation of what would otherwise be a paper data collection form with a complex internal structure of sections and sub-sections. Modeling these structures and relationships in software yields technical terms describing the hierarchy of data containers, along with a set of industry-specific synonyms.
Collection synonyms
A collection (used as a noun) is the topmost container for grouping related documents, data models, and datasets. Typical vocabulary at this level includes the terms:
Data model synonyms
Each document or dataset within a collection is modeled in software. Constructing these models is part of designing or "authoring" the expected data to be collected. The terminology for t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20common%20subgraph | In graph theory and theoretical computer science, a maximum common subgraph may mean either:
Maximum common induced subgraph, a graph that is an induced subgraph of two given graphs and has as many vertices as possible
Maximum common edge subgraph, a graph that is a subgraph of two given graphs and has as many edges as possible |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically%20based%20rendering | Physically based rendering (PBR) is a computer graphics approach that seeks to render images in a way that models the lights and surfaces with optics in the real world. It is often referred to as "Physically Based Lighting" or "Physically Based Shading". Many PBR pipelines aim to achieve photorealism. Feasible and quick approximations of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function and rendering equation are of mathematical importance in this field. Photogrammetry may be used to help discover and encode accurate optical properties of materials. PBR principles may be implemented in real-time applications using Shaders or offline applications using Ray tracing (graphics) or Path tracing.
History
Starting in the 1980s, a number of rendering researchers worked on establishing a solid theoretical basis for rendering, including physical correctness. Much of this work was done at the Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics; a 1997 paper from that lab describes the work done at Cornell in this area to that point.
"Physically Based Shading" was introduced by Yoshiharu Gotanda during the course Physically-Based Shading Models in Film and Game Production at the SIGGRAPH 2010. And followed by the course Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice organised by Stephen Hill and Stephen McAuley between 2012 and 2020.
The phrase "Physically Based Rendering" was more widely popularized by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys, and Pat Hanrahan in their book of the same name from 2004, a seminal work in modern computer graphics that won its authors a Technical Achievement Academy Award for special effects.
Process
PBR is, as Joe Wilson puts it, "more of a concept than a strict set of rules" – but the concept contains several distinctive points of note. One of these is that – unlike many previous models that sought to differentiate surfaces between non-reflective and reflective – PBR recognizes that, in the real world, as John Hable puts it, "everything is shiny". Even "flat" or "matte" surfaces in the real world such as concrete will reflect a small degree of light, and many metals and liquids will reflect a great deal of it. Another thing that PBR models attempt to do is to integrate photogrammetry - measurements from photographs of real-world materials - to study and replicate real physical ranges of values to accurately simulate albedo, gloss, reflectivity, and other physical properties. Finally, PBR puts a great deal of emphasis on microfacets, and will often contain additional textures and mathematical models intended to model small-scale specular highlights and cavities resulting from smoothness or roughness in addition to traditional specular or reflectivity maps.
Surfaces
PBR often utilize Bidirectional scattering distribution functions to calculate the visible light reflected at a given point on surfaces. Common techniques use approximations and simplified models that try to fit approximate models to more accurate data from other more |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrook%20metro%20station | Albrook station is a Panama Metro station which, as of 2023, serves as the southern terminus of Line 1. It was one of the metro network's first 11 stations, opened on 5 April 2014. The station provides access to the city's main bus terminal and Albrook Mall In its first year of operations, Albrook was the third most used station on the network.
Gallery
References
Panama Metro stations
2014 establishments in Panama
Railway stations opened in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20%28TV%20series%29 | Vitamin is a South Korean variety show, which airs on KBS2, KBS's cable and satellite network for comedy and variety shows. The show was hosted by Kim Tae-hoon and Lee Hwi-jae. The show ended its run on March 9, 2017 after 14 years.
Format
The show relies on a variety program format and aims to contribute to the development and improvement of the quality of lives of citizens by providing valuable information along with entertainment. The show discusses recent and relevant topics such as aging prevention, sex, the truth about Adam and Eve, and the birth cycle. Through a trilogy, or even a tetralogy, the program attempts to approach these topics profoundly and systematically, with a new point of view and satisfy viewer's curiosities. There are panels of medical experts and guests who talk about the set topic with the hosts and learn new ways to be healthy.
Former hosts
Timeline
List of episodes
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
See also
References
External links
Television series by SM C&C
Korean-language television shows
2003 South Korean television series debuts
2017 South Korean television series endings
2000s South Korean television series
2010s South Korean television series
Variety shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniCarb-DB | UniCarb-DB is a structural and mass spectrometric database used in glycomics. UniCarb-DB provides over 1000 LC-MS/MS spectra for N- and O-linked glycans released from glycoproteins that were manually annotated. Each entry contains reference to published work, information about structure, GlyToucan Accession Number, MS/MS fragmentation with complete peak lists, biological contexts and experimental metadata. The database was created by a collaboration between University of Gothenburg and Macquarie University and since November 2016 is hosted by Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics. The database is the first to implement the Minimum Information standard MIRAGE (Minimum Information Required About a Glycomics Experiment) for submission of glycomic MS/MS data into the database.
References
External links
UniCarb-DB
Scientific databases
Glycomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture%20Photometry%20Tool | Aperture Photometry Tool (APT) is software with a graphical user interface for computing aperture photometry on astronomical imagery. Image overlays, graphical representations, statistics, models, options and controls for aperture-photometry calculations are brought together into a single package. The software also can be utilized as a FITS-image viewer. APT is executed on desktop and laptop computers, and is free of charge under a license that limits its use to astronomical research and education. The software may be downloaded from its official website, and requires the Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the user's computer.
History
The initial version of APT was released on November 2, 2007. The latest version is APT v. 2.8.4, released on April 22, 2020. The software was developed by Dr. Russ Laher, a member of the professional staff at the Spitzer Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology.
A paper on APT was published in July 2012 in the journal Publications of the Astronomy Society of the Pacific.
A companion paper compares the performance of APT vs. SExtractor, an established command-line software program for aperture photometry.
Aperture and Sky Annulus
Aperture geometry, size, and location in the image are important parameters in aperture photometry. APT allows circular and elliptical shapes for apertures and sky annuli (the latter are used for background estimation). The rotation can be controlled in the case of an ellipse.
The sky annulus will have the same shape as the aperture, but with larger inner and outer radii than the aperture.
Although there is no hard limitation on the size, it is practically limited by the software's response time in the calculation for a large aperture and sky annulus, and the tool for the user to interactively specify the size parameters includes a subimage that is only about 80 pixels on a side (at this time). The aperture is placed on the desired image location with a mouse click. Options to allow minor adjustments of the aperture position via centroiding are available. APT also has pixel-zapping functionality, which can be used to temporarily set the value of select pixels to NaN (not a number), effectively removing them from the aperture-photometry calculations.
Sky Coordinates
For aperture photometry on an astronomical image, it is often useful to know the sky coordinates of an image pixel. APT computes and displays sky coordinates if keywords that define a World Coordinate System (WCS) are present in the header of the FITS-image file. APT handles the commonly used tangent or gnomonic projection (TAN, TPV, and SIP subtypes), as well as the sine (a.k.a. orthographic), Cartesian, and Aitoff projections(the latter is probably only useful for display purposes).
Recent updates to APT include the ability to read FITS image files which use a Pixel Coordinate matrix (PCM), such as that used by the Panoramic Survey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%20de%20Mayo%20metro%20station | 5 de Mayo is a Panama Metro station on Line 1. It was one of the metro network's first 11 stations, opened on 5 April 2014 and commencing operations the following day.
The station is the closest to Panama City's Old Town. It is also located closest to the Metropolitan cathedral, Cinta Costera and Oceanographic museum. In its first year of operations, 5 de Mayo was the second most used station on the network, carrying 16% of the system's users at peak times.
References
Panama Metro stations
2014 establishments in Panama
Railway stations opened in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical%20Association%20of%20Third%20World%20Theologians | The Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) is a network of theologians coming primarily from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and interested in creating theology that is relevant for their contexts. The group tended to critique traditional Christian theology as being too European and underscored the need for theology that addressed the challenges of poverty and oppression.
History
O. K. Bimwenyi from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was one of the key figures of the formation of EATWOT. While Bimwenyi was studying in Catholic University of Louvain, he visited the general meeting of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in India in December 1974 and discussed the need for a network of theologians to address the pressing concerns of poverty and oppression in the third world.
In 1976, the first official meeting of EATWOT would be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Joshua Russell Chandran as its first president until 1981. From this early start, the organization would produce a bi-annually published theological journal entitled Voices from the Third World.
In the beginning, the organization would not allow women to be members. It would only be at the New Delhi meeting in 1981 that women were beginning to be allowed to have a voice in EATWOT. Female figures such as Virginia Fabella and Mercy Amba Oduyoye, the latter who eventually became EATWOT's first female president (1997–2001), would continually challenge the absence of female leadership in the global church and in EATWOT. These efforts would result in the formation of the Women's Commission of EATWOT.
See also
World Christianity
World Council of Churches
References
External links
Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians
Columbia University Libraries, Records of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, 1975-2001
World Christianity
Indigenous Christianity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental%20learning | In computer science, incremental learning is a method of machine learning in which input data is continuously used to extend the existing model's knowledge i.e. to further train the model. It represents a dynamic technique of supervised learning and unsupervised learning that can be applied when training data becomes available gradually over time or its size is out of system memory limits. Algorithms that can facilitate incremental learning are known as incremental machine learning algorithms.
Many traditional machine learning algorithms inherently support incremental learning.
Other algorithms can be adapted to facilitate incremental learning.
Examples of incremental algorithms include
decision trees
(IDE4,
ID5R and gaenari),
decision rules,
artificial neural networks
(RBF networks,
Learn++,
Fuzzy ARTMAP,
TopoART, and
IGNG) or
the incremental SVM.
The aim of incremental learning is for the learning model to adapt to new data without forgetting its existing knowledge. Some incremental learners have built-in some parameter or assumption that controls the relevancy of old data, while others, called stable incremental machine learning algorithms, learn representations of the training data that are not even partially forgotten over time. Fuzzy ART and TopoART are two examples for this second approach.
Incremental algorithms are frequently applied to data streams or big data, addressing issues in data availability and resource scarcity respectively. Stock trend prediction and user profiling are some examples of data streams where new data becomes continuously available. Applying incremental learning to big data aims to produce faster classification or forecasting times.
References
External links
LibTopoART: A software library for incremental learning tasks
gaenari: C++ incremental decision tree algorithm
youtube search results Incremental Learning
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4US | 4US is an Australian community radio station located in Rockhampton, Queensland.
The station is managed by the Central Queensland Aboriginal Corporation for Media and broadcasts programming specifically aimed at Central Queensland's Aboriginal community on 100.7 FM.
4US first went to air in 1998 with programs originating from an outside broadcast van that had been donated to the station by ABC Capricornia, before the station established a better equipped studio in the heritage-listed Rockhampton Harbour Board Building.
In 2005, the station moved to a new studio at the Dreamtime Cultural Centre in North Rockhampton, where it continues to broadcast.
In the past, 4US announcers have attended training sessions at Brisbane indigenous radio station, 98.9 FM where 4US staff worked with experienced radio broadcasters including industry veteran Jamie Dunn.
References
Radio stations in Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Javey | Ali Javey is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-director of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. His research is focused on materials and device innovation for technological applications, particularly photovoltaics, wearable sensors, nanoelectronics, and programmable materials.
Javey is an Associate Editor for ACS Nano.
Education
Javey received his BS in chemistry from Old Dominion University in 2001 and his PhD in physical chemistry from Stanford University in 2005. He was a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2005 to 2006.
Honors and awards
Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2020)
Bakar Fellow—UC Berkeley (2016)
MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2015)
Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship (2014)
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (2012)
APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (2011)
Netexplorateur of the Year Award (2011)
IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award (2010)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2010)
Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovators Award (2010)
National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (2009)
Technology Review TR35 (2009)
NSF Early CAREER Award (2008)
U.S. Frontiers of Engineering by National Academy of Engineering (2008)
Peter Verhofstadt Fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (2003).
Footnotes
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Old Dominion University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20Blockchain%20Corp | Long Blockchain Corp. (formerly Long Island Iced Tea Corp.) is an American corporation based in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. Its wholly owned subsidiary Long Island Brand Beverages, LLC produces ready-to-drink iced tea and lemonade under the "Long Island" brand. The company's first product was made available in 2011.
In 2017 the corporation rebranded as Long Blockchain Corp. as part of a corporate shift towards "exploration of and investment in opportunities that leverage the benefits of blockchain technology" and reported they were exploring blockchain-related acquisitions.
On April 10, 2018, Long Blockchain received a letter stating that its stock would be delisted by the NASDAQ stock exchange. Its shares would subsequently be eligible for trades over the counter. The company had by that time abandoned its plans to purchase Bitcoin mining equipment. Following the company's removal from NASDAQ, it traded over the counter.
The SEC subpoenaed documents from the firm on July 10, 2018 in a move widely believed to be related to the name change. The FBI has looked for evidence "of insider trading and securities fraud connected to Long Island Iced Tea stock." The firm stated that they were fully cooperating with the investigation.
On February 22, 2021, the SEC delisted Long Blockchain Corp's shares, saying that the company had not filed financial reports since September 30, 2018, and that it never completed its planned transition to producing blockchain technology.
In July 2021 SEC announced charges of insider trading against three major Long Blockchain investors who allegedly bought substantial numbers of shares which they sold after the stock gained as much as 380%. They allegedly had advance notice of the name change which preceded and caused the stock rise.
References
External links
Long Island Iced Tea website
Companies based in Nassau County, New York
American companies established in 2011
Iced tea brands
Oyster Bay (town), New York
Food and drink companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in New York (state)
Blockchain entities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window%20Warriors | Window Warriors is an American reality competition series on Game Show Network which premiered November 15, 2016.
Contestants
(Contestants names and locations are stated on website and during the show.)
Contestant Progress
The contestant won.
The contestant came in second-place.
The contestant came in third-place
The contestant won the challenge.
The contestant was in the top.
The contestant was in the bottom two.
The contestant was eliminated.
The contestant returned as a guest for the finale episode.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2016 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Game Show Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberPowWow | CyberPowWow is an Indigenous-determined online gallery with digital artworks and a library of texts. Conceived in 1996, it was live online from 1997 to 2004 in four main iterations. CyberPowWow was part webspace and part chatroom, and all artwork displayed on the website was created specifically for CyberPowWow. The website was hosted in Time Warner's The Palace, a popular and influential chat room of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
First CyberPowWow exhibition
For the first CyberPowWow event six Indigenous artists and writers were invited to create original site-specific works. The exhibition was launched with a simultaneous, distributed chat event. Participating artists, writers, and the wider public were invited to log on to the Palace to engage artists and visitors in discussions about the artwork. Skawennati Tricia Fragnito (known professionally as Skawennati), one of the developers of CyberPowWow, and Jason Edward Lewis state that, "the event was successful in terms of the Aboriginal art and issues it brought into a public venue," but that, "critical dialogue was often interrupted by 'non-participants' drifting in from other chat rooms."
CyberPowWow 2
CyberPowWow 2 signaled the launch of a separate Palace unique to CyberPowWow. Eight Indigenous artists and writers customized the chat space with imagery, scripts, and a variety of "Indian" avatars. Artists presented their work and answered questions about it from an enthusiastic audience composed largely of people from the Canadian contemporary art community. The participants included Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, Sheryl Kootenhayoo, who contributed a Quicktime virtual reality piece, and Lori Blondeau, who created and led a virtual round dance.
CPW 2K: CyberPowWow Goes Global
The third incarnation of CyberPowWow included not only Canadian and American artists, but, for the first time, Australian artists as well as non-Indigenous artists. The Indigenous participants were joined by Mare Burgess, a white feminist researcher who studies "Indian" warrior women, and Sheila Urbanoski, a white artist who grew up in a town bordering a reserve. Skawennati remarked in her curatorial essay: "Now that we have marked our territory, built a Palace and furnished it, it is time to invite in our neighbors: digital artists in the non-Native world. These friends, collaborators, and kindred spirits can talk about the very topic that we are engendering: Aboriginal meets non-Aboriginal."
References
Further reading
Proulx, Mikhel. "CyberPowWow: Digital Natives and the First Wave of Online Publication," Journal of Canadian Art History, Vol. XXXVI:1, Concordia University (Fall 2016).
External links
Native American art
Indigenous art in Canada
Virtual art museums and galleries
Canadian websites
Internet properties established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-radix%20FFT%20algorithm | The vector-radix FFT algorithm, is a multidimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, which is a generalization of the ordinary Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm that divides the transform dimensions by arbitrary radices. It breaks a multidimensional (MD) discrete Fourier transform (DFT) down into successively smaller MD DFTs until, ultimately, only trivial MD DFTs need to be evaluated.
The most common multidimensional FFT algorithm is the row-column algorithm, which means transforming the array first in one index and then in the other, see more in FFT. Then a radix-2 direct 2-D FFT has been developed, and it can eliminate 25% of the multiplies as compared to the conventional row-column approach. And this algorithm has been extended to rectangular arrays and arbitrary radices, which is the general vector-radix algorithm.
Vector-radix FFT algorithm can reduce the number of complex multiplications significantly, compared to row-vector algorithm. For example, for a element matrix (M dimensions, and size N on each dimension), the number of complex multiples of vector-radix FFT algorithm for radix-2 is , meanwhile, for row-column algorithm, it is . And generally, even larger savings in multiplies are obtained when this algorithm is operated on larger radices and on higher dimensional arrays.
Overall, the vector-radix algorithm significantly reduces the structural complexity of the traditional DFT having a better indexing scheme, at the expense of a slight increase in arithmetic operations. So this algorithm is widely used for many applications in engineering, science, and mathematics, for example, implementations in image processing, and high speed FFT processor designing.
2-D DIT case
As with the Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm, the two dimensional vector-radix FFT is derived by decomposing the regular 2-D DFT into sums of smaller DFT's multiplied by "twiddle" factors.
A decimation-in-time (DIT) algorithm means the decomposition is based on time domain , see more in Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm.
We suppose the 2-D DFT is defined
where ,and , and is an matrix, and .
For simplicity, let us assume that , and the radix- is such that is an integer.
Using the change of variables:
, where
, where
where or , then the two dimensional DFT can be written as:
The equation above defines the basic structure of the 2-D DIT radix- "butterfly". (See 1-D "butterfly" in Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm)
When , the equation can be broken into four summations, and this leads to:
for ,
where .
The can be viewed as the -dimensional DFT, each over a subset of the original sample:
is the DFT over those samples of for which both and are even;
is the DFT over the samples for which is even and is odd;
is the DFT over the samples for which is odd and is even;
is the DFT over the samples for which both and are odd.
Thanks to the periodicity of the complex exponential, we can obtain the following additional identities, valid for :
;
;
.
2-D DIF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisite%20cloud | A multisite cloud is a cloud composed of several single sites (or data centers), each from the same or different providers and explicitly accessible to cloud users. In the multisite cloud environment, the tasks of a program or a workflow should be scheduled in order to achieve efficient processing.
References
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E1%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | The European route E1 in the United Kingdom is a series of roads, part of the International E-road network running completely in the British region of Northern Ireland from Larne, by the capital Belfast to the Irish border at Newry. Eventually the route goes to the Republic of Ireland, Spain and Portugal.
Route
The E1 starts at the port of Larne following the A8 towards Newtownabbey where it merges with the M2 motorway to Belfast. In the city centre, the route follows the A12 until the M1 motorway. At Lisburn the E1 takes exit 8 to the A1 towards Newry where it crosses the border with the Republic of Ireland changing to the Irish M1 motorway towards the capital Dublin. It has a total distance covered in the United Kingdom of 104 km (65 mi).
Detailed route
References
European routes in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus%20Data%20Technologies | Nautilus Data Technologies, based in Pleasanton, California, is an American company developing floating data centers. It was founded by U.S. Navy veteran Arnold Magcale. , the CEO is James L. Connaughton. The floating data center concept, also called a data barge, is being developed at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard in association with elements of the U.S. Navy including SPAWAR. The company plans to operate a barge in the Stockton Deep Water Channel, circulating water on board to cool equipment and returning it to the source hotter.
See also
Google barges
Nautilus data technologies focuses on energy saving. In its concept of floating data center in which it has plan to implement naturally cooling process for its IT equipment. It aims environment-friendly services by eliminating the use of chemicals, refrigerants.
References
External links
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korhan%20Erel | Korhan Erel (1973, Istanbul) is a musician, improviser, sound designer based in Berlin.
Korhan plays instruments they design on a computer or other electronic instruments by employing various controllers. They are a founding member of Islak Köpek, Turkey's pioneer free improvisation group, which is regarded as the band that started the free improvisation scene in Turkey. They compose and design sounds for dance, theater, installations and film, and collaborate with dancers, video artists, and spoken word artists.
Early life
Korhan Erel was born on 26 August 1973 to Şaziye Erel and Recep Celil Erel. At the time, Şaziye Erel was working in the Turkish Customs as a clerk, while Recep Celil was working in Anadolu Sigorta. Şaziye Erel's first memory of Korhan's deep interest in sounds was when Korhan as a toddler would make her take them to a bathroom (either their own or their host's bathroom) and there she would have to flush the toilet numerous times while Korhan listened to the flushing of the water and the refilling of the reservoir. If she stopped before Korhan had heard enough, Korhan would cry and she'd have to continue, during a serious financial crisis in mid-70s Turkey where even water was rationed and sparse.
After elementary school, Korhan studied secondary and high school at Robert College, an American-Turkish secondary education institution in Istanbul, from 1985 until 1991. During this period, they had their first computer, a Commodore 64, in the summer of 1985. After a year of only playing computer games, Korhan realized the incredible sounds the computer was able to produce, and started to learn coding. With the Commodore 64, they was not able to go a great distance, but the Commodore Amiga they bought in 1989 changed things forever with its sample playback capability.
Selected Projects
David Rothenberg and Korhan Erel – Berlin Bülbül
David Rothenberg met Erel during their one-year residency in Berlin. Berlin is one of the most important cities in Europe for nightingales, which is one of the key routes of immigration from Africa through Europe in the spring. David Rothenberg and Erel started to improvise with nightingales in Berlin's parks at midnight. The first concert held on 9 May 2014 and this concert's recordings were used for the album Berlin Bülbül in 2015. The album launch concerts took place in Borusan Music House (Istanbul) on 3 April 2015 and in Sammlung Hoffman (Berlin) on 10 May 2015.
Since 2014, Rothenberg and Erel have been playing with nightingales every May in Berlin.
The Liz
The Liz is a power trio comprising Liz Allbee (amplified trumpet, voice, text, video, stage design), Liz Kosack (synthesizer, voice, masks, puppets) and Korhan Liz Erel (computer, electronics, sound design, voice). The project is the story of transformations and multiples: a maiden Sphinx, Anubis the dog of death, and Oedipus, as narrated by Kathy Acker. Drawing from traditional Greek myth, as well as Jean Cocteau's 'Infernal Machine' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currae%20Hospital | Currae Hospital is a chain of multi-specialty hospitals in India. It has its hospitals in Thane and Mumbai.
Currae is owned by Apoorva Patni, son of Ashok Patni who co-founded Patni Computer Systems. Patni Healthcare Ltd. owns and operates Currae Hospitals. It is engaged in providing specialties including orthopaedics and spine, general surgery, bariatric, gynaecology, urology, plastic and cosmetic surgery and gastroenterology. It plans to set up about 20 hospitals under this brand focusing on child and mother care, orthopaedics and ophthalmology. Four were established between 2012 and 2016.
In 2016 it offered a cashless cataract surgery program for patients without health insurance where payment could be made by monthly installments without interest.
Currae Hospitals was recognised by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers, India in 2017 for its quality of healthcare
Expansion & Network
Apoorva Patni (Director at Currae Healthcare - a Patni enterprise), is planning an investment of Rs.500 crore to set up 30 hospitals by 2022. Two hospitals in areas of ortho-spine, mother & child and Infertility Treatment have been set up in Mumbai & Thane with an investment of Rs.100 crore.
Currae Hospitals currently has 2 hospitals in its network :
Currae Specialty Hospital, Thane (W) (Kapurbawdi Junction)
Currae Women's Hospital, Thane (W) (Ghodbunder Road)
It has established an investment fund, the Currae HealthTech Fund, which has made investments in 17 health technology companies.
References
Hospitals in Mumbai
Year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Practical | Art Practical is an online arts magazine based in San Francisco producing arts criticism, essays, quarterly issues, and programming related to contemporary art and visual culture in they Bay Area and beyond.
History
The magazine was established in 2009 by Patricia Maloney, who served as director and editor-in-chief until 2015. In 2013, the publication acquired and incorporated the events website Happenstand and the arts publication Daily Serving, which maintained its independent site with Maloney as director. Beginning in 2015, the California College of the Arts became the publisher of Art Practical and Daily Serving with Maloney transitioning to executive director and with Kara Q. Smith and Bean Gilsdorf, respectively, as editors-in-chief. In March 2015, Maloney resigned and took the position of executive director of Southern Exposure. Michele Carlson was named as the new executive director in May 2016.
Publication
The magazine has produced over 1,000 reviews, hundreds of columns, and more than a dozen thematic issues organized by staff and guest editors. The publication also hosts a user-submitted events calendar for arts and cultural events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Programming
The magazine has organized programming and partnered with numerous organizations including The Lab, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ratio 3, and the Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium.
The publication was awarded a residency in 2011 in Kansas City via the Charlotte Street Foundation and Spencer Museum of Art and a residency in 2012 in Miami via Cannonball (formerly Legal Art Miami).
From 2013-2016, the magazine co-sponsored an artist residency with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The recipients of the three residencies were Chris Vargas (2013), Nomi Talisman and Dee Hilbert-Jones (2014), and Jerome Reyes (2016).
References
External links
Contemporary art magazines
Magazines established in 2009
Magazines published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Online magazines published in the United States
Visual arts magazines published in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween%20Wars | Halloween Wars is an American reality competition series from Super Delicious, the production company that also produces Cupcake Wars and Cake Wars. It premiered on October 2, 2011, on Food Network and it runs over the course of four weeks in October annually. The show pits five teams made up of cake sculptors, sugar artists, and pumpkin carvers against each other to produce the ultimate Halloween themed display. The winning team is awarded $50,000. For season 13, the winning team is awarded $25,000.
The series was hosted by Justin Willman (seasons 1–4), Rossi Morreale (season 5), Jonathan Bennett (seasons 6-10, 13), and for seasons 11 and 12, hosted by paranormal investigator Zak Bagans from Ghost Adventures.
Rounds
Each episode has two rounds. The first round is the "Small Scare" where the teams of trios get 45 minutes to create their interpretation of a spooky theme (ex: "possessed electronics" or "zombie dolls"). The winners of the first round get an extra assistant for the second round (starting in season three, winners of the final episode "Small Scare" round get first pick of the pumpkins).
The second round is the "Spine Chiller" where the teams get five hours to create a large-scale, immersive sculpture based on a new theme. They must also serve a tasting element that usually have something to do with the theme. The themes for the second round relate to the title of each episode (like in "Zombies vs Vampires" where the teams had to create a scene depicting a zombie battling a vampire using cake, candy, and pumpkin).
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Judges
There are three judges in the series, with two of them serving as permanent judges in seasons 1-10. Throughout the series award-winning cake artist Shinmin Li served as permanent judge. Hollywood conceptual artist Miles Teves was the second judge in season 1. Actor and award-winning special effects artist Tom Savini was the second judge in season 2. Emmy-nominated SFX make-up artist Brian Kinney was the second judge in seasons 3–5. Writer/director of Child's Play, Don Mancini joined Shinmin in season 6. Director and effects artist Todd Tucker was the male judge in seasons 7–10. Starting in season 11, Food Network Star winner Aarti Sequeira serves as permanent judges along w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong%20Van%20Karst%20Plateau%20Geopark | Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark () is a geopark in northern Vietnam. It shares border with China in the north. It is a member of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network and Asia Pacific Geoparks Network, officially since Oct 3, 2010.
Nature
Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark is located in Hà Giang Province, the northernmost province in Vietnam. It takes up most of the area of four of the province's districts: Mèo Vạc, Đồng Văn, Yên Minh, and Quản Bạ. The area of the geopark is 2356,8 km2. The average elevation within the geopark is 1400 to 1600 meters above sea level.
About 80% of the area of the geopark is covered by limestone. There are many huge mountains here, the highest one is Mount Mieu Vac (1971 m), meanwhile, there are also many deep canyons, the deepest one is Tu San (about 800 m).
The climate of the geopark varies depending on elevation, but the majority of the park has a temperate climate with two seasons: rainy season and dry season. The annual mean temperature is 24 to 28°C, but it may drop down to 5°C in the winter.
Geology
The geopark is located at an extension foot mount East of the Himalayas.
Geoheritages date from the Cambrian (about 550 million years ago) to the present in seven different stages and include palaeobiology, stratigraphy, geomorphology, tectonics, karst, caves and also important faults. The geology in this geopark reflects important events in Earth history, like of two mass extinction boundaries of Frasnian-Famennian (360 million years ago) and Permian-Triassic (250 million years ago). This includes 3 groups of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, as well as stratigraphic, lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic specificities. Its paleontological diversity shows 19 groups of valuable ancient organisms like ancient fish, ancient flora, brachiopods (eurispirifer tonkinesis), bivalves, trilobites, foraminifera, corals, conodonta, crinoidea and fossilized paths of molluscs.
The Geopark has two natural conservation areas rich in fauna and flora species such as conifers, Asian black bear, Southern serow (a solitary mountain goat) and many species of bird. Moreover, the unusual and mysterious Tonkin snub-nosed monkey is one of the 25 most endangered species of primate in the world. It is only found in Hà Giang province and was believed extinct until its rediscovery in the early 1990s.
The oldest fossil found in the park was found at Lũng Cú peak, and has been dated to 540 million years old.
Inhabitants
17 ethnic minority groups live within the geopark, such as the Hmong, Dao, La Chí, Pu Péo, Lô Lô, Tày, and Nùng. They have a great, varied and valuable cultural heritage.
Major Geosites
Mã Pí Lèng Pass (Mèo Vạc district)
Tu San Canyon (Mèo Vạc district), the deepest canyon in Vietnam. It has a depth of about 800 m, a length of 1.7 km, and cliffs that slope 70° to 90°.
Lũng Cú Peak (Đồng Văn district)
Fairy bosom peaks (Quản Bạ district)
References
External links
Geoparks in Vietnam
Hà Giang province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Regional%20Sports%20Network | The Michigan Regional Sports Network is an online sports radio network based in Flint, Michigan. The station debuted on August 25, 2008. The station presently serves as the home network of:
Southeast Michigan high school sports
Mott Community College Sports
Local and national sports
London Mustangs of the Ontario Junior Football League
Saginaw Swan Valley Sports
MRSN is also an affiliate of Sports USA, which broadcasts the NFL and NCAA. MRSN is the State of Michigan's affiliate station for the Ontario Hockey League's Erie Otters.
References
External links
Michigan Regional Sports Network
Sports television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYCL | SYCL is a higher-level programming model to improve programming productivity on various hardware accelerators. It is a single-source embedded domain-specific language (eDSL) based on pure C++17. It is a standard developed by Khronos Group, announced in March 2014.
Origin of the name
SYCL (pronounced ‘sickle’) originally stood for SYstem-wide Compute Language, but since 2020 SYCL developers have stated that SYCL is a name and have made clear that it is no longer an acronym and contains no reference to OpenCL.
Purpose
SYCL is a royalty-free, cross-platform abstraction layer that builds on the underlying concepts, portability and efficiency inspired by OpenCL that enables code for heterogeneous processors to be written in a “single-source” style using completely standard C++. SYCL enables single-source development where C++ template functions can contain both host and device code to construct complex algorithms that use hardware accelerators, and then re-use them throughout their source code on different types of data.
While the SYCL standard started as the higher-level programming model sub-group of the OpenCL working group and was originally developed for use with OpenCL and SPIR, SYCL is a Khronos Group workgroup independent from the OpenCL working group since September 20, 2019 and starting with SYCL 2020, SYCL has been generalized as a more general heterogeneous framework able to target other systems. This is now possible with the concept of a generic backend to target any acceleration API while enabling full interoperability with the target API, like using existing native libraries to reach the maximum performance along with simplifying the programming effort. For example, the Open SYCL implementation targets ROCm and CUDA via AMD's cross-vendor HIP.
Versions
SYCL was introduced at GDC in March 2014 with
provisional version 1.2, then the SYCL 1.2 final version was
introduced at IWOCL 2015 in May 2015.
The latest version for the previous SYCL 1.2.1 series is SYCL 1.2.1 revision 7 which was published on April 27, 2020 (the first version was published on December 6, 2017).
SYCL 2.2 provisional was introduced at IWOCL 2016 in May 2016 targeting C++14 and OpenCL 2.2. But the SYCL committee preferred not to finalize this version and to move towards a more flexible SYCL specification to address the increasing diversity of current hardware accelerators, including artificial intelligence engines, which led to SYCL 2020.
The latest version is SYCL 2020 revision 6 which was published on November 13, 2022, an evolution from first release of revision 2 which was published on February 9, 2021, taking into account the feedback from users and implementors on the SYCL 2020 Provisional Specification revision 1 published on
June 30, 2020. C++17 and OpenCL 3.0 support are main targets of this release. Unified shared memory (USM) is one main feature for GPUs with OpenCL and CUDA support.
At IWOCL 2021 a roadmap was presented. DPC++, ComputeCpp, Open SYCL, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R%20King | CD-R King (styled as cd-r king or CD-R KING) was a Filipino retail chain that sells discounted computer parts and gadgets, electronic appliances, and accessories. CD-R King's branches were often located in malls, where they competed against higher-end electronics retailers.
History
CD-R King was initially known for selling recordable media in bulk at a fraction of the cost in the early 2000s, later expanded their line to other products in response to changing market and technological trends over the years, even going so far as to offering goods which have little or nothing to do with optical media or information technology in general, (e.g. ornaments and other such accessories; this prompted the introduction of their branding divisions like STARK for appliances, California ECO-BIKE for electric bicycles, Mobile King for cell phones, and Kenko World for their cell phone accessories and health and beauty products). Most of CD-R King's products were sourced from original design manufacturers from China, Taiwan and other countries, and were sold under their own brand. Many CD-R King-branded products were re-branded versions of the same or similar products sold in parallel by their manufacturers.
It became the popular gadget store in Metro Manila and spread out to Luzon, then to Cebu City, and later had branches nationwide with more than 350 branches (excluding Kenko World branches) in all major shopping mall chains in the country.
Copyright concerns
The company's operations gained controversy as the Optical Media Board accused CD-R King in 2008 of facilitating copyright infringement through inexpensive media supplied by the company, imposing a ₱1.5 million penalty for failing to produce permits for some of its optical media disc importations.
In 2013, Globe Telecom signed agreements with several major retailers of gadgets and IT equipment, including CD-R King, in a bid to curb the sale of illegal repeaters or signal boosters in the country. The agreement binds retailers from selling signal boosters that do not comply with the specifications set by the National Telecommunications Commission.
Products
CD-R King sold various products under their CD-R King, Stark and Kenko World brands, in addition to licensed merchandise based on Disney properties among other things. Aside from optical storage media, they also sold cellular phones, electronic gadgets, accessories, appliances, electric bicycles and even health and beauty products.
Reception
Despite gaining popularity for offering gadgets and computer accessories at discounted prices, the company gained a somewhat dubious reputation for its build quality, with some items breaking down shortly after purchase.
See also
Dick Smith
Octagon Computer Superstore
Silicon Valley
References
External links
Retail companies of the Philippines
Philippine brands
Electronic component distributors
Home computer hardware companies
Companies based in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Boncz | Peter Boncz is a Dutch computer scientist specializing in database systems. He is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the special chair of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management.
He is a pioneer and expert in the area of high performance, analytical database systems. As part of his PhD work, he designed MonetDB, one of the first relational column database systems. MonetDB is widely influential in the design of commercial analytical database systems and in recognition the team received 10-year Best Paper Award at VLDB 2009. In 2004 he started the MonetDB/X100 research project, aiming to significantly improve the performance of MonetDB via vectorized processing. This research project led to a commercial spin-off VectorWise.
Boncz's research in database technologies created 3 spin-off companies. Data Distilleries (1996-2003) focused on developing data mining software and used MonetDB as its backend. Data Distilleries was acquired by SPSS in 2003. MonetDB BV (2008-present) provides consulting and support service for MonetDB users. Vectorwise (2008-2010) commercialized the X100 research project and was acquired by Actian in 2010.
Boncz was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to the design of columnar, main-memory, and vectorized database systems".
References
External links
Website at CWI
Dutch computer scientists
Living people
21st-century Dutch scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Database researchers
Scientists from Amsterdam
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
University of Amsterdam alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Habbo is a social networking hotel game site.
Habbo may also refer to:
Habbo, Morocco, a settlement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Roncz | John Gregory Roncz (1948-2023) was an inventor, businessman, computer expert, book author, and aerodynamicist. Roncz designed the sail for the racing yacht Stars and Stripes, which won the 1988 America’s Cup, and worked on Steve Fossett’s Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft. Roncz thoroughly researched airfoils and the aerodynamics thereof, contributing greatly to the modern understanding of airfoil performance.
External links
Wingtip for a General Aviation Aircraft (patent application) - John Roncz
References
Wing Man (David Noland, Air & Space, December 1990/January 1991, pp. 34–40)
Aviation pioneers
1948 births
People from Indiana
American aerospace engineers
American aviators
Aviation inventors
Living people |
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