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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E1%20in%20Spain | The European route E1 in Spain is a series of roads, part of the International E-road network running in two parts through the Southern European country. The first part runs completely through the Autonomous community of Galicia in Northwestern Spain. The E1 arrives from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland by a non-existent ferry route between Rosslare Harbour and Ferrol. From there it runs to the Portuguese border. After crossing Portugal all the way to the south, the E1 starts with the second Spanish part after crossing the border at the Guadiana river. The highway runs only through Andalusia until it ends at the city of Seville.
Route
The first part starts at the city of Ferrol at the Bay of Biscay. From there it follows the AP-9 motorway passing close by A Coruña before it goes to the capital and pilgrimage destination of Santiago de Compostela. After running through the green hills and passing Pontevedra, it arrives in the largest city of Galicia Vigo. The AP-9 motorway stops at the Autovía A-55 near Tui. Eventually the E1 crosses the border with Portugal on the Minho river. This is one of the most important highways in Galicia as it connects the largest cities on the Atlantic coast. After the Portuguese interruption, the Spanish part of the E1 starts again at the Guadiana river in Ayamonte entering Andalusia. It passes the major city of Huelva following the A-49 until the Andalusian capital Seville. It covers a total distance of 337 km (209 mi) within Spain.
Detailed route
References
International E-road network in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20journalism | Automated journalism, also known as algorithmic journalism or robot journalism, is a term that attempts to describe modern technological processes that have infiltrated the journalistic profession, such as news articles generated by computer programs. There are four main fields of application for automated journalism, namely automated content production, Data Mining, news dissemination and content optimization. Through artificial intelligence (AI) software, stories are produced automatically by computers rather than human reporters. These programs interpret, organize, and present data in human-readable ways. Typically, the process involves an algorithm that scans large amounts of provided data, selects from an assortment of pre-programmed article structures, orders key points, and inserts details such as names, places, amounts, rankings, statistics, and other figures. The output can also be customized to fit a certain voice, tone, or style.
Data science and AI companies such as Automated Insights, Narrative Science, United Robots and Monok develop and provide these algorithms to news outlets. As of 2016, only a few media organizations have used automated journalism. Early adopters include news providers such as the Associated Press, Forbes, ProPublica, and the Los Angeles Times.
Early implementations were mainly used for stories based on statistics and numerical figures. Common topics include sports recaps, weather, financial reports, real estate analysis, and earnings reviews. StatSheet, an online platform covering college basketball, runs entirely on an automated program. The Associated Press began using automation to cover 10,000 minor baseball leagues games annually, using a program from Automated Insights and statistics from MLB Advanced Media. Outside of sports, the Associated Press also uses automation to produce stories on corporate earnings. In 2006, Thomson Reuters announced their switch to automation to generate financial news stories on its online news platform. More famously, an algorithm called Quakebot published a story about a 2014 California earthquake on The Los Angeles Times website within three minutes after the shaking had stopped.
Automated journalism is sometimes seen as an opportunity to free journalists from routine reporting, providing them with more time for complex tasks. It also allows efficiency and cost-cutting, alleviating some financial burden that many news organizations face. However, automated journalism is also perceived as a threat to the authorship and quality of news and a threat to the livelihoods of human journalists.
Benefits
Speed
Robot reporters are built to produce large quantities of information at quicker speeds. The Associated Press announced that their use of automation has increased the volume of earnings reports from customers by more than ten times. With software from Automated Insights and data from other companies, they can produce 150 to 300-word articles in the same time it takes jour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarisse%20Iribagiza | Clarisse Iribagiza (born 28 January 1988) is a computer scientist in Rwanda. She is the CEO and co-founder of the mobile technology company HeHe Limited and she is one of the UNCTAD's seven "eTrade for Women Advocates from the developing world". She was previously the winner of the East African entrepreneur reality TV show Inspire Africa Season 1.
Biography
Iribagiza attended the University of Rwanda’s College of Science and Technology and she attended a short Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) incubation program.
She founded her company whilst still an under graduate. Her company has grown to have two million customers. The company works with local suppliers and they get access to an on-line store for their goods, inventory maintenance and they receive digital payments from their end customers. HeHe Labs has partnered with GirlHub in an initiative that aims to inspire ambition in Rwandan girls. They teach them about not just ICT, but technology and design in general and in critical thinking.
Iribagiza was one of the "20 movers and shakers of Africa" named at the continent CEO Summit in 2012 and the following year Jeannette Kagame, the First Lady of Rwanda recognised her as one of the Imbuto Foundation's "Celebrating Young Rwandan Achievers".
In 2017 she was named as one of OkayAfrica's 100 Women. Irabagiza sits on the African Development Bank's Presidential Youth Advisory Group.
On 24 September 2019 the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development announced seven "eTrade for Women Advocates" from the developing world. Irabagiza was named and the others were Nina Angelovska, Nazanin Daneshvar, Xiaofei Yao, Patricia Zoundi Yao, Claudia de Heredia and Helianti Hilman. It was announced on the periphery of the United Nations General Assembly in New York but Irabagiza was one of two who did not attend the award ceremony.
Other awards
Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30 for 2015
An Italian think tank, LSDP (Lo Spazio della Politica) named Iribagiz among their top 100 global thinkers.
References
Living people
Rwandan businesspeople
1988 births
Rwandan women
Computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%202017%20%28Colombia%29 | This is a list of the National-Report Top 100 Nacional number-one songs of 2017. Chart rankings are based on radio play and are issued weekly. The data is compiled monitoring radio stations through an automated system in real-time.
Number ones by week
References
Number-one songs
Colombia
Colombian record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Java%20frameworks | Below is a list of notable Java programming language technologies (frameworks, libraries)
Java (programming language) libraries
Libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock%20trainwreck | In computer science, the term Mock Trainwreck refers to the difficulty of mocking a deeply nested model structure. Mocking is the creation of mock objects which can be used to mimic the behavior of real objects, often because it is hard to test with the real objects. A trainwreck is multiple levels of method calls (called a chain), which each return objects upon which new methods can be called. Deeply nested models go against the Law of Demeter because the property's property must be accessed. The Law of Demeter, also known as the principle of least knowledge is a design guideline to promote loose coupling of data structures that are not closely related, and thus should probably not be coupled together. In addition, this level of coupling can be considered an inappropriate intimacy code smell.
Mock trainwrecks should be avoided when possible. This is because not only does it makes it harder to test the code which uses them, but also because they are harder to work with from a design standpoint. In addition, it increases the amount of information an object can access, due to its close relation with other parameters that are not related to its main functionality.
Example of a trainwreck
If someone wanted to write a test looking for a library that receives public funding, or by its head librarian, he or she might use code like the following:
Java
assertEqual(
l.getHeadLibrarian()
.getName().split(" ")[1]
, "Smith")
assertEqual(
l.getFunding().getType()
, "public")
Ruby
l.headLibrarian.name.split(/ +/).last.should == "Smith"
l.funding.type.should == "public"
To mock up an object that matches the search result, they would have to have mocking code like what follows:
Java
HeadLibrarian h = mock(HeadLibrarian.class);
when(h.getName()).thenReturn("Jane Smith");
Funding f = mock(Funding.class);
when(f.getType()).thenReturn("public");
Library l = mock(Library.class);
when(l.getHeadLibrarian()).thenReturn(h);
when(l.getFunding()).thenReturn(f);Rubyh = mock('HeadLibrarian', :name => 'Jane Smith')
f = mock('Funding', :type => 'public')
l = mock('Library', :HeadLibrarian => h, :Funding => f)
This is an example of a mock trainwreck, because it is a mock up of two unrelated objects, but it relies on a class, Library, to point to them both.
Ways to avoid the trainwreck
A mock trainwreck can be avoided by making general code changes or by more specific changes through the use of dependency injection and libraries. General code changes allow a nested model to be made more simple, primarily though the creation of an assessor to access the sub property. This prevents the deep nesting which causes the mock trainwreck, and this assessor can be mocked easily.
Dependency injection
Dependency injection (DI), the process by which a dependency is passed to the client which will use it, can be used to soften the trainwreck. One method of DI that is easy to use is a location object to reduce the complexity of building the mock obje |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20songs%20of%201982%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1982, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Hit Parade", which was a Top 10 of the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
Chart history
See also
1982 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1982 in Mexico
Mexico
1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax%20Corpus | Pax Corpus is a 1997 cyberpunk action and adventure video game developed and published by the French studio Cryo Interactive. It was released only in Europe for Windows PC and for the PlayStation console.
Plot
The game takes place in a cyberpunk sci-fi universe where the population is entirely made up of women; the men have all been killed, and the few survivors are mindless slaves. The reproduction of the population is ensured by the cloning technology of a powerful corporation, Alcyon, led by Kiyiana Soro. The player embodies a mercenary, Kahlee, who works for her own account. Kahlee comes to gradually unveil a dangerous project called Pax Corpus. Pax Corpus was created by Dr. Ellys on behalf of Kiyiana Soro. It is a terrible weapon which emits a radiation capable of taking away all freedom of thought from anyone exposed to it for too long; the people who are exposed to it are integrated into a collective entity subject to Alcyon. Kahlee must foil this plot, while maintaining a love-hate relationship with Kiyiana Soro.
Gameplay
Pax Corpus is a third person action game, but includes an option to temporarily switch to first person vision. The player directs their character in a 3D environment, and must eliminate various enemies using several weapons. As the game progresses, the player levels up by finding flashcards that gain proficiency in new weapons.
Development
The game was originally meant to adapt the MTV animated science fiction series Æon Flux, commissioned from Cryo Interactive by Viacom New Media, the video game division of MTV's parent company, Viacom. A beta version of the game was shown at the E3 convention in 1996, with the scenario inspired by the episode "The Demiurge".
The project was abandoned after Viacom acquired Spelling Entertainment and merged Viacom New Media into Spelling's Virgin Interactive, at which time all previous projects at Viacom New Media were canceled. With the game already in late development, Cryo changed the names of the characters and certain details of the universe to remove the copyrighted elements of Æon Flux, then published the game under the title Pax Corpus.
Release and Reception
Pax Corpus was released in the United Kingdom in October 1997 and sold in various retailers and mail-order shops for £33.99. Even after release of the Game, many in Europe still expected Aeon Flux to be released, not realising Pax Corpus was based on it.
The official UK PlayStation Magazine gave it a 2/10 in its final issue calling it "Tomb Raider in Space, but Crap"
Issue 35, August 1998 of UK Magazine PlayStation Plus gave the game 30% critiquing the graphics and lack of gameplay "No rational human can want games like this to exist. The controls are way bollocks, the combat's shite, the whole game's piss-ugly. A big fat waste of time."
The September 1998 issue of Extreme PlayStation Magazine gave Pax Corpus a 19% score with the author stating "I’m going to be brutally honest and say this game is the worst to ever |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20manipulation | Internet manipulation refers to the co-optation of online digital technology, such as social media algorithms and automated scripts, for commercial, social, or political purposes. Due to the importance of digital platforms for media consumption and everyday communication, internet and social media manipulation are the prime vehicles for spreading disinformation. When employed for political purposes, internet manipulation may be used to steer public opinion, polarise citizens, circulate conspiracy theories, and silence political dissidents. Internet manipulation can also be done for profit, for instance, to harm corporate or political adversaries and improve brand reputation.
Cognitive hacking refers to a cyberattack that aims to change users' perceptions and corresponding behaviors.
Internet manipulation is sometimes also used to describe selective Internet censorship or violations of net neutrality.
Issues
Behavior Manipulation: Fake news, disinformation, and AI can secretly affect behavior. This is a different issue from affecting cognitive beliefs, as this can operate outside of awareness, making it harder to detect.
High-arousal emotion virality: It has been found that content that evokes high-arousal emotions (e.g. awe, anger, anxiety or with hidden sexual meaning) is more viral and that content that holds one or many of these elements: surprising, interesting, or useful is taken into consideration.
Simplicity over complexity: Providing and perpetuating simple explanations for complex circumstances may be used for online manipulation. Often such are easier to believe, come in advance of any adequate investigations and have a higher virality than any complex, nuanced explanations and information. (See also: Low-information rationality)
Peer-influence: Prior collective ratings of an web content influences ones own perception of it. In 2015 it was shown that the perceived beauty of a piece of artwork in an online context varies with external influence as confederate ratings were manipulated by opinion and credibility for participants of an experiment who were asked to evaluate a piece of artwork. Furthermore, on Reddit, it has been found that content that initially gets a few down- or upvotes often continues going negative, or vice versa. This is referred to as "bandwagon/snowball voting" by reddit users and administrators.
Filter bubbles: Echo chambers and filter bubbles might be created by Website administrators or moderators locking out people with altering viewpoints or by establishing certain rules or by the typical member viewpoints of online sub/communities or Internet "tribes"
Confirmation bias & manipulated prevalence: Fake news does not need to be read but has an effect in quantity and emotional effect by its headlines and sound bites alone. Specific points, views, issues and people's apparent prevalence can be amplified, stimulated or simulated. (See also: Mere-exposure effect)
Information timeliness and uncorrectability: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling%20All%20Cars%20%28radio%20program%29 | Calling All Cars is an old-time radio police drama in the United States. It was broadcast on the CBS West Coast network and on the Mutual-Don Lee Network November 29, 1933 - September 8, 1939 and carried by transcription on stations in other areas. The program was notable for being one of the first police dramas on radio.
Format
Calling All Cars dramatized cases that had been handled by the Los Angeles Police Department. A typical episode began by relating the facts of a particular crime, then introducing individuals who were associated with the case. A dramatization followed, climaxing in the arrest of the criminal. The outcome of a trial wrapped up the story. In On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, radio historian John Dunning described the program as "a crude forerunner of a type that reached its zenith years later on Dragnet: the tedious routine of tracking killers and robbers, often with a postshow recap telling how justice was meted out."
Personnel
Chief James E. Davis of the Los Angeles Police Department was the host of Calling All Cars, and Charles Frederick Lindsey, professor of speech education at Occidental College, was the narrator. Other on-air people were generally uncredited. William N. Robson wrote and produced the program,
with Mel Williamson and Sam Pierce also writing for it. Robert Hixon was the director.
Sponsors
Networks
Calling All Cars was sponsored by Rio Grande Oil Co., which had dealers in California, Arizona, and Nevada, with commercials promoting its petroleum products and other products and services for vehicles. The company augmented the radio broadcasts with the monthly publication Calling All Cars News, which was available free from service stations that sold Rio Grande products. Issues often contained stories that were related to upcoming episodes of the program. By November 1936, the publication's circulation had reached 400,000. Rio Grande also created an organization for young listeners. After filling out a form obtained from a dealer and sending it in, a youngster received a metal badge with "Junior Police Safety Department" on the front.
Syndication
As time went on, other sponsors used transcriptions of Calling All Cars, spreading it beyond its original western and southwestern coverage. In January 1939, Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. began sponsoring the program on stations in Detroit, Michigan, and St. Louis, Missouri, advertising Twenty Grand cigarettes. In March 1939, Gruen Watch Co. began sponsoring it on a station in Syracuse, New York. In May 1939, Liebmann Breweries began sponsoring it on eight stations in the eastern United States, advertising Rheingold Beer. In February 1940, Ford dealers in the midwestern United States began sponsoring the series on eight midwestern stations; the dealers had already been sponsoring it on a station in Des Moines, Iowa.
Recognition
On December 21, 1938, Calling All Cars received the Institute of Audible Arts Trophy for "the most consistently excellent p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201983%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1983, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil(which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Hit Parade", which was a Top 10 of the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
Chart history
See also
1983 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1983 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCdiger%20Urbanke | Rüdiger Leo Urbanke (born 1966) is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Life
Urbanke studied at the Technical University of Vienna with the diploma as an electrical engineer in 1988 and at the Washington University in St. Louis with the master's degree in 1992 and his doctorate in 1995. He then worked at Bell Laboratories.
Career
From 2000 to 2004 he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. From 2009 till 2012 he was the head of the I&C Doctoral School and in 2013 he served as a Dean of I&C.
Distinctions
Urbanke is a co-recipient of the 2002 and the 2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award, a recipient of the 2011
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, the 2014 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the 2023 Claude E. Shannon Award.
He was selected as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer by the Information theory society for 2013-2014
and received a STOC Best Paper Award in 2016.
Bibliography
References
External links
Austrian computer scientists
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
1966 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz%20%28mobile%20network%20operator%29 | Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited, doing business as Jazz, () is Pakistan's largest mobile network and internet services provider formed by the merger of Mobilink and Warid Pakistan.
It provides a range of services for prepaid and postpaid customers to individual and corporate clients. It is headquartered in Islamabad, and the current CEO is Aamir Hafeez Ibrahim.
History
Formerly known as Mobilink, the company was founded in 1994 as a joint venture between Saif Group and Motorola Inc. In February 2001, Egypt based Orascom Investment Holding bought Motorola’s shares in Jazz to become the majority shareholder with 69% control. Then, in June 2007, Orascom further purchased the remaining shares under Saif Group’s control to become Jazz’s 100% owner.
In 2010, Russian operator VEON agreed to acquire most of the telecom assets of Orascom, including Jazz, in a $6.5 billion deal, creating the world’s fifth-largest mobile network operator by subscriber base. In November 2015, VEON announced the 100% acquisition of Pakistan’s Warid Telecom, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Group. Completed in July 2016 after due approvals, the first-ever local telecom company acquisition created a combined subscriber base of 50 million.
Following the merger of Mobilink and Warid Pakistan, Mobilink was officially rebranded to Jazz in 2017. As of August 2023, Jazz has 70 million subscribers in Pakistan, among which 42 million are 4G subscribers.
VEON will buy the remaining 15% shares in Jazz from Abu Dhabi Group for 100pc ownership. In March 2021, VEON completed the acquisition of 15 percent shares held by Abu Dhabi Group for .
Network
Jazz has over 14,000 active cell sites in the country, with over 25,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cables laid. Huawei, Nokia-Siemens, and ZTE are the primary vendors for networking equipment at Jazz, including Radio Base Stations, Microwave equipment and network switches.
In 2014, Jazz participated in the 2014 NGMS auction held by PTA, which allowed them to bid for a 3G license, and a 10 MHz block in the 2100 MHz band was allocated to Jazz.
In March 2017, Jazz inaugurated their Network Operations Center (NOC) which makes use of IBM and Dell EMC products to manage day-to-day network operations and provides the company with 24x7 network surveillance.
Radio Frequency Summary
Jazz's participation in the 2014 NGMS Auction held by PTA allowed them to bid for the 3G license, which included a 10 MHz block in the 2100 MHz band. In July 2014, they announced that they have over 10,000 3G and 9,000 4G ready cell sites. Jazz did not bid for any 4G spectrum in the 2014 NGMS auction.
Post-merger with Warid, Jazz was able to use Warid's license allowing them to become a4G network using a 5 MHz block in the 1800 MHz band. In May 2017, Jazz won the 2017 NGMS auction held by PTA. This includes a 10 MHz block in the 1800 MHz (FDD-LTE Band 3) frequency to be used for Jazz 4G. Jazz was also awarded additional 4G spectrum on 30 June 2017 by PTA.
4G+ / L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Games | Early Games (aka Early Games for Young Children) is a 1982 educational computer game by Counterpoint Software and Springboard Software, designed by John Paulson. The game contain a series of educational mini-games targeted at preschoolers and designed to teach basic math, language, and logic skills. It was part of the Skill Builder series, along with Fraction Factory, Match Maker, and Piece of Cake.
Reception
By April 6, 1985, Early Games had maintained an 18-week streak on the Billboard charts for Top Educational Software. After dropping off the charts the following week, it re-entered at #5 on April 20, 1985. By August of that year, the game would spend a total of 36 weeks on the charts, then sitting at #3. On May 3, 1986, the game re-entered the charts again, at #8.
PC Magazine negatively compared Early Games for Young Childrens graphics to those of competing title My Letters, Numbers, and Words, through it praised the user friendliness of the former's menu, ultimately giving the program a score of 10.5/18. My Letters, Numbers, and Words received a score of 14.5/18 by comparison. Texas Monthly thought the game was "easy to operate", and added that both the game and Kids on Keys (from Spinnaker Software) were great options to serve as first experiences for young players to have with computers.
References
External links
1982 video games
Educational video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Classic Mac OS games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Your%20Own%20Murder%20Party | Make Your Own Murder Party is a 1986 role-playing video game.
Gameplay
The host of the murder mystery game inputs a series of data about their party guests, and the game automatically generates a mystery with a murder, motives, and a series of clues. These are all able to be printed as player booklets. The game is also able to print invites for the guests, and offers advice on how to host the perfect murder mystery. Once the booklets have been printed out, the game becomes purely physical like a normal murder mystery party; the game simply allows a streamlined process to generate a mystery.
Reception
Compute!'s Gazette approved of the computer not being needed for the party after Make Your Own Murder Partys use. Kiplinger's Personal Finance noted the game's usefulness in helping a host prepare and organise a game, due to "meticulous planning" being crucial in a murder mystery party being successful.
James Trunzo reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Electronic Arts has produced yet another product worthy of your attention."
References
External links
Tilt review (French)
1986 video games
Apple II games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Electronic Arts games
Role-playing video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECSS-E-TM-10-25A | ECSS-E-TM-10-25 "System Engineering - Engineering Design Model Data Exchange (CDF)" is a Technical Memorandum under the E-10 "System engineering" branch in the ECSS series of standards, handbooks and technical memoranda.
Scope and Purpose
This Technical Memorandum facilitates and promotes common data definitions and exchange among partner Agencies, European space industry and institutes, which are interested to collaborate on concurrent design, sharing analysis and design outputs and related reviews. This comprises a system decomposition up to any level and related standard lists of parameters and disciplines. Further it provides the starting point of the space system life cycle defining the parameter sets required to cover all project phases, although the present Technical Memorandum only addresses Phases 0 and A. This Technical Memorandum is intended to evolve into an ECSS Standard in the future. In conjunction with related development and validation activities, this Technical Memorandum should be regarded as a mechanism for reaching consensus prior to building the standard itself.
The Technical Memorandum provides the basis for creating interoperable Concurrent Design (CD) centers across the European space community. Allowing semantically consistent data exchange between CD centers. Enabling and supporting joint real-time collaborative design activities involving multiple CD centers. The initial objective of the TM is thus to act as a reference for the creation of new CD centers or upgrade of existing ones.
Structure
ECSS-E-TM-10-25A comprises the following parts:
Clause 1: Scope
Clause 2: Normative references
Clause 3: Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
Clause 4: Background and concepts
Includes the description of the Space Engineering Information Model (SEIM), a conceptual data model for all information needed to conduct concurrent design sessions
Includes the description of the Space Engineering Reference Data Library (SERDL), an agreed collection of concurrent design organization roles, process concepts, disciplines and parameter types. These are predefined instances of SEIM concepts.
Clause 5: A list of requirements that two or more parties that want to exchange data for a concurrent design activity shall comply with.
Annex A: The formal definition of the Space Engineering Information Model (SEIM).
Annex B: The formal definition of the Space Engineering Reference Data Library (SERDL).
Annex C: The formal definition of the Web Services Interface and exchange file format.
Annex D: An informative description of margins and reference frames.
Software Implementations
Multiple software implementations of ECSS-E-TM-10-25A exist. These software implementations allow a team of engineers to collaborate on the design of a complex system such as a satellite, launcher, an oil rig or a building.
Open Concurrent Design Server (OCDS)
The Open Concurrent Design Server is a software package developed under a European Space Age |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBD%20%28TV%20network%29 | TBD (also referred to unofficially as TBD TV; branded on-air as TBD.) is an American digital multicast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group and operated by Jukin Media. Targeting millennial audiences, the network focuses on viral video and reality shows.
Background
The development of TBD is traced to a visit by Sinclair Broadcast Group management to the Santa Monica, California headquarters of the Tennis Channel in early 2016 (Sinclair purchased the cable network in January of that year). While touring Tennis Channel's main control room, company executives spotted a monitor carrying the foreign feed of The QYOU, a Dublin-based digital media company and online video service headed by co-founders Curt Marvis and Scott Ehrlich, which curates various online video content aggregated from various producers for European audiences. Seeing the QYOU feed sparked a conversation among the executives about developing a similar service for television viewers in the United States, which Sinclair proceeded to bring to concept.
History
The company formally announced the planned launch of TBD on December 7, 2016. TBD is the third of four digital broadcast networks that Sinclair has developed and launched during the 2010s: it previously launched the sports-focused American Sports Network in August 2014 (which rebranded to Stadium in 2017), and science fiction-focused network Comet in October 2015, and around the time of the TBD announcement, it also disclosed plans to launch action-adventure network Charge!, a joint venture with Comet partner MGM Television that debuted on February 28, 2017 (since January 2016, Sinclair has also operated a 24-hour feed of the Stadium network, which is otherwise structured as an ad hoc syndication service aired on an event-driven basis on either the primary channel or subchannel of carrier stations that maintain a conventional entertainment format). To assemble programming and help provide creative support for TBD, Sinclair has retained the services of The QYOU, marking the first venture into advertiser-supported broadcast television for the company, which already operates a pay television service in Europe; The QYOU has not ruled out developing a similar subscription television service in the U.S. or ad-supported networks modeled after TBD in other countries.
In its press release announcing TBD's launch, Sinclair expressed that the network would be "reinvigorating traditional television for today's millennial audience", a demographic cohort that tends to enjoy video content via online sources other than traditional broadcast or cable television, although some within the demographic do supplement online content with over-the-air television. The network's more contemporary programming (digital-first series and videos) and younger-skewing target audience makes TBD unique in comparison to many other digital multicast networks that feature classic television programs and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20Calls%20Australia | Murder Calls Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first screened on the Nine Network on 15 February 2017 hosted by Leila McKinnon. This series reveals murder cases which were solved through crucial phone calls which put the killers behind bars. It features calls from witnesses, the public, the perpetrators, even victims beyond the grave.
Episodes
See also
List of Australian television series
Crime Investigation Australia
Murder Uncovered
Crime in Australia
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
Australian non-fiction television series
2010s Australian crime television series
2017 Australian television series debuts
Television series by Screentime
2017 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I24%20News%20%28American%20TV%20channel%29 | i24NEWS is an English language international news television channel owned by Altice USA. It is the English version of i24NEWS. The network began broadcasting in the US on February 13, 2017. It is live from 6 to 10p.m. Eastern Time and at other times broadcasts from Israel.
History
Original English channel
The original channel went live on 17 July 2013. Franck Melloul, the CEO, stated that it would battle prejudice and ignorance about Israel with “facts and diversity.”
Arab Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish was the lead anchor of the original English-language branch of the channel from July 2013 until she resigned in January 2016. Her show, The News Today, was replaced by News Now with Merav Savir. News Now was cancelled after only a few months of broadcasting, ahead of changes to the network.
On 8 December 2016, all programming on the English channel officially ended in preparation for launching in America. The channel broadcast 10 minutes of news on the hour, from 8am to 11pm (local time), and replaced Morning Edition, The Daily Beat, and The Lineup with a 26-minute news bulletin, repeated at half past each hour.
Current English channel
The launch of i24NEWS in the United States was announced on January 27, 2017. The channel is operated out of its headquarters in Jaffa.
Live programming is broadcast from Times Square in New York City, with an additional bureau in Washington, DC. Approximately 50 journalists were hired to staff the two locations. The channel uses resources from its Jaffa headquarters.
Initial distribution is limited to Altice USA-owned Optimum and Suddenlink cable systems. In November 2017, Spectrum began to roll out the channel nationwide. December 2019, it was added to AT&T U-Verse on channels 223 and 1223.
Among the first journalists hired were Michelle Makori, who is also the Editor-in-Chief, David Shuster, who is also the managing editor, and Dan Raviv, a veteran of over 40 years with CBS News. The channel acquired many of its initial behind-the-scenes personnel from the former Al Jazeera America channel.
News Team
Michelle Makori – Host of ClearCut and Crossroads
Michael Shure – National correspondent and fill in host
David Shuster – Host of Stateside and Crossroads
Programming
i24NEWS DESK, previously called The News, a 10-minute news bulletin (occasionally 26 minutes) at the top of the hour and half past
Daily Dose
Perspectives
The Rundown
Debrief
Crossroads
ClearCut
Stateside
References
External links
24-hour television news channels in the United States
English-language television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2017
Altice USA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Jordi%20Awards | The Sant Jordi Awards (; ) are film prizes awarded annually by the Catalan branch of the Spanish public radio network Radio Nacional de España (RNE), Ràdio 4. The awards were established in 1957.
Awards are made in the following categories: Best Debut Feature Film, Best Spanish Film, Best Actress in a Spanish Film, Best Actor in a Spanish Film, Best Foreign Film, Best Actress in a Foreign Film, Best Actor in a Foreign Film, Special Jury Prize, Film Industry Prize, RNE Critics' Prize.
Best Spanish Film
References
External links
Official website
Spanish film awards
Catalan culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-spring-damper%20model | The mass-spring-damper model consists of discrete mass nodes distributed throughout an object and interconnected via a network of springs and dampers. This model is well-suited for modelling object with complex material properties such as nonlinearity and viscoelasticity.
Packages such as MATLAB may be used to run simulations of such models. As well as engineering simulation, these systems have applications in computer graphics and computer animation.
Derivation (Single Mass)
Deriving the equations of motion for this model is usually done by examining the sum of forces on the mass:
By rearranging this equation, we can derive the standard form:
where
is the undamped natural frequency and is the damping ratio. The homogeneous equation for the mass spring system is:
This has the solution:
If then is negative, meaning the square root will be negative the solution will have an oscillatory component.
See also
Numerical methods
Soft body dynamics#Spring/mass models
Finite element analysis
References
Classical mechanics
Mechanical vibrations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCSD%20%28disambiguation%29 | NCSD may refer to:
National Cyber Security Division
Nassau County School District - Florida
Nenana City School District - Nenana, Alaska
Novi Community School District - Novi, Michigan
North Carolina School for the Deaf - Morganton, North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ND812 | The 12-bit ND812, produced by Nuclear Data, Inc., was a commercial minicomputer developed for the scientific computing market.
Nuclear Data introduced it in 1970 at a price under $10,000 ().
Description
The architecture has a simple programmed I/O bus, plus a DMA channel.
The programmed I/O bus typically runs low to medium-speed peripherals, such as printers,
teletypes, paper tape punches and readers, while DMA is used for cathode ray tube
screens with a light pen, analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters,
tape drives, disk drives.
The word size, 12 bits, is large enough to handle unsigned integers from 0 to 4095 –
wide enough for controlling simple machinery. This is also enough to handle signed numbers from -2048 to +2047.
This is higher precision than a slide rule or most analog computers. Twelve bits could also store two
six-bit characters (note, six-bit isn't enough for two cases, unlike "fuller" ASCII
character set). "ND Code" was one such 6-bit character encoding that included upper-case alphabetic, digit,
a subset of punctuation and a few control characters.
The ND812's basic configuration has a main memory of 4,096 twelve-bit words
with a 2 microsecond cycle time. Memory is expandable to 16K words in 4K word increments. Bits within the word
are numbered from most significant bit (bit 11) to
least significant bit (bit 0).
The programming model consists of four accumulator registers: two main accumulators, J and K,
and two sub accumulators, R and S. A rich set of arithmetic and logical operations are provided for the
main accumulators and instructions are provided to exchange data between the main and sub accumulators.
Conditional execution is provided through "skip" instructions. A condition is tested and the subsequent
instruction is either executed or skipped depending on the result of the test. The subsequent instruction
is usually a jump instruction when more than one instruction is needed for the case where the test fails.
Input/Output
The I/O facilities include programmable interrupts with 4-levels of priority that can trap to any location in
the first 4K words of memory. I/O can transmit 12 or 24 bits, receive 12 or 24 bits, or transmit and receive
12 bits in a cycle. I/O instructions include 4 bits for creating pulses for peripheral control. I/O peripherals
can be attached via 76 signal connector that allows for direct memory access by peripherals.
DMA is accomplished by "cycle stealing" from the CPU to store words directly into
the core memory system.
Nuclear Data provided interfaces to the following peripherals:
Bulk storage devices
Diablo Model 31 standard density disk cartridge
Diablo Model 31 high density disk cartridge
EDP fixed-head disk models 3008, 3016, 3032, 3064, or 3120
Magnetic tape I/O devices
Magnetic cassette tape
PEC 7-track magnetic tape
PEC 9-track magnetic tape
Paper tape I/O devices
Superior Electric Model TRP125-5 photoelectric tape reader (125 char/sec)
Dataterm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemaphysalis%20cuspidata | Haemaphysalis cuspidata is a hard-bodied tick of the genus Haemaphysalis. It is found in India and Sri Lanka. It is a potential vector of Kyasanur Forest disease virus.
Parasitism
Adults parasitize various wild and domestic animals such as jackals, mouse deer, leopards, black naped hare, rats, Paradoxurus civets, mongooses, coucals, many birds, shrews and even humans. Larva and nymphs are parasites of porcupines, civets, jungle fowls, many robin species, shrews, hornbills, macaques, langurs, cattle and buffaloes.
References
External links
Life history of Haemaphysalis cuspidata Warburton, 1910 (Acarina: Ixodidae) 1977
Ticks
Ixodidae
Animals described in 1910 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Red%20Puerto%20Rico | TV Red de Puerto Rico, Inc. is a local owner of low-power television stations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These stations carry programming from religious broadcaster La Cadena del Milagro Internacional. Headquartered in San Juan, TV Red is one of the largest station groups in Puerto Rico in terms of numbers of stations owned.
Television stations
These stations are licensed to TV Red de Puerto Rico, Inc.
External links
Companies based in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Digital television in the United States
Television broadcasting companies of the United States
2009 establishments in Puerto Rico
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television in Puerto Rico
Christianity in Puerto Rico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective%20Media%20Group | Objective Media Group (OMG), previously known as Objective Productions, is a media company that produces entertainment, factual entertainment, reality, factual and scripted programming. It has produced shows including The Cube, Lingo, The Gold, Feel Good, Peep Show, Fresh Meat, and Toast of London. The company has offices in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Scotland and Los Angeles, California.
Objective has won a number of awards including BAFTA, RTS Awards, British Comedy Awards, Rose d'Or, Monte Carlo Golden Nymphs and the South Bank Show.
History
Objective Productions was founded in 1991 as Objective Productions by Andrew O'Connor.
On 15 August 2007, British independent powerhouse group All3Media has acquired Objective Productions in order to expand its TV production and distribution.
On 24 September 2015, Objective announced that they would go a creative restructure.
On 17 December 2015, Objective has announced that they had launched a factual entertainment label with Deborah Sargeant in which it was named Second Star Productions. But on 22 April 2022, after the departure of Deborah Sargeant, the founder of Second Star Productions, Objective Media Group has folded Second Star into Betty TV.
On 6 January 2016, Objective had joined forces with Moira Ross to launch entertainment label Panda Television.
On 18 January 2023, Objective and its parent company All3Media announced that they have sold producer Main Event Media which was founded by Jimmy Fox in 2017 to Religion of Sports in an exclusive production deal with the latter now being a production arm under the former.
Companies
Part of All3media, Objective Media Group is led by Layla Smith and is composed of the following companies:
Betty A joint-venture with All3media
Objective Fiction (scripted comedies and comedy-dramas)
Tannadice Pictures (joint venture with Neil Forsyth)
OMG America (Los Angeles, California, American division)
OMG North/Purple Productions (Manchester, England, run by Pam Cavannagh and Dympna Jackson)
OMG Scotland (Glasgow, nations hub)
Triple Brew Media (big-scale studio shows, both live and recorded, quiz and gameshow programming)
141 Productions
Canard
Main Event Media
Current productions
The Larkins (2021 TV series)
The Cube
Lingo
Witless
The Answer Trap
Stupid Man, Smart Phone
GameFace
Toast of London
Britain Today Tonight
Now You See It
It Was Alright in the 70s
United Shades of America
Is OJ Innocent? The Missing Evidence
The Arrangement
Past productions
The Quick Trick Show
The Incredible Mr. Goodwin
Peep Show
Tom and Jenny
Mother of Invention
Doorstep Crime 999
Tricks of the Tradesmen
Secret Removers
Big Bad World
Fresh Meat
Reflex
Celebrity Bedlam
Killer Magic
The Real Hustle
Extreme Cuisine (formerly ‘Gastronuts’)
Police Academy UK
Help my Teacher is Magic
Tricks of the Tradesmen
Kabadasses (Comedy Lab)
Star Stories
The Kevin Bishop Show
Don't Get Screwed
Science of Attraction
Tool Academy UK
Reggie Perrin
Derre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Security%20Innovation%20Network | The National Security Innovation Network (previously named the MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) program office under the Defense Innovation Unit that seeks to create new communities of innovators to solve national security problems. NSIN partners with national research universities and the venture community to reinvigorate civil-military technology collaboration. As opposed to making investments in specific technologies, government research and development programs, or startups, NSIN focuses on human capital innovation - i.e., developing and enabling innovators and human-centered networks to solve national security problems. In support of this mission, NSIN provides tools, training, and access to DoD assets that enable entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to develop and commercialize high potential products in the national interest.
History
First conceived in 2015, MD5 launched on October 14, 2016 and was part of the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy. MD5 was formed in partnership with the National Defense University at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C. As of 2018, its headquarters was in Arlington, VA.
Adam “Jay” Harrison, former founder and managing director of Mav6 LLC, served as the inaugural director of MD5 from October 2016 until January 2018. The current managing director is Morgan Plummer.
On May 6, 2019, the program was renamed from MD5 to NSIN as part of a reorganization in which it was transferred from being directly under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) into the Defense Innovation Unit.
In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, NSIN held the hackathons online and started with "Seeing into the Unknown: Situational Awareness in Dense Urban Environments.” More than 200 people signed up and submitted 44 concepts, 5 finalists went on to continue developing their solutions.
Structure
NSIN consists of a portfolio of programs designed to build a defense innovation workforce that creates ventures relevant to both national security and high-potential civilian applications. These programs are organized in three broad categories: national service, collaboration, and acceleration.
NSIN's Collaboration portfolio connects innovators inside and outside of the Department of Defense to solve national security problems. Hacking for Defense, a university-sponsored class that teaches students to work with the DoD to better address national security challenges, was first taught at Stanford University by Steve Blank in the spring of 2016. One team from the pilot class, Capella Space, secured a combination of DoD and venture capital funding and was scheduled to send the first U.S. commercial synthetic radar satellite into orbit in 2017. Since then, Hacking for Defense has expanded to the University of Virginia, UC San Diego, Georgetown University, University of Pittsburgh, James Madison Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Vincent%27s%20Plaza%20tram%20stop | St Vincent's Plaza is a major interchange of the Melbourne tram network, serviced by Yarra Trams routes 11, 12, 30 and 109. It is located in the wide centre median of Victoria Parade, wedged between the intersections of Gisborne Street and Brunswick Street.
The interchange was one of Melbourne's first level access superstops to be constructed, opening on 24 July 2002 as part of the 'Tram 109' project. It is named after the adjacent St Vincent's Hospital. The previous tram stop at this location before the upgrade was known as the Brunswick Street Interchange or the City – Brunswick Street terminus for route 30, which continues to terminate at St Vincent's Plaza .
Routes
St Vincent's Plaza is utilised by four of Melbourne's tram routes:
: West Preston to Victoria Harbour Docklands
: Victoria Gardens to St Kilda
: St Vincent's Plaza to Central Pier
: Box Hill to Port Melbourne
It was previously serviced by discontinued routes 24, 31 and 112.
References
East Melbourne, Victoria
Tram stops in Melbourne
Transport in the City of Melbourne (LGA)
Transport infrastructure completed in 2002
2002 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20history | Computational History (not to be confused with computation history), sometimes also called Histoinformatics, is a multidisciplinary field that studies history through machine learning and other data-driven, computational approaches.
See also
References
Historiography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne%20N%C3%B8hr%20Larsen | Marianne Nøhr Larsen (born 1963) is a Danish anthropologist and writer who since 2002 has run the networking facility "Center for Interkulturel dialog" (Centre for Intercultural Dialogue) in Copenhagen.
Biography
Born on 26 March 1963, after matriculating from Helsingør Gymnasium, Nøhr Larsen studied anthropology at the University of Copenhagen graduating in 1995. Since 2002, she has headed the Copenhagen networking consultancy "Center for Interkulturel Dialog" where she has arranged courses and workshops on intercultural dialogue. In particular, she has helped Greenlanders and Muslims adapt to life in Denmark. In regard to Muslim women, she has worked on problems associated with arranged marriages and wearing headscarves. She has spoken out against the efforts of the Danish authorities to force the Danish way of life on ethnic minorities: "The more you force them to act in a given way, the more they'll fight against it." Nøhr Larsen has also written about the difficulty experienced by homosexuals belonging to ethnic minorities.
Selected publications
Nøhr Larsen has published a considerable number of books and papers including:
References
1963 births
Living people
Danish anthropologists
Danish women anthropologists
20th-century Danish non-fiction writers
21st-century Danish non-fiction writers
21st-century Danish women writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visabio | Visabio is the French Government system for tracking applicants to its national visa system. It stores biometric data including fingerprints and photographs. Visabio is connected to the European Visa Information System (VIS), though Visabio has also been described as "the French segment of VIS." Customs officers in France use Visabio.
Data volume
In 2007, it was estimated that the data of two million people would be added to the system each year, as all applications for a French visa would be entered into the system. Only children younger than 6 months would be exempted.
Efficacy of Visabio
The perpetrator of the 2017 Paris machete attack was identified after a Visabio search, stated François Molins, the chief prosecutor of Paris.
Legal Basis
The program arises from French national law Nr. 2003-1119 of 26 November 2003, also called "Sarkozy Law I," but officially entitled law of «Control of immigration, residence of foreigners in France, and nationality.»
References
External links
Mintang Visa Agency
Biometric databases
Fingerprints
Immigration to France
Visa policies in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changhua%E2%80%93Kaohsiung%20Viaduct | The Changhua–Kaohsiung Viaduct () is the world's second longest bridge. The bridge acts as a viaduct for part of the railway line of the Taiwan High Speed Rail network. Over 200 million passengers had been carried over it by December 2012.
Location
The viaduct starts in Baguashan (八卦山) in Changhua County and ends in Zuoying in Kaohsiung.
Changhua, Yunlin, Chiayi, and Tainan stations are Iocated on this viaduct.
Design
Completed in 2004, the bridge is in length. The railway is built across a vast series of viaducts, as they were designed to be earthquake resistant to allow for trains to stop safely during a seismic event and for repairable damage following a maximum design earthquake. Bridges built over known fault lines were designed to survive fault movements without catastrophic damage.
See also
List of longest bridges in the world
References
2007 establishments in Taiwan
Bridges completed in 2007
Railway bridges in Taiwan
Viaducts in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo%20Lipetz | Shlomo Lipetz (; born February 11, 1979) is an Israeli baseball player who pitches for Team Israel. He is also Vice President of Programming and music director at City Winery in New York City.
He was on the Israel national team for Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic. He also pitched for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of 2021. Lipetz pitched for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Early and personal life
Lipetz was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. His parents, Aharon and Debra Lipetz, are graduates of New York University. Lipetz has a brother, Gaby. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Baseball
Early years, college, and Israel Baseball League
Lipetz started playing baseball at an early age, having gotten hooked on the game in 1986 on a trip to New York in which he saw the New York Mets play. At age 10 he represented Israel at the Little League World Series preliminaries at the Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. He attended Ironi High School in Tel Aviv, Israel. There, he competed in baseball, basketball, soccer, and track.
While serving in the Israel Defense Forces, Lipetz received the "Outstanding Athlete" status allowing him to continue to train and compete while serving in the military.
Following his army service, Lipetz played baseball for San Diego Mesa College for two seasons. He walked on to the team and became the second native-born Israeli to play college baseball in the United States, after pitcher Dan Rothem. While in college, he improved his fastball from 66 mph to 88 mph.
Transferring to the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) his junior year on an athletic scholarship, he led the Tritons staff with a 2.84 ERA, and was 5–0 with 3 saves in 24 relief appearances; Lipetz walked just 3 in 38 innings. In 2005, the senior went 2–4 with 7 saves and a 4.42 ERA as UCSD's closer.
Following college, Lipetz continued his baseball career in New York in semipro leagues. He also played a short pro season in Mexico, and as a semi-pro in the independent Pedrin Zorrilla Baseball League in Brooklyn.
He played for the Netanya Tigers in the 2007 Israel Baseball League season. Lipetz led the league with a 0.98 ERA, while recording 30 strikeouts, and walking only three.
European Baseball Championship
In the 2010 European Baseball Championship qualifiers, in 2008, Lipetz led Team Israel in wins going 2–0 with a 2.63 ERA. Lipetz did not play during the first game, against Bulgaria. During the second game, Lipetz allowed three runs in a relief inning against Croatia. In the third game, against Serbia, Lipetz threw 2.2 innings in relief, giving up 1 earned run on 6 hits. During the fourth and final game, against Lithuania, Lipetz tossed a 10-inning, 4-hit complete game to beat Lithuania 2–1. He l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infogram | Infogram is a web-based data visualization and infographics platform, created in Riga, Latvia.
It allows people to make and share digital charts, infographics and maps. Infogram offers an intuitive WYSIWYG editor that converts users’ data into infographics that can be published, embedded or shared. Users do not need coding skills to use this tool; users include newsrooms, marketing teams, governments, educators and students.
The company that created Infogram, also called Infogram, was founded in 2012 in Riga, Latvia and has another office in San Francisco. As of October 2017, Infogram says it has 3 million users who have created charts and infographics that have been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.
Infogram was bought by Prezi, a web-based presentation software company, in May 2017.
History
Infogram was founded in February 2012 in Riga, Latvia by Uldis Leiterts, Raimonds Kaže and Alise Dīrika.
In January 2013, Infogram won the international Hy Berlin pitch contest. During his pitch, Infogram CEO Uldis Leiterts announced that the company had created more templates and was working with Microsoft to integrate its platform with the contemporaneous version of Microsoft Office.
The company also won the 2013 Kantar Information Is Beautiful Award, which “celebrates excellence and beauty in data visualizations, infographics, interactives & information art.”
In December 2014, Infogram acquired the Brazil-based data visualization blog, Visualoop.
In an effort to expand sales and marketing in the U.S., Infogram secured $1.8 million in funding in February 2014. The announcement was made at TechChill, a startup conference for the Baltics in Riga, Latvia. At the time, the funding was believed to be the largest to date for the company.
Infogram won the 2017 National Design Award of Latvia.
Acquisition by Prezi
Prezi, a web-based presentation software company, acquired Infogram in May 2017. Infogram is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Prezi.
Infogram was rated #1 on Forbes’ list of “The Best Infographic Tools for 2017,” which was published in September 2017.
In October 2017, Infogram announced a new version of its data visualization platform, including a drag-and-drop editor, over 40 new designer templates and social media support.
See also
Infogram examples
Infographics
Data visualization
Chart
Data-driven journalism
References
Latvian brands
Data visualization software
Graphics software
Collaborative software
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDDR6%20SDRAM | Graphics Double Data Rate 6 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (GDDR6 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous graphics random-access memory (SGRAM) with a high bandwidth, "double data rate" interface, designed for use in graphics cards, game consoles, and high-performance computing. It is a type of GDDR SDRAM (graphics DDR SDRAM), and is the successor to GDDR5. Just like GDDR5X it uses QDR (quad data rate) in reference to the write command clock (WCK) and ODR (Octal Data Rate) in reference to the command clock (CK).
Overview
The finalized specification was published by JEDEC in July 2017. GDDR6 offers increased per-pin bandwidth (up to 16 Gbit/s) and lower operating voltages (1.35 V), increasing performance and decreasing power consumption relative to GDDR5X.
Commercial implementation
At Hot Chips 2016, Samsung announced GDDR6 as the successor of GDDR5X. Samsung later announced that the first products would be 16 Gbit/s, 1.35 V chips. In January 2018, Samsung began mass production of 16Gb (2GB) GDDR6 chips, fabricated on a 10 nm class process and with a data rate of up to 18Gbit/s per pin.
In February 2017, Micron Technology announced it would release its own GDDR6 products by early 2018. Micron began mass production of 8Gb chips in June 2018.
SK Hynix announced its GDDR6 products would be released in early 2018. SK Hynix announced in April 2017 that its GDDR6 chips would be produced on a 21 nm process and be 10% lower voltage than GDDR5. The SK Hynix chips were expected to have a transfer rate of 1416 Gbit/s. The first graphics cards to use SK Hynix's GDDR6 RAM were expected to use 12 GB of RAM with a 384-bit memory bus, yielding a bandwidth of 768 GB/s. SK Hynix began mass production in February 2018, with 8Gbit chips and a data rate of 14Gbit/s per pin.
Nvidia officially announced the first consumer graphics cards using GDDR6, the Turing-based GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 & RTX 2070 on August 20, 2018, RTX 2060 on January 6, 2019 and GTX 1660 Ti on February 22, 2019. GDDR6 memory from Samsung Electronics is also used for the Turing-based Quadro RTX series. The RTX 20 series initially launched with Micron memory chips, before switching to Samsung chips by November 2018.
AMD officially announced the Radeon RX 5700, 5700 XT, and 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition on June 10, 2019. These Navi 10 GPUs utilize 8GB of GDDR6 memory.
GDDR6X
Micron developed GDDR6X in close collaboration with Nvidia. GDDR6X SGRAM had not been standardized by JEDEC yet. Nvidia is Micron's only GDDR6X launch partner. GDDR6X offers increased per-pin bandwidth between 19–21 Gbit/s with PAM4 signaling, allowing two bits per symbol to be transmitted and replacing earlier NRZ (non return to zero, PAM2) coding that provided only one bit per symbol, thereby limiting the per-pin bandwidth of GDDR6 to 16 Gbit/s. The first graphics cards to use GDDR6X are the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards. PAM4 signalling is not new but it costs more to implement, partly be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disodium%20helide | Disodium helide (Na2He) is a compound of helium and sodium that is stable at high pressures above . It was first predicted using the USPEX crystal structure prediction algorithm and then synthesised in 2016.
Synthesis
Na2He was predicted to be thermodynamically stable over 160 GPa and dynamically stable over 100 GPa. This means it should be possible to form at the higher pressure and then decompress to 100 GPa, but below that it would decompose. Compared with other binary compounds of other elements and helium, it was predicted to be stable at the lowest pressure of any such combination. This also means, for example, that a helium-potassium compound is predicted to require much higher pressures of the order of terapascals.
The material was synthesized by putting tiny plates of sodium in a diamond anvil cell along with helium at 1600 bar and then compressing to 130 GPa and heating to 1,500 K with a laser. Disodium helide is predicted to be an insulator and transparent. At 200 GPa the sodium atoms have a Bader charge of +0.599, the helium charge is −0.174, and the two-electron spots are each near −0.511. This phase could be called disodium helium electride. Disodium helide melts at a high temperature near 1,500 K, much higher than the melting point of sodium. When decompressed, it can keep its form as low as 113 GPa. As pressure increases, the sodium is predicted to gain more positive charge, the helium to lose negative charge and the free electron density to increase. Energy is compensated by the relative shrinking of the helium atoms and the space for electrons.
Structure
Disodium helide has a cubic crystal structure, resembling that of fluorite. At 300 GPa the edge of a unit cell of the crystal has . Each unit cell contains four helium atoms on the centre of the cube faces and corners, and eight sodium atoms at coordinates halfway between the center and each corner. Double electrons (2e−) are positioned on each edge and the centre of the unit cell. Each pair of electrons is spin paired. The presence of these isolated electrons makes this an electride. The helium atoms do not participate in any bonding; however, the electron pairs can be considered as an eight-centre two-electron bond.
Footnotes
References
Sodium compounds
Helium compounds
Binary compounds
Substances discovered in the 2010s
Electrides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20C.%20Raymund | Edward Charles Raymund (August 26, 1928 – December 9, 2008) was an American businessman and the founder of Tech Data Corp.
Biography
Raymund was born to poor family on August 26, 1928 in Hollywood, California and raised in Los Angeles. He served in the Army Air Corps and attended the University of Southern California on the G.I. Bill. After school, he worked as an electronics manufacturer's representative in Southern California. He moved to Florida eight years later where he saw an opportunity due to the state's rapid growth; and in the 1960s, he was distributing high-volume sockets and capacitors. In 1974, he founded Tech Data which initially sold computer memory cassettes, floppy disks, and printer ribbons; and added monitors, printers, add-on cards, and eventually IBM PCs in the 1980s. In 1985, his son, Steven Raymund, became CEO. Raymund remained as chairman of Tech Data until 1991; thereafter he held the title of chairman emeritus.
Philanthropy
Raymund was a supporter of the Noble Vikings of Orange County Charity, Mission Hospital, St. Margaret's Episcopal School, the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, the San Juan Capistrano Historical Society, The Boys and Girls Club of San Juan Capistrano, the OJAI Museum of Art, Newport Sports Museum, the Defense Orientation Conference Association, and the USC Trojans football team.
Personal life
Raymund was married twice. His first wife was Annette Leah Raymund, who was Jewish. They had four children: Lena Raymund Rogachevky, Karen Raymund Marder, Suzanne Raymund Zigun, and Steve A. Raymund. His second wife was Tricia Madison; they had one child: Matthew Madison Raymund. He died on December 9, 2008 in Mission Viejo, California. Services were held at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in San Juan Capistrano, California. His son, Steve, served as CEO of Tech Data from 1986 until 2006.
His granddaughter is actress Monica Raymund.
References
American people of German descent
American business executives
American company founders
1928 births
2008 deaths
20th-century American Episcopalians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%2021%20%28MaK%29 | The second use of the TOPS classification Class 21 for locomotives used on the British railway network came through the use of a number of related diesel-hydraulic and diesel-electric locomotives procured following the opening of the Channel Tunnel. The total of 16 locomotives were obtained by two separate operators, with some used for freight, and others to propel service trains and as "Thunderbird" locomotives.
History
In the early 1980s, Maschinenbau Kiel introduced its MaK DE 1002 design of diesel-electric locomotive, which was chosen by Nederlandse Spoorwegen as the basis of its Class 6400 freight locomotive. In 1991, Eurotunnel procured five similar locomotives as its Class 0001, for use both to operate service trains through the Channel Tunnel and as rescue locomotives.
In 2005, Euro Cargo Rail (ECR) was formed as a freight operator in France by English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS). Its initial operations were carried out by a quartet of Vossloh G1206 diesel-hydraulic locomotives. Although these locomotives were intended for use in France, maintenance was planned to be carried out at EWS's depot at Dollands Moor, close to the Eurotunnel terminal at Cheriton. Because the locomotives would be operating on railways in Great Britain, they were allocated numbers in the TOPS system as Class 21. Two similar G1000 locomotives were procured in 2007.
In 2009, Eurotunnel's five locomotives were used extensively for rescue operations following severe snow. As a consequence, the company identified a need to have greater availability of these units, and so procured a pair of Class 6400 locomotives from DB Schenker Nederland in November 2010. At the same time, Eurotunnel registered its locomotives on TOPS - the superficial similarity to the ECR locomotives led to the Eurotunnel units also being assigned as Class 21. Eurotunnel acquired a further three secondhand units from the Netherlands in 2016.
Fleet details
References
21
Bo-Bo locomotives
MaK locomotives
Vossloh locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Great Britain
Standard gauge locomotives of France
Diesel-electric locomotives of France
Diesel-electric locomotives of Great Britain
Railway locomotives introduced in 1990
Railway locomotives introduced in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20Time%20Protocol%20Industry%20Profile | Industrial automation systems consisting of several distributed controllers need a precise synchronization for commands, events and process data.
For instance, motors for newspaper printing are synchronized within some 5 microseconds to ensure that the color pixels in the different cylinders come within 0.1 mm at a paper speed of some 20 m/s. Similar requirements exist in high-power semiconductors (e.g. for converting between AC and DC grids) and in drive-by-wire vehicles (e.g. cars with no mechanical steering wheel).
This synchronisation is provided by the communication network, in most cases Industrial Ethernet.
Many ad-hoc synchronization schemes exist, so IEEE published a standard Precision Time Protocol IEEE 1588 or "PTP", which allows sub-microsecond synchronization of clocks.
PTP is formulated generally, so concrete applications need a stricter profile. In particular, PTP does not specify how the clocks should operate when the network is duplicated for better resilience to failures.
The PTP Industrial Profile (PIP) is a standard of the IEC 62439-3 that specifies in its Annex C two Precision Time Protocol IEEE 1588 / IEC 61588 profiles, L3E2E and L2P2P, to synchronize network clocks with an accuracy of 1 μs and provide fault-tolerance against clock failures.
The IEC 62439-3 PTP profiles are applicable to most Industrial Ethernet networks, for synchronized drives, robotics, vehicular technology and other applications that require precise time distribution, not necessarily using redundant networks.
The IEC 62439-3 profile L2P2P has been adopted as IEC/IEEE 61850-9-3 by the power utility industry to support precise time stamping of voltage and current measurement for differential protection, wide area monitoring and protection, busbar protection and event recording.
The IEC 62439-3 PTP profiles can be used to ensure deterministic operation of critical functions in the automation system itself, for instance precise starting of tasks, resource reservation and deadline supervision.
The IEC 62439-3 Annexes belongs to the Parallel Redundancy Protocol and High-availability Seamless Redundancy standard suite for high availability automation networks. However, this specification also applies to networks that have no redundancy and do not use PRP or HSR.
Topology
The PIP relies on the IEEE 1588 topology, consisting of grandmaster clocks (GC), ordinary clocks (OC), boundary clocks (BC), transparent clocks (TC) and hybrid clocks (HC = TC&OC).
For redundancy, a PIP network contains several clocks that are master-capable. Normally, the best master clock ensures that only one grandmaster broadcasts the time.
In redundant networks, and especially in PRP, several masters can be active at the same time, the slave then chooses its master.
PIP Profiles and Annexes
IEC 62439-3 Annex A specifies how to attach clocks to duplicated networks paths and how to support simultaneously active redundant master clocks for all profiles.
IEC 62439-3 An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Mari%C3%A1nsk%C3%A9%20L%C3%A1zn%C4%9B | The Mariánské Lázně trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network in Mariánské Lázně, in the Czech Republic. The spa town located in the western part of the Czech Republic is one of the smallest towns in the world that still has an operating trolleybus system. It was established as a replacement for older no longer adequate tram system and went into operation on 27 April 1952, when Mariánské Lázně was in Czechoslovakia. The very first vehicles to operate the newly established network were Škoda 7Tr. Since 2006 the public transport in Mariánské Lázně is operated by Městská Doprava Mariánské Lázně s. r. o. company.
The new trolleybus system not only connected railway station with the city centre, which a tram line trolleybuses replaced did as well, but also extended the operation to other town areas. Over the years the reach of the network extended practically to all directions connecting all major parts of the town. At its peak size, the system served the following terminus stations: "Antoníčkův pramen", "Panská pole", "Goethovo náměstí", "City Service", "Velká Hleďsebe" and "Lesní pramen". However, the service to Lesní pramen was suspended from 1979 to 1986 and then finally ended in 1996. The remaining trolleybus wires in this section were removed in 2012.
Trolleybus lines in operation
There are currently 4 trolleybus lines in operation in Mariánské Lázně. Lines 6 and 7 require hybrid (currently diesel/electric) trolleybuses to service small parts of the network not-equipped with overhead wires.
Post Velvet Revolution history
Since the fall of the communism in 1989 the system had to deal with under-maintenance and a few attempts to close the system. Thanks to two waves of last-minute support, first in 2004-2006 and the second one since 2017 lasting up until now, the system persisted up until today.
Late 90s and early 2000s
Since the second half of 1990s the town's council tried to get rid of the trolleybus network claiming high maintenance costs. The fact the network was under-maintained and the vehicles were old did not make the situation any better. However, thanks to strong citizen reactions against the removal of such network it was finally decided to purchase new trolleybuses. In between the years 2004 and 2006 seven new Škoda 24tr vehicles were purchased, partially using EU funds.
One of the Škoda 24Tr vehicles was a prototype and started its service in 2004 after which all the other newer trolleybuses started appearing in the town. Another was initially designed for Zlín, but as it caught fire while transported to Zlín the public transport company there decided to reject this vehicle. However it was repaired by Škoda Transportation and was later in operation in Mariánské Lázně with an unusual colour combination. Three of 7 Škoda 24Tr units were equipped with a diesel generator to extend the trolleybus network reach.
2012
Since 2012 only 2 older Škoda 14Tr vehicles remained as a backup. However another Škoda 14TrM ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Smith%20%28economist%29 | Gary Nance Smith (born 1945) is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. His research on financial markets statistical reasoning, and artificial intelligence, often involves stock market anomalies, statistical fallacies, and the misuse of data have been widely cited.
Early history and education
Smith earned his B. S. in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and enrolled in Yale University’s graduate economics program. After taking classes from James Tobin and William Brainard, he decided to focus on macroeconomics. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1971 and was hired as an assistant professor. In a demonstration of the law of comparative advantage, Smith taught the first-year graduate course in macroeconomics while Tobin taught the first-year graduate course in microeconomics.
The economics department polled students about what courses they would like added to the curriculum and the runaway winners were Marx and the stock market. Smith wasn’t interested in Marx, but the chair of his thesis committee was Tobin, who would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, in part for his analysis of financial markets. So, Smith volunteered to create a stock market course and asked Tobin to recommend a textbook. His immediate answer was John Burr Williams’ The Theory of Investment Value, which had been published more than 30 years earlier, in 1938, and was not really a textbook. It was Williams’ Ph.D. thesis and had been rejected by several publishers for being overly academic (it had algebraic symbols!). Harvard University Press published it, but Williams had to pay part of the printing cost himself.
This stock-market course pulled Smith away from macroeconomics towards finance, and the use and misuse of statistics in finance pulled Smith towards a lifelong interest in the abuse of data and statistical analysis.
Tobin once wryly observed that the bad old days when researchers had to do calculations by hand were actually a blessing. In today's language, it was a feature, not a flaw. The calculations were so hard that people thought hard before they calculated. Today, with terabytes of data and lightning-fast computers, it is too easy to calculate first, think later. Smith argues that it is better to think hard before calculating.
Notable contributions
The Housing Market
Smith has been a lifelong proponent of value investing, buying stocks based on the cash they generate, instead of trying to predict short-term movements in stock prices. The same principles apply to real estate. From a financial standpoint, the decision to buy a house should be based on the cash flow—the rental savings minus the mortgage payments, property taxes, and other expenses associated with home ownership—not guesses about future home prices. All real estate is local, so the answer to the question of whether a house is a good financial investment varies from place to place.
A widely cited Brookings paper, co-authored with his wife Margaret H. Smith, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W200 | W200 may refer to:
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W200, a point-and-shoot digital camera released in 2007
Sony Ericsson W200, a cellphone released in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Network%20%28disambiguation%29 | Paramount Network is an American basic cable television channel.
Paramount Network may also refer to:
Paramount Network (international), a brand of international channels that were previously known as Paramount Channel, and are currently broadcast in some countries in Latin America, in Europe and in Asia-Pacific.
Paramount Television Network, a short-lived ad-hoc television network operated by Paramount from 1948 to 1956
Paramount Television Service, a proposed but unrealized network which was scheduled to launch in 1978
United Paramount Network, which operated from 1995 to 2006 (and which briefly planned a name change to Paramount Network in 2000)
Paramount Network (Spain), a Spanish version of Paramount Network launched in June 2018 that was originally the first incarnation of the Paramount Channel
Paramount Network (UK), the British equivalent of Paramount Network which launched in July 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konzen | Konzen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Joel Matthias Konzen (born 1950), American Roman Catholic bishop
Neil Konzen, American computer specialist
Pedro Henrique Konzen (born 1990), Brazilian football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYTL-TV | DYTL-TV, channel 2, founded 1978, was a television station of Philippine television network People's Television Network. Its studio is located at Lacson Street, Mandalagan, Bacolod City.
See also
People's Television Network
Television channels and stations established in 1978
People's Television Network stations
Television stations in Bacolod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance%20capitalism | Surveillance capitalism is a concept in political economics which denotes the widespread collection and commodification of personal data by corporations. This phenomenon is distinct from government surveillance, though the two can reinforce each other. The concept of surveillance capitalism, as described by Shoshana Zuboff, is driven by a profit-making incentive, and arose as advertising companies, led by Google's AdWords, saw the possibilities of using personal data to target consumers more precisely.
Increased data collection may have various advantages for individuals and society such as self-optimization (Quantified Self), societal optimizations (such as by smart cities) and optimized services (including various web applications). However, as capitalism has become focused on expanding the proportion of social life that is open to data collection and data processing, these may come with significant implications for vulnerability and control of society as well as for privacy.
Economic pressures of capitalism are driving the intensification of connection and monitoring online with spaces of social life becoming open to saturation by corporate actors, directed at the making of profit and/or the regulation of action. Therefore, personal data points increased in value after the possibilities of targeted advertising were known. Consequently, the increasing price of data has limited accessibility to the purchase of personal data points to the richest in society.
Background
Shoshana Zuboff writes that "analysing massive data sets began as a way to reduce uncertainty by discovering the probabilities of future patterns in the behavior of people and systems". In 2014 Vincent Mosco referred to the marketing of information about customers and subscribers to advertisers as surveillance capitalism and makes note of the surveillance state alongside it. Christian Fuchs found that the surveillance state fuses with surveillance capitalism. Similarly, Zuboff informs that the issue is further complicated by highly invisible collaborative arrangements with state security apparatuses. According to Trebor Scholz, companies recruit people as informants for this type of capitalism. Zuboff contrasts mass production of industrial capitalism with surveillance capitalism with the former being interdependent with its populations who were its consumers and employees and the latter preying on dependent populations who are neither its consumers nor its employees and largely ignorant of its procedures. Their research is demonstrating that the capitalist addition to analysing massive data sets has given its beginning purpose an unexpected turn. Surveillance has been changing power structures in the information economy, potentially shifting the balance of power further from nation-states and towards large corporations employing the surveillance capitalist logic
Zuboff notes that surveillance capitalism reaches beyond the conventional institutional terrain of the private firm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WODK-LD | WODK-LD (channel 45) is a low-power television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned by Innovate Corp. alongside KPTN-LD and KBGU-LD. WODK-LD's transmitter is located near Shrewsbury, Missouri.
History
The station's construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 25, 2010, under the calls of W45DK-D. At that time, the station was licensed to Springfield, Illinois. The current WODK-LD callsign was adopted on March 28, 2016.
DTV America relocated the station to the St. Louis area in late 2016, although it was not licensed to serve St. Louis until January 5, 2021. It then signed on in December 2016 as the area's Cozi TV affiliate. By January 2017, the station has been broadcasting seven subchannels, including bringing Decades, Heroes & Icons, the American Sports Network, Tuff TV, and AMGTV to the St. Louis market. With that, a total of 14 subchannels are offered over both of DTV America-owned stations in St. Louis, including those of sister station KBGU-LP. At the start of 2018, WODK-LD lost its H&I, Decades and Movies! subchannels; the owner of those networks, Weigel Broadcasting, purchased KNLC (channel 24) in December 2017, and took control of the local rights to those networks unilaterally, replacing WODK-LD.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
Low-power television stations in Missouri
Innovate Corp.
Telemundo network affiliates
2016 establishments in Missouri
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Television stations in St. Louis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel%20dressing | Hydrogels are three-dimensional networks consisting of chemically or physically cross-linked hydrophilic polymers. The insoluble hydrophilic structures absorb polar wound exudates and allow oxygen diffusion at the wound bed to accelerate healing. Hydrogel dressings can be designed to prevent bacterial infection, retain moisture, promote optimum adhesion to tissues, and satisfy the basic requirements of biocompatibility. Hydrogel dressings can also be designed to respond to changes in the microenvironment at the wound bed. Hydrogel dressings should promote an appropriate microenvironment for angiogenesis, recruitment of fibroblasts, and cellular proliferation.
Hydrogels respond elastically to applied stress; gels made from materials like collagen exhibit high toughness and low sliding friction, reducing damage from mechanical stress. Hydrogel dressings should possess mechanical and physical properties similar to the 3D microenvironment of the extracellular matrix of human skin. Hydrogel wound dressings are designed to have a mechanism for application and removal which minimizes further trauma to tissues.
Hydrogel dressings can be sorted into the categories: synthetic, natural, and hybrid. Synthetic hydrogel dressings have been produced using biomimetic extracellular matrix nanofibers such as polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). Self-assembling designer peptide hydrogels are another type of synthetic hydrogel in development. Natural hydrogel dressings are further subdivided into either polysaccharide-based (e.g. alginates) or proteoglycan- and/or protein-based (e.g. collagen). Hybrid hydrogel dressings incorporate synthetic nanoparticles and natural materials.
Characteristics
Chemical characteristics
Hydrogel dressings exhibit chemical or physical cross-linking. Chemical cross-linking involved formation of covalent bonds between polymer chains. Chemically cross-linked hydrogel dressings are synthesized by chain-growth polymerization, step-growth polymerization, enzymes, or irradiation polymerization. Synthetic dressings incorporating nanoparticles such as PVA and polyethylene glycol (PEG) are assembled using chemical cross-linking mechanisms. Physically cross-linked hydrogel dressings are assembled via ionic interaction, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interactions, or crystallization. Physically cross-linked hydrogels disintegrate due to local changes in pH, ionic strength, and temperature. Natural dressings incorporating polysaccharides and proteoglycans/proteins form a 3D network using physical cross-linking. Hydrogel dressings mimic the cross-linked 3D network of extracellular matrix fibers in human skin.
Hydrogels can be formed through a self-assembly process in which monomers diffuse in solution then form non covalent interactions. Hydrogels used in wound dressings can be self-assembled upon addition of divalent metal cations or electrically charged polysaccharides due to electrostatic interactions. Self-assembly via hydrophobic interactions can be i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agononida%20spinicordata | Agononida spinicordata is a species of squat lobster in the family Munididae. It is found off of the Fiji Islands, at a depth of about .
References
Squat lobsters
Crustaceans described in 1885 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubo | Yubo (formerly known as Yellow) is a French social networking app developed by TWELVE APP in 2015. It is designed to "meet new people" and "create a sense of community". The app had 60 million users as of 2022.
History
Yubo was created by Sacha Lazimi, Jérémie Aouate, and Arthur Patora when they were engineering students at CentraleSupélec Graduate school of the Paris-Saclay University and Télécom Paris. Formerly known as Yellow, it was first launched in 2015. According to the founders, the app seeks to create a space for "socializing online" and to "facilitate communication between people all over the world who share mutual interests."
In December 2019, the app raised $12.3 million (€11.2 million) in a funding round led by French private equity firms like Iris Capital, Idinvest Partners, Alven, Sweet Capital and Village Global. The funds will be used to develop its technology and expand its global user base.
Between 2015 and December 2019, app users have created an estimated 2 billion friendships, along with exchanging more than 10 billion messages and launching 30 million livestreams.
In 2019, the startup has generated $10 million in revenue.
In 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yubo recorded a significant rise in use due to quarantined teenagers, with a 550% increase in time spent in video discussion groups. During this period, Yubo doubled the number of new daily signups, which reached 30,000 per day in mid-April. As of October 2020, the app had 40 million users worldwide, 60% of whom are Americans and Canadians.
In September 2020, Yubo established its U.S. headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida. At the same time, Yubo opened a new office in London. In November 2020, Yubo carries out a new fundraising, raising $47.5 million (€40 million) from its historical investors and a new entrant, Gaia Capital Partner. The announced objective is in particular to strengthen moderation and develop the Asian market. In addition, Jerry Murdock, co-founder of Insight Partners who invested in Twitter and Snapchat, joined the board of directors of Yubo.
In December 2020, Yubo through its partnership with Snapchat, the AR lenses from the Snap Inc. camera kit were included directly in the app.
In November 2021, Yubo opened a second office in the U.S., in New York City.
Following the Robb Elementary School shooting on 24 May 2022 in Uvalde, Texas, the app came under criticism for failing to remove the perpetator's profile from their platform quickly, leaving the profile up for four days after the shooting. Multiple witnesses reported that Ramos boasted about purchasing a firearm and posted threatening messages weeks before the tragic event occurred.
In 2023, a tool operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and funded by Meta Platforms called "Take It Down" was released. The participating platforms including Yubo, OnlyFans, Facebook, Instagram and Pornhub agreed to remove non-consensual images or videos that users flag w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverland%20Pipeline | The Riverland Pipeline System is a natural gas transmission pipeline supplying gas to the Riverland region of South Australia. It is owned by Australian Gas Networks (formerly Envestra) and operated by the APA Group. The pipeline was built in 1995 by South Australian Gas Company and transferred to Envestra when it was privatised in 1997. The pipeline is a buried steel pipeline with nominal outside diameter of with wall thickness. The Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure is . Most of the pipe is buried to a depth of but it is deeper and has thicker walls in areas of high risk such as under road crossings.
The Riverland Pipeline is supplied by gas from the Angaston lateral on the Moomba Adelaide Pipeline System (MAPS). The main pipeline runs from Angaston to Berri in the Riverland with a lateral supply line branching near Sedan to Murray Bridge. Gas can also be delivered to Mildura vie the Mildura Pipeline connection at Berri.
The Riverland Pipeline was covered by the NGL under the Gas Code until 1999, but has not been subject to that regulation since 1999.
References
Natural gas pipelines in Australia
Energy in South Australia
Pipelines in South Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Row%20Features | First Row Features is an American anthology series that premiered on the television network Nickelodeon in February 1980 and continued to air until January 1982. It mainly carried British television films (mostly from the Children's Film Foundation) for children and family audiences, most of which were filmed in the 1950s–60s. It featured a claymation title sequence created in-house at Nickelodeon's temporary headquarters in Buffalo, New York. First Row Features was a predecessor to the similarly formatted Special Delivery, which debuted later in the same year and eventually replaced it.
Overview
The program featured made-for-TV films from the United Kingdom, which were selected by employees at Nickelodeon. In January 1982, the Gannett newspaper The Times described the show as a collection of "one hour feature films for children ranging from comedies and adventures to dramas and semi-documentaries." Although most of the content on First Row Features had been filmed and released in Europe decades earlier, the films were marketed as new to U.S. viewers. New films premiered on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. At the time of its creation, First Row Features was one of only five programs that were aired in a loop to fill the entire Nickelodeon schedule. It was non-commercial and advertisements were never played between features.
Films featured
See also
History of Nickelodeon
References
1980 American television series debuts
1982 American television series endings
1980s American children's television series
1980s Nickelodeon original programming
1980s American anthology television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon%20X-07 | Canon X-07 is one of the first personal computers available in France manufactured by Canon.
This is a laptop (or rather hand-held) based around the NSC800 (compatible with Z80) shipping Microsoft BASIC.
The specifications included:
memory extensions or independent IC card
parallel and serial port with an infrared extension X-721
X-711 thermal printer or plotter 4-color X-710 or standard // printer.
ROM card software (spreadsheet, monitor ...)
X-720 video interface for connection to a TV
save to cassette
Size: 30x30x11cm
References
Computing by computer model
Canon Inc.
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega%204%20%28TV%20series%29 | Vega 4 is an Australian science fiction television series which first screened on the ABC in 1968. It was later also screened on the Seven Network. Vega 4 is a spin-off of the 1966 series The Interpretaris. The third series in the trilogy was Phoenix Five in 1970.
Plot
A threat to Earth has been detected by Earth Space Control from Galaxy Five. When it is suggested that the spacecraft, the Interpretaris, should be sent on this mission, it is revealed that it is not equipped for travel to Galaxy Five. Therefore, the President orders the commissioning of an untested new spaceship the Vega 4, which is the only hope for Earth to survive.
Cast
John Faassen as Captain Wallace
Evan Dunstan as Lieutenant Adam
Juliana Allan as Ensign Poitier
Edward Hepple as Zodian
Ken Fraser as President
Philip Jay as Professor Kendrick
References
External links
Vega 4 at Australian television
Vega 4 at IMDb
Vega 4 at National Film and Sound Archive
Australian science fiction television series
Australian children's television series
1968 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows |
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The UAAP Season 79 seniors division football tournament started on February 4, 2017, following the shift in the start of the league at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila. Other games were held at the Moro Lorenzo Football Field of Ateneo de Manila University in Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Venues
Men's tournament
Elimination round
Team standing
Match-up results
Scores
First round
Second round
Playoffs
Bold = winner
* = after extra time, ( ) = penalty shootout score
Semifinals
Finals
Awards
Most Valuable Player: Jarvey Gayoso (Ateneo de Manila University)
Rookie of the Year: Jordan Jarvis (Ateneo de Manila University)
Best Striker: Jarvey Gayoso (Ateneo De Manila University)
Best Midfielder: Paolo Bugas (Far Eastern University)
Best Defender: Jeremiah Rocha (Ateneo de Manila University)
Best Goalkeeper: AJ Arcilla (Ateneo de Manila University)
Mythical Eleven
Goalkeeper: AJ Arcilla (Ateneo de Manila University)
Defenders: Jeremiah Rocha (Ateneo de Manila University), Noel Brago (De La Salle University), Jordan Jarvis (Ateneo de Manila University), Darryl Regala (University of Santo Tomas)
Midfielders: Paolo Bugas (Far Eastern University), Enzo Ceniza (Ateneo De Manila University), Julian Roxas (Ateneo De Manila University), Jed Diamante (De La Salle University)
Strikers: Jarvey Gayoso (Ateneo de Manila University), Rico Andes (Far Eastern University)
Women's tournament
Elimination round
Team standing
First round
Second round
Playoffs
Finals
Awards
Most Valuable Player: Kyla Inquig (De La Salle University)
Rookie of the Year: Mary Indac (University of Santo Tomas)
Best Striker: Kyra Dimaandal (De La Salle University)
Best Midfielder: Sara Castañeda (De La Salle University)
Best Defender: Regine Metillo (De La Salle University)
Best Goalkeeper: Inna Palacios (De La Salle University)
Mythical Eleven
Goalkeeper: Inna Palacios (De La Salle University)
Defenders: Regine Metillo (De La Salle University), Isay Sabio (Ateneo de Manila University), Ira Ilan (University of Santo Tomas), Mariel Tejada (De La Salle University)
Midfielders: Sara Castañeda (De La Salle University), Hazel Lustan (University of Santo Tomas), Irish Navaja (De La Salle University), Cam Rodriguez (Ateneo De Manila University)
Strikers: Kyra Dimaandal (De La Salle University), Charisa Lemoran (University of Santo Tomas)
Juniors' tournament
Elimination round
Team standing
Match-up results
Scores
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataOps | DataOps is a set of practices, processes and technologies that combines an integrated and process-oriented perspective on data with automation and methods from agile software engineering to improve quality, speed, and collaboration and promote a culture of continuous improvement in the area of data analytics. While DataOps began as a set of best practices, it has now matured to become a new and independent approach to data analytics. DataOps applies to the entire data lifecycle from data preparation to reporting, and recognizes the interconnected nature of the data analytics team and information technology operations.
DataOps incorporates the Agile methodology to shorten the cycle time of analytics development in alignment with business goals.
DevOps focuses on continuous delivery by leveraging on-demand IT resources and by automating test and deployment of software. This merging of software development and IT operations has improved velocity, quality, predictability and scale of software engineering and deployment. Borrowing methods from DevOps, DataOps seeks to bring these same improvements to data analytics.
DataOps utilizes statistical process control (SPC) to monitor and control the data analytics pipeline. With SPC in place, the data flowing through an operational system is constantly monitored and verified to be working. If an anomaly occurs, the data analytics team can be notified through an automated alert.
DataOps is not tied to a particular technology, architecture, tool, language or framework. Tools that support DataOps promote collaboration, orchestration, quality, security, access and ease of use.
History
DataOps was first introduced by Lenny Liebmann, Contributing Editor, InformationWeek, in a blog post on the IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub titled "3 reasons why DataOps is essential for big data success" on June 19, 2014. The term DataOps was later popularized by Andy Palmer of Tamr and Steph Locke. DataOps is a moniker for "Data Operations." 2017 was a significant year for DataOps with significant ecosystem development, analyst coverage, increased keyword searches, surveys, publications, and open source projects. Gartner named DataOps on the Hype Cycle for Data Management in 2018.
Goals and philosophy
The volume of data is forecast to grow at a rate of 32% CAGR to 180 Zettabytes by the year 2025 (Source: IDC). DataOps seeks to provide the tools, processes, and organizational structures to cope with this significant increase in data. Automation streamlines the daily demands of managing large integrated databases, freeing the data team to develop new analytics in a more efficient and effective way. DataOps seeks to increase velocity, reliability, and quality of data analytics. It emphasizes communication, collaboration, integration, automation, measurement and cooperation between data scientists, analysts, data/ETL (extract, transform, load) engineers, information technology (IT), and quality assurance/governance.
Impleme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20clump | In object-oriented programming, "data clump" is a name given to any group of variables which are passed around together (in a clump) throughout various parts of the program. A data clump, like other code smells, can indicate deeper problems with the program design or implementation. The group of variables that typically make up a data clump are often closely related or interdependent and are often used together in a group as a result. A data clump is also known as a specific kind of class-level code smell that may be a symptom of poorly written source code.
Refactoring data clumps
In general, data clumps should be refactored. The presence of data clumps typically indicates poor software design because it would be more appropriate to formally group the different variables together into a single object, and pass around only this object instead of the numerous primitives. Using an object to replace a data clump can reduce the overall code size as well as help the program code to remain better organized, easier to read, and easier to debug.
The process of removing data clumps runs the risk of creating a different type of code smell (a data class, which is a class that only stores data and does not have any methods for actually operating on the data); however, the creation of the class will encourage the programmer to see functionality that might be included here as well.
In object-oriented programming, the purpose of objects is to encapsulate both relevant data (fields) and operations (methods) that can be performed on this data. The failure to group fields together into a true object can discourage the association of relevant actions.
A long list of parameters/variables does not necessarily indicate a data clump; it is only when the various values here are intimately and logically related that their presence is considered a data clump. Although such cases are rare, it is possible for a method to legitimately take half a dozen or more completely unrelated parameters that could not be cleanly turned into a single object. This, however, suggests that the method is trying to do far too much and would be better broken into multiple methods, each of which is responsible for a smaller piece of the overall responsibility. This beckons as another opportunity for refactoring to be used in order to improve the quality of the code.
Refactoring to eliminate data clumps does not need to be done by hand. Many modern fully featured IDEs have functionality (often labeled as "Extract Class") that is capable of performing this refactoring automatically or nearly so. This can decrease the cost and improve the reliability of the refactoring, thus enabling otherwise reluctant developers to do so expediently.
Example
Naturally, data clumps can exist in any object-oriented programming language. The example below was chosen simply because of its simplicity in scope and syntax.
In C#
Prior to refactor
public void AddCoords(int x, int y, int z) { /* … */ }
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta.Numerics | Meta.Numerics is an open-source library for advanced scientific computing on the .NET platform. It provides an object-oriented API supporting advanced functions, matrix algebra, statistics, optimization, and other numerical algorithms.
History
Version 1.0 was released in April 2009. The current version 4.1.4 was released in August 2020. It has been used in academic research and software development. It is listed in the software index of the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
References
External links
Meta.Numerics Website
Meta.Numerics Project on GitHub
Meta.Numerics Project on CodePlex
Numerical software
C Sharp libraries
Software using the MS-PL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE%20Orbit | The ZTE Orbit (also known as the ZTE Render) is a budget smartphone developed by ZTE that runs Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.5 operating system. It was announced on February 27, 2012 and became available in September 2012. The Orbit is the first Windows Phone device to include near field communication. In late September 2012 it was announced a CDMA variant of the Orbit would also launch as the ZTE Render in the US on US Cellular.
Primary features
The primary features of the Orbit are:
4.0in 800x480 TFT touchscreen display with 233 PPI
5 MP primary camera
720p video recording
Near field communications (NFC)
Availability
The Orbit was announced at the Mobile World Congress in 2012 as ZTE's second Windows Phone after the ZTE Tania and launched in September 2012. It is targeted primarily at emerging markets as well as East Asia. The Orbit was also announced as one of the launch devices for the Windows Phone platform in China alongside the HTC Titan and a variant of the Nokia Lumia 800. In the United States the Orbit launched as a carrier exclusive on US Cellular as the ZTE Render where it was also eventually updated to Windows Phone 7.8.
Reception
The Orbit received mixed reviews upon its announcement and launch. Reviewers noted the relatively low price for the device and that it was targeted for emerging markets and for low cost no-contract sales in the developed world. The device was praised for its speed, build quality, aesthetic design, and the presence of NFC, however its thickness, touch screen quality, low brightness levels, and lack of apps that utilize NFC were areas of concern. Additionally, the device was compared to the Nokia Lumia 610 which launched as a direct competitor.
References
Orbit
Smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Windows Phone devices
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amateur%20radio%20software | This is a list of software for amateur radio.
Software tools
Logging Software
Operating systems
The Debian project maintains a pure blend that includes ham radio software. The HamBSD project is a variation of OpenBSD.
See also
Amateur radio station § Computer-control software
List of amateur radio modes
Software-defined radio
References
External links
DXZone Amateur Radio Software - An exhaustive directory of amateur radio software
Software
Software
Lists of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Charts | Google Charts is an interactive Web service that creates graphical charts from user-supplied information. The user supplies data and a formatting specification expressed in JavaScript embedded in a Web page; in response, the service sends an image of the chart.
See also
JavaScript framework
JavaScript library
External links
Spanish example
References
Charts
JavaScript visualization toolkits
Visualization API |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenKeychain | OpenKeychain is a free and open-source mobile app for the Android operating system that provides strong, user-based encryption which is compatible with the OpenPGP standard. This allows users to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify signatures for text, emails, and files. The app allows the user to store the public keys of other users with whom they interact, and to encrypt files such that only a specified user can decrypt them. In the same manner, if a file is received from another user and its public keys are saved, the receiver can verify the authenticity of that file and decrypt it if necessary. As of August 2021, it is no longer actively developed.
K-9 Mail Support
Together with K-9 Mail, it supports end-to-end encrypted emails via the OpenPGP INLINE and PGP/MIME formats. The developers of OpenKeychain and K-9 Mail are trying to change the way user interfaces for email encryption are designed. They propose to remove the ability to create encrypted-only emails and hide the case of signed-only emails. Instead, they focus on end-to-end security that provides confidentiality and authenticity by always encrypting and signing emails together.
Reception
OpenKeychain is listed on the official OpenPGP homepage and the well-known developer collective Guardian Project recommends it instead of APG to encrypt emails. TechRepublic published an article about it and conclude that "OpenKeychain happens to be one of the easiest encryption tools available for Android (that also happens to best follow OpenPGP standards)." The publisher Heise reviewed it in their c't Android magazine 2016 and discussed OpenKeychain's backup mechanism. The academic community uses OpenKeychain for experimental evaluations: It has been used as an example where cryptographic operations could be executed in a Trusted Execution Environment. Furthermore, modern alternatives for public key fingerprints have been implemented by other researchers. In 2016, the German Federal Office for Information Security published a study about OpenPGP on Android and evaluated OpenKeychain's functionality. OpenKeychain has been adapted to work with smartcards and NFC rings resulting in a usability study published on Ubicomp 2017.
Funding
The OpenKeychain developers participated in 3 Google Summer of Code programs with a total of 6 successful students. In 2015, one of the main developers got a one-year funding to improve the OpenPGP support in K-9 Mail paid by the Open Technology Fund.
History
OpenKeychain has been created as a fork of Android Privacy Guard (APG) in March 2012. Between December 2010 and October 2013 no new version of APG was released. Thus, OpenKeychain has been started with the intention of picking up the development to improve the user interface and API. A first version 2.0 has been released in January 2013. After three years without updates, APG merged back security fixes from OpenKeychain and some months later rebased an entire new version on OpenKeychain’s source code. However, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Practice%20Extraction%20Service | The General Practice Extraction Service (GPES or GP Extraction Service) was a British health service outcomes research computer database that collates statistical aggregated data (demographic cohorts) from individual medical records of GPs in England, for purposes independent of an individual's immediate health, such as public health research. It may conflict with sensitive medical confidentiality. It is similar to bioinformatics, epidemiology, and a health information exchange.
History
With advances in computing technology and databases, many more types of public health research, including time-consuming cohort studies, are now possible; sifting through health data is quicker. Medical conditions can be cross-referenced with lifestyle.
The GPES began in 2007. The NHS has not had a good record for computer systems. The NHS National Programme for IT, a complete digital overhaul of the NHS's medical records, became NHS Connecting for Health, and then partly by the Health and Social Care Information Centre; a lot of money was effectively lost on NHS Connecting for Health, sometimes quoted at £12 billion. GPES was meant to cost £14m but has cost £40m. The system was discussed by the Public Accounts Committee (United Kingdom) (PAC) in 2015, who said the system has begun five years later than planned, being planned to start in 2009.
During its usage period, the system supported national extracts for NHS England and Public Health England, that not only enabled payment for General Practices. But added to data sets around such areas as Learning Disabilities Observatory.
By 2018, the GPET-Q engine was already seen as unfit for use and was beginning to be deprecated, favoring a much simpler system built in house at NHS Digital. Numerous fails of standard Disaster Recovery tests, showed that GPET-Q was becoming further unstable.
By 2020, GPET-Q had been entirely retired, yet NHS Digital continue to receive requests for data extracts that are fulfilled by NHS Digital. The General Practice Data for Planning and Research initiative, announced in May 2021, is intended to replace it.
Function
The purpose of the GPES is not dissimilar to the Office for National Statistics in how it collates data. It consists of the query tool GPET-Q, and the extraction tool GPET-E. GPET-Q is designed by Paris-based Atos, a large IT services company.
The data extracted from the GPES database will help medical research in the United Kingdom, and possible disease prevention at an individual level and at the public level - such as health campaigns. It will find where diseases are prevalent, and in which age groups and geographic areas, and possibly which social class. Social class has a large effect on long-term health outcomes.
The way that GPET-Q did this , was queries being built around keys dates and medical Read codes to define the conditions that were being sought for a particular collection of data. As the life-span of the system continued this moved to use SNOMED CT cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietz%20Computer%20Systems | Dietz Computer Systems was a German minicomputer manufacturer with its main office in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
The systems were used for industrial and business data processing, as well as for technical and scientific purposes. A popular computer-aided design software, Technovision, ran on the systems produced by Dietz.
References
Computer hardware companies of Germany
Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Defunct computer companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donita%20Nose | Donita Nose is a Filipina comic, actress and TV host on the GMA Network. She is best known as a transgender comic in Punch Line and Klownz together with other celebrities in showbiz like Super Tekla, Iyah, Boobay and Ate Gay. Nose is also known as one of the television hosts of Wowowin, together with Super Tekla and Willie Revillame. She also impersonates the actress and MTV VJ Donita Rose, where her screen name was taken from.
On 27 July 2020, Nose tested positive for COVID-19, after she experienced symptoms of the disease.
Filmography
Television
See also
Donita Rose
Willie Revillame
Boobay
Petite (comedian)
Betong Sumaya
Ate Gay
References
External links
Living people
Filipino television presenters
Filipino television variety show hosts
Filipino male comedians
Filipino male television actors
Tagalog people
ABS-CBN personalities
GMA Network personalities
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
21st-century Filipino LGBT people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge%21%20%28TV%20network%29 | Charge! is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The network features action- and adventure-based programming sourced primarily from the MGM television and film library.
The network is also available via a website stream for mobile devices (internet sourced) broadcast networks and via streaming service Stirr.
Background
Sinclair Broadcast Group had already put three digital broadcast television networks on the air. The first was with MGM, the science-fiction network Comet, which was launched in October 2015. American Sports Network, Sinclair's sports programming arm (now the framework for Stadium), was broadened to include full network operations on January 11, 2016. Sinclair started TBD, a network targeting millennial audiences, which commenced operations on February 13, 2017, in a soft launch.
History
Charge! was formally announced by Sinclair and MGM on January 17, 2017. The network debuted on February 28, 2017, at 10 am (ET) with an airing of the 1978 film Here Come the Tigers. Stations carrying The Works replaced the network with Charge.
As of 2020, along with sibling network Comet, Charge! is now owned-and-operated by Sinclair as MGM sold their operation stake in the two networks.
Programming
Charge! currently provides up to 18 hours of programming to its owned-and-operated and affiliated stations on weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time and weekends from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The remaining vacated hours are occupied by paid programming.
Programming on Charge! is sourced primarily from MGM's library of films and TV series, expressed by Sinclair's press release announcing the launch as "one of the deepest libraries of premium action-themed content in the world." Titles indicated as airing on Charge! include the TV series In the Heat of the Night and The Magnificent Seven, the Rocky and James Bond film series, and other motion pictures including Platoon and Dances with Wolves. The channel has a similar demographic to rival networks Heroes & Icons and Start TV.
Ring of Honor Wrestling, the weekly professional wrestling television series produced by the Sinclair-affiliated promotion Ring of Honor, began airing on the network from July 9, 2017, to 2019. The series was previously syndicated to sibling broadcast network Comet.
On April 6, 2020, Charge! began airing Magnum, P.I. and Knight Rider in addition to their line-up consisting of CHiPs and Walker, Texas Ranger. In the fall of 2020, Charge began airing Hunter, and CSI: Miami in June 2021. Walker, Texas Ranger would later be taken off the air due to a schedule change. Charge recently began airing The Commish and CSI: NY in late 2022, Without a Trace and Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2023.
Affiliates
At its outset, Sinclair slated the launch of Charge! to primarily take place on digital subchannels of stations it owns or operates. Other Sinclair stations will likely add Charge! during Spring 2017 (and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash%20Sirohiya | Kailash Sirohiya () is a Nepali publisher of Maithili indigenous (native Madhesi) origin from Kathmandu. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Kantipur Publications, Kantipur Television Network and Kantipur FM collectively known as Kantipur Media Group.
References
Living people
Nepalese mass media people
Publishers (people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201984%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1984, according to the Notitas Musicales magazine with data provided by Radio Mil (which also provided charts for Billboard's "Hits of the World" between 1969 and 1981).
Notitas Musicales was a bi-weekly magazine that published two record charts:
"Canciones que México canta" ("Songs that Mexico sings"), which listed the Top 10 most popular Spanish-language songs in Mexico, and
"Hit Parade", which was a Top 10 of the most popular songs in Mexico that were in languages other than Spanish.
Chart history
See also
1984 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1984 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT%20character%20set | The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP or next-multinational) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988. It is based on Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS) character set aka Adobe Standard Encoding where unused code points were filled up with characters from ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1), although at differing code points.
Character set
The following table shows the NeXT character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Codepoints 00hex (0) to 7Fhex (127) are nearly identical to ASCII.
See also
Display PostScript (DPS)
References
NeXT
Character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyenda | () is a Philippine television public affairs show broadcast by GMA Network, GMA News TV, and Light TV. Hosted by Joel Villanueva and later Alex Tinsay, it premiered on August 23, 2005. The show concluded on January 5, 2018. It was replaced by Lifegiver in its timeslot.
Hosts
Alex Tinsay
Joel Villanueva
References
2005 Philippine television series debuts
2018 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA News TV original programming
Light TV original programming
Philippine television shows
Q (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%20%28programming%20language%29 | P is a programming language for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT that was developed by Microsoft and University of California, Berkeley.
P enables programmers to specify systems consisting of a collection of state machines that communicate asynchronously in terms of events. P programs can run and be analyzed on any platform supported by .NET. Additionally, P programs can generate C# and C code.
P is open source, licensed under MIT License, and available on GitHub.
See also
Microsoft Research
Free software movement
References
Further reading
P: Safe asynchronous event-driven programming. Ankush Desai, Vivek Gupta, Ethan Jackson, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram Rajamani, and Damien Zufferey. In Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2013.
Systematic testing of asynchronous reactive systems. Ankush Desai, Shaz Qadeer, and Sanjit A. Seshia. In Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2015).
Building Reliable Distributed Systems With P. Ankush Desai, Ethan Jackson, Amar Phanishayee, Shaz Qadeer and Sanjit A. Seshia. University of California, Berkeley. Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2015-198.
External links
P: Safe Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming
P: A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty
Free and open-source software
Microsoft free software
Microsoft programming languages
Programming languages created in 2012
Software using the MIT license
Systems programming languages
2012 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardfight%21%21%20Vanguard%3A%20Link%20Joker | The third season of Cardfight!! Vanguard, titled , aired on Japanese television networks from January 13, 2013, to March 2, 2014, for a total of 59 episodes.
In July 2010, an anime television series based on the game was green-lit by TMS Entertainment under the directorial supervision of Hatsuki Tsuji. Music is composed by Takayuki Negishi while Mari Tominaga provided the character designs. The series began airing in Japan on TV Aichi beginning on January 8, 2011, and rebroadcast by AT-X, TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, and TV Setouchi systems. The media-streaming website Crunchyroll simulcasted the first season to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Crunchyroll began streaming the second season to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on June 30, 2012.
Twenty-five pieces of theme music are used for the series—nine opening themes and seventeen closing themes (one of which is exclusive to the English dub). The anime also features two insert songs performed by Ultra Rare (i.e. Suzuko Mimori, Yoshino Nanjō, and Aimi Terakawa, who are the original Japanese voice actresses of Kourin, Rekka, and Suiko). The two songs are "Miracle Trigger ~Tomorrow Will Be Ultra Rare!~" (ミラクルトリガー ~きっと明日はウルトラレア!~) (used in episodes 18, 26, and 115; simply known as "Miracle Trigger" in the English dub) and "Stand Up! DREAM" (スタンドアップ! DREAM) (used in episodes 39, 115, and 118).
An English dub co-produced by Ocean Productions (recorded at Blue Water Studios) began airing on Singapore's Okto channel from October 16, 2011, on Animax Asia from January 22, 2012, and on Malaysia's RTM-TV2 channel from November 18, 2012. Dubbed episodes also began being released on YouTube from May 29, 2012. The series can be seen legally on a dedicated channel for it created by Bushiroad, the original creators and manufacturers of the card game, and as of June 25 is available for viewing in most countries without geo-blocking.
While there are a few changes, the English dub adaption is mostly faithful to the original Japanese version. However, the most notable change in the English dub is that three opening themes and three ending themes are used. The only openings are English versions of the first opening theme "Vanguard" (from eps. 1-65), the third opening theme "Limit Break" (from eps. 66–104), and the fourth opening theme "Vanguard Fight" (from eps. 105 onward), all of which are still performed by their original respective artists.
The first ending theme used in the dub is an English version of the third ending theme "Dream Shooter" (from eps. 1-65) while the second ending theme is a unique song titled "Way To Victory" (from eps. 66–104), both of which are performed by Sea☆A. The ending credit sequence for this exclusive theme is the one used for the original sixth ending theme "Jōnetsu-ism". The third ending theme used in the dub is an English version of the original ninth ending song "Endless☆Fighter" (from eps. 105 onward), which is performed only by Aimi Ter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardfight%21%21%20Vanguard%3A%20Legion%20Mate | The fourth and final season of Cardfight!! Vanguard, titled , aired on Japanese TV networks from March 9, 2014 to October 19, 2014, for a total of 33 episodes.
This is a list of episodes from the anime Cardfight!! Vanguard. In July 2010, an anime television series based on the game was green-lit by TMS Entertainment under the directorial supervision of Hatsuki Tsuji. Music is composed by Takayuki Negishi while Mari Tominaga provided the character designs. The series began airing in Japan on TV Aichi beginning on January 8, 2011 and rebroadcast by AT-X, TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, and TV Setouchi systems. The media-streaming website Crunchyroll simulcasted the first season to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Crunchyroll began streaming the second season to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on June 30, 2012.
Twenty-five pieces of theme music are used for the series—nine opening themes and seventeen closing themes (one of which is exclusive to the English dub). The anime also features two insert songs performed by Ultra Rare (i.e. Suzuko Mimori, Yoshino Nanjō, and Aimi Terakawa, who are the original Japanese voice actresses of Kourin, Rekka, and Suiko). The two songs are "Miracle Trigger ~Tomorrow Will Be Ultra Rare!~" (ミラクルトリガー ~きっと明日はウルトラレア!~) (used in episodes 18, 26, and 115; simply known as "Miracle Trigger" in the English dub) and "Stand Up! DREAM" (スタンドアップ! DREAM) (used in episodes 39, 115, and 118).
An English dub co-produced by Ocean Productions (recorded at Blue Water Studios) began airing on Singapore's Okto channel from October 16, 2011, on Animax Asia from January 22, 2012, and on Malaysia's RTM-TV2 channel from November 18, 2012. Dubbed episodes also began being released on YouTube from May 29, 2012. The series can be seen legally on a dedicated channel for it created by Bushiroad, the original creators and manufacturers of the card game, and as of June 25 is available for viewing in most countries without geo-blocking.
While there are a few changes, the English dub adaption is mostly faithful to the original Japanese version. However, the most notable change in the English dub is that three opening themes and three ending themes are used. The only openings are English versions of the first opening theme "Vanguard" (from eps. 1-65), the third opening theme "Limit Break" (from eps. 66-104), and the fourth opening theme "Vanguard Fight" (from eps. 105 onward), all of which are still performed by their original respective artists.
The first ending theme used in the dub is an English version of the third ending theme "Dream Shooter" (from eps. 1-65) while the second ending theme is a unique song titled "Way To Victory" (from eps. 66-104), both of which are performed by Sea☆A. The ending credit sequence for this exclusive theme is the one used for the original sixth ending theme "Jōnetsu-ism". The third ending theme used in the dub is an English version of the original ninth ending song "Endless☆Figh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choletbus | Choletbus () is a network of urban and periurban buses in the city of Cholet, France. The network is operated on behalf of the Agglomeration community of Cholet by Transports Publics du Choletais.
The Choletbus network contains a total of eighteen bus lines, of which eleven form the central network that serves Cholet and seven other lines form a peri-urban network that serves the communes of the agglomeration. The entire network is made up of 250 different stopping points.
References
External links
Choletbus
Public transport mobility in Pays de la Loire
Bus companies of France
Transport in Cholet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkata%20Padmanabhan | Venkata Narayana Padmanabhan is a computer scientist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research India. He is known for his research in networked and mobile systems. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2016.
Biography
Padmanabhan did his graduate studies in computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and after earning a BTech in 1993, he pursued his higher studies at University of California, Berkeley from where he secured a master's degree (MS) under the guidance of Domenico Ferrari in 1995 and a PhD, advised by Randy Katz in 1998. With Katz, he worked on Web Data Transport and his thesis, Addressing the Challenges of Web Data Transport. Starting his career at the Redmond station of Microsoft, he served there for over 8 years before returning to India as the principal researcher at Microsoft India and heads the Mobility, Networks and Systems group, which he founded in 2007.
Padmanabhan has done extensive research on Indoor positioning systems, smartphone-based sensing, and mobile communication and his work has resulted in the development of technologies which is being used by Microsoft in their products. He has documented his researches by way of several articles; He has been involved with the organization of ACM SIGCOMM conferences and served as the general co-chair of the 2010 edition in New Delhi and as the program co-chair of the 2012 edition. He sits in the editorial boards of journals such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. and chairs the Award Committee for ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award 2017.
Awards and honors
The Association for Computing Machinery elected Padmanabhan as a Distinguished Scientist in 2009 and as a Fellow in 2016. He was elected a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 and of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2014. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2016.
Selected bibliography
Books
Articles
See also
Nericell
BitTorrent
Mesh networking
Location-based service
Notes
References
External links
Further reading
20th-century births
Living people
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science
Indian scientific authors
IIT Delhi alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Microsoft Research people
Indian electronics engineers
Indian computer scientists
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NR%20Brunel | The NR Brunel typeface is the Network Rail standard for signing at Network Rail managed stations.
This font is an evolution of the Brunel typeface designed by a specialist typeface design company, The Foundry, for Railtrack in 1999 and adopted initially by Network Rail.
It was recommended as a new national standard for station signs in a 2009 report commissioned by the Secretary of State for Transport, and was adopted by South West Trains and East Midlands Trains for their station signage.
Beginning in 2023, the typeface is due to be phased out as new rail operator Great British Railways reintroduces an updated version of Rail Alphabet as part of its systemwide rebranding.
See also
Rail Alphabet
References
Network Rail
Corporate typefaces
Humanist sans-serif typefaces
Display typefaces
Government typefaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20library | In computer science, a math library (or maths library) is a component of a programming language's standard library containing functions (or subroutines) for the most common mathematical functions, such as trigonometry and exponentiation. Bit-twiddling and control functionalities related to floating point numbers may also be included (such as in C).
Examples include:
the C standard library math functions,
Java maths library
'Prelude.Math' in haskell.
In some languages (such as haskell) parts of the standard library (including maths) are imported by default.
More advanced functionality such as linear algebra is usually provided in 3rd party libraries, such as a linear algebra library or vector maths library.
Implementation outline
Basic operations
In a math library, it is frequently useful to use type punning to interpret a floating-point number as an unsigned integer of the same size. This allows for faster inspection of certain numeral properties (positive or not) and number comparison. In more advanced cases, bit twiddling may be used to modify a number in a specific way.
For more exact operation, a double double or even triple double format may be used. In this case, a high-precision number is expressed as the sum of two or three floating-point numbers.
Transcendental functions
Transcendental functions such as log, exponential, and trig functions make up the backbone of any math library. These functions are generally implemented by a polynomial fit, usually a Taylor polynomial or a Chebyshev polynomial derived by the Remez algorithm (having the benefit of an improved error bound), but the pre-processing steps are equally important.
Trignometry
Range reduction (also argument reduction, domain-spltting) is the first step for any function, after checks for unusual values (infinity and NaN) are performed. The goal here is to reduce the domain of the argument for the polynomial to process, using the function's symmetry and periodicity (if any), setting flags to indicate e.g. whether to negate the result in the end (if needed). It is worth noting that periodic functions require higher-than-input precision when reducing, with the prototypical method being the Payne–Hanek–Corbett algorithm. After range reduction, near-zero values may be subject to a "fast path": for example, a tiny input can be returned directly in sin, while may be used for cos.
The next step is the evaluation of the polynomial, with a conventional Horner's method used. After that, the sign of the result can be flipped according to the information from the range-reduction routine before being returned.
Logarithm and exponential
Logarithm in base 2 is relatively straightforward, as the integer part k is already in the floating-point exponent; a preliminary range reduction is accordingly performed, yielding k. The mantissa x (where log2(x) is between -1/2 and 1/2) is then compared to a table and intervals for further reduction into a z with known log2 and an in-ran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landline%20%28disambiguation%29 | A landline telephone is attached to the telephone network by a cable.
Landline (or Land Line, Land-Line) may also refer to:
Landline (TV series), on matters in rural Australia
Landline (film), a 2017 comedy film
Landline (novel), a 2014 sci-fi novel by Rainbow Rowell
Land-Line, a former dataset from the Ordnance Survey, the UK mapping body
Land Line Magazine, for American truckers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20Theory%20%28demo%29 | Chaos Theory is a computer demo by Conspiracy released in August 2006 at Assembly. It has been realised by Gergely Szelei, Barna Buza and Zoltán Szabó.
Technical description
Chaos Theory is a 64K intro demo. It uses kkrunchy from farbrausch as packer.
Synopsis
The demo opens with three circles and a black screen. On a green foliage pattern screen the words "Conspiracy", "Assembly 2006" appear, before showing a space opera scene with "a world not of my making yet a world of my design, so strange and so familiar" text. After a quiet moment, the rhythm of the music and the speed of the graphisms accelerates, to represent chaos. A device with imbricated rings moving up and down appears briefly. Then, the demo decreases again to a more quiet pace, prints geometry patterns before a second acceleration and a repeat of the previous patterns and elements, slightly different.
Awards
The demo has been very well received by the critics. It was ranked second place at the Assembly 2006. Since, it has received several awards, like an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica's Computer Animation / Film / VFX category in 2007. At Scene.org Awards, it won the best 64K intro prize, and was also nominated in the "Best Direction" and "Public Choice" categories. It was also presented at SIGGRAPH in 2007.
References
External links
Official site
Chaos Theory on Pouët
Demos
2006 works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE%202059 | SMPTE 2059 is a standard from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) that describes how to synchronize video equipment over an IP network. The standard is based on IEEE 1588-2008. SMPTE 2059 is published in two parts on 9 April 2015:
SMPTE 2059-1Defines signal generation based on time information delivered by the IEEE 1588 protocol.
SMPTE 2059-2Defines an operating profile for the IEEE protocol optimized to the needs of media synchronization.
SMPTE 2059 is an integral part of emerging professional IP video broadcast technology and standards.
In May 2016, the Audio Engineering Society published a report describing synchronization interoperability between AES67 and SMPTE 2059-2.
Operating parameters
References
SMPTE standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque%20La%20Leona | Parque La Leona is an urban park located in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. It is located on a plateau overlooking the city, and holds a network of winding, often fairly steep stairs, steps, and pathways. There is a promontory with a large balcony that is a heavily photographed spot with it panoramic view of the city. It is located in a Spanish-built neighborhood with cobblestone streets.
References
Tegucigalpa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20National%20Broadband%20Network | The National Broadband Network had its origins in 2006 when the Federal Labor Opposition led by Kim Beazley committed the Australian Labor Party, if elected to government to a 'super-fast' national broadband network. Initial attempts to engage key businesses in Australian telecommunications in planning and development; and implementation and operation failed with NBN Co being set up in 2010 to have carriage of the 'largest infrastructure' project in Australia's history.
Completion of the project is anticipated to be in the early 2020s.
2006–2007
Pre-2007 federal election
On 11 August 2005 Sol Trujillo, the newly appointed CEO of Telstra, gave his first presentation, "The Digital Compact & National Broadband Plan: Enabling Regulatory Reform" to both the Howard government and select investors. Australian Securities Exchange continuous disclosure rules forced the presentation to be shared with all investors, published on Telstra & ASX sites. This is one of the earliest uses of "National Broadband Plan", the origin of the $4.7 billion of Government equity to build a 12Mbit/s FTTN NBN, "94% Rural" and "99% Urban". There were two other proposed options, for 6Mbit/s for $2.6B and 1.5Mbit/s for $1.1B. [PDF page 47 of TLS-339, pg 15 of "National Broadband Plan" slides.]
The opposition Labor Party proposed that if elected, it would commence the construction of a 'super fast' national broadband network (NBN). The initial proposal would see fibre to the node (FTTN) technology for 98% of Australian households with a minimum speed of 12 Mbit/s, and the remaining 2% would "have improved broadband services". The network was initially estimated to cost including a government contribution of which would be raised in part by selling the Federal Government's remaining shares in Telstra.
The Howard government's $2 billion broadband plan would see regional areas to get WiMAX wireless and ADSL2+ broadband. At no cost to the tax-payers, the private sector would tender to build a FTTN broadband network in built-up areas capable of delivering internet speeds of up to 50 Mbit/s.
2007 Federal election
The Labor Party won the November 2007 federal election, and the Rudd government was sworn into office on 3 December. Soon afterwards, Senator Stephen Conroy announced the newly elected government's commitment to building a national high-speed broadband FTTN network.
2008
Initial Request for Proposal
Request for Proposal (RFP) to build the NBN issued, compliant proposals were received from Acacia, Axia NetMedia, Optus on behalf of Terria, TransACT and the Government of Tasmania (covering their respective states only), a non-compliant proposal was received from Telstra and they were excluded from consideration.
There were suggestions that if the project were to go ahead, Telstra's exclusion could lead to them being entitled to compensation estimated at .
Bidders who lodged compliant proposals were neither able to meet the government's requirements nor able to rais |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIPLE | ASU VIPLE is a Visual IoT/Robotics Programming Language Environment developed at Arizona State University.
ASU VIPLE is an educational platform designed with a focus on computational thinking, namely on learning how algorithms work without focusing on syntactic complexities. To this end, VIPLE is designed to facilitate the programming of applications that make use of robotics and other IoT devices.
History
Visual and graphical programming languages have been used as tools to teach computer science concepts and computational thinking. A number of visual programming environments have been developed and applied. MIT App Inventor for Android uses drag-and-drop style puzzles to construct phone applications
University of Virginia and Carnegie Mellon's Alice (software) is a 3D game and movie development environment. It uses a drop-down list for users to select the available functions in a step-wise manner. App Inventor and Alice allow novice programmers to develop complex applications using visual composition at the workflow level. LEGO EV3 software allows simple robotics programming through puzzle blocks on rails. It has been applied in junior high and middle school levels. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) Visual Programming Language (VPL) are specifically developed for robotics applications, which is a milestone in software engineering, robotics, and computer science education from many aspects. Microsoft MRDS VPL is service-oriented; it is visual and workflow-based; it is event-driven; it supports parallel computing; and it has been widely used in middle schools, high schools, and colleges an educational tool that is simple to learn and yet powerful and expressive. Unfortunately, Microsoft stopped its development and support for MRDS and VPL in 2014. VIPLE (Visual IoT/Robotics Programming Language Environment) is developed to support MRDS VPL community. VIPLE is developed based on the concept of Robot as a Service. VIPLE has been used in many schools and universities around the world. A textbook has been published by Machine Press China: Introduction to Computer Science with Robotics Experiment, Machine Press, 2013. ASU summer robotics camps are taught using VIPLE every summer. ASU class FSE100 uses VIPLE as the programming language. Under the HEEAP and BUILD-IT programs, over 90 faculty and 20 students in Vietnam were trained in December 2016 to use VIPLE to teach introduction to engineering using robotics programming. ASU VIPLE has been applied in numerous student projects and was reported in different news reports: "Robot programming made easy" and "ASU team won first prize at Intel Cup in China".
Features and philosophy
ASU VIPLE uses the same computing model as Microsoft VPL. The program is running on a Windows computer, a desktop, a laptop, or a tablet. The computer sends commands to control the robot actuators (motors) and receives the sensory data and motor feedback from the robot. The data between the computer and the robot is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obash | Obash is a bash script obfuscator written in the C programming language. obash encodes and encrypts bash shell scripts into executable binaries much like shc, the project that inspired it, but uses AES-256 encryption and the key and initialization vector are retrieved from the hardware instead of being hard coded into the binary itself. The obash project was started to address some of the issues that affect shc, the main one being able to see the original shell script source by simply issuing ps -ef. Although the objectives are the same, obash shares no code with shc and was built from scratch from the ground up, any code similarities are purely accidental and dictated by the shared objectives.
Obash is still a work in progress but the master branch on GitHub generally has usable sources while the testing branch may be in a transition state at any given time.
How it works internally
Obash takes the input script and AES-256 encrypts it, and also base64 encodes the AES ciphertext so that it can be used to declare an unsigned char array.
It then produces an intermediate C file which is basically the interpreter (see interpreter.c), functions, text array containing the ciphertext, the optional key and IV for reusable binaries (not bound to the hardware) and the main. The intermediate C file is then compiled into an executable.
The intermediate C file is built in the following manner (see mk_sh_c function in functions.c):
includes block from interpreter.h
crypted_script variable containing the AES-256 encrypted script encoded via base64
serial and uuid variables (empty if non reusable)
functions block from interpreter.h
main_body block from interpreter.h
See recreate_interpreter_header script for details on how interpreter.h is created from interpreter.c.
Key and initialization vector for AES-256 encryption
The key and IV are not hard-coded into the binary (unless you decide to build a reusable static binary with the -r flag) but are retrieved each time from the hardware (hence binding it to a machine). In case of a reusable static binary (built with the -r flag) then the uuid and serial are in the binary itself but will be manipulated anyway by makekey and makeiv so that they are not usable immediately should anyone ever inspect the binary itself.
Although the whereabouts from where the serial and uuid are retrieved is traceable and is not a secret (machine uuid and serial number for non reusable and random hex digits for reusable) these should be then manipulated in a way that they are not directly usable as is. In the code there is a comment suggesting where this should be done (see makekey and makeiv functions in functions.c): each and every one of you using obash is encouraged to do so or it would be fairly easy to extract the script source from the obfuscated binary.. In the distributed code, as an example, the "-" are stripped from the uuid and the serial is padded to reach the suggested length for the cipher used.
Alternatives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan%20High%20School%20%28Baton%20Rouge%2C%20Louisiana%29 | Franciscan High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, opened in August 2016, as Cristo Rey Franciscan High School and part of the Cristo Rey Network. In July 2022, the school became known as Franciscan High School, operating with the sponsorship of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady and within the Diocese of Baton Rouge. The school closed on June 2, 2023.
History
The school was founded by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady and began classes on August 8, 2016 in the former Redemptorist High School buildings in North Baton Rouge. On August 12–13, 2016, the school buildings were lost in the Great Flood of Baton Rouge. The school relocated to Bon Carre Technology Park for the remainder of the 2016-2017 school year and the start of the 2017-2018 school year. In February 2018, the school returned to its original campus on St. Gerard Avenue in modular buildings.
The school added a grade level each year until its first graduating class, the Class of 2020, received their diplomas from Cristo Rey Baton Rouge on May 23, 2020. The inaugural graduating class included 41 seniors.
In July 2022, the school cut its ties with Cristo Rey, operating with the sponsorship of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady and within the Diocese of Baton Rouge, and was renamed Franciscan High School. The school closed on June 2, 2023.
Corporate Work Study Program
Franciscan High School utilized a unique Corporate Work Study program model whereby all students of the school were employed by a corporate work partner. Students worked one day per week at their corporate work study placement to help earn a portion of their tuition. As of 2022, the program had over 40 local partners.
Athletics
Cristo Rey Baton Rouge Franciscan High athletics competed in the LHSAA.
References
External links
Cristo Rey Network
Franciscan high schools
Catholic secondary schools in Louisiana
Community-building organizations
Educational institutions established in 2016
2016 establishments in Louisiana
Poverty-related organizations
Educational institutions disestablished in 2023
2023 disestablishments in Louisiana
Schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Almond | Mary Almond, (born 2 January 1928) is an English physicist, radio astronomer, palaeomagnetist, mathematician, and computer scientist who completed an early PhD in radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank Observatory in 1952.
Early life and education
Almond was born in Manchester and studied for a degree in physics at the University of Manchester from 1946 to 1949, where she was taught by Patrick Blackett and Bernard Lovell.
At the end of their first year of physics lectures, Lovell asked if any of the male students would be interested in spending some time at Jodrell Bank over the summer, digging trenches and mixing concrete and other somewhat physical tasks. After the lecture, Almond went to see him and asked, "Would there be anything for girls to do at Jodrell?" and Lovell said he was sure he could find them something.
Almond and Majorie, an old school friend of Almond's who was in the same year, spent two weeks working at Jodrell Bank, living at Alderley Edge in a caravan belonging to Almond's former physics teacher and cycling to Jodrell Bank where they sandpapered rust off the searchlight mount that they were going to attach an aerial to. During these two weeks, Almond also witnessed Manning Prentice doing visual meteor at this time and correlating them with the radar echoes on screen
At this time, there were no permanent radio astronomy buildings on site, just "these old army trailers in a sea of mud."
The following summer Almond returned but lived on site in a tent alongside other young physics students, all of them male. After two summers at Jodrell Bank and after graduating with a 2:1 physics degree from Manchester in 1949, Almond decided to do her PhD in radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank and returned to a site partially transformed with the newly constructed prefab huts and road around 'the Green' area as well as the Transit Telescope.
Between 1949 and 1952, Almond worked on her PhD in Radiant Hut, analysing film recordings of meteor echoes to calculate the velocity of their orbits. Almond's PhD was in such a relatively new field that they found it difficult to find a suitable external examiner. Lovell eventually secured German astronomer Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, then based at St Andrews Observatory, as Almond's external examiner. Almond published a number of important and early papers in radio and radar astronomy based on her PhD research during and immediately after her PhD, most co-authored with her PhD supervisor John Grant Davies as well as Bernard Lovell himself.
Career and research
After completing her PhD in 1952, Almond had a job offer from Ferranti but instead began working on palaeomagnetism with Peter Stubbs and John Clegg in a group established by Professor Patrick Blackett. Their research on Late Triassic New Red Sandstone indicated that England had rotated 34° and moved towards the north pole over geological time and is regarded as playing an important role in convincing Earth scientists of the importance of palaeomag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature%20Crunch | Creature Crunch is a 1996 animated point-and-click adventure game released for personal computers, developed by TechToons and Class6 Interactive. In the game, the player controls Wesley, a boy who is transformed into a human-monster hybrid by a mad scientist. Wesley has to escape the scientist's mansion, exploring its rooms and eating items which will help him defeat each room's guardians.
Creature Crunch features the voices of comedians Martin Short and Eugene Levy.
Plot
The boy Wesley (voiced by Short) is riding his bike during a storm. He stops in front of a mansion looking for shelter. Wesley is captured by the house's owner, Dr. Drod, and becomes the subject of his monster experiment. The experiment goes wrong, turning the boy only a half-monster. With the help of Brian (Levy), a sentient brain in a jar, Wesley has to find a way out Dr. Drod's mansion and defeat another experiments who block his way.
By eating the right items scattered by the mansion Wesley can transform himself into a variety of forms (e.g. Wesley eats a Bunsen burner and turns into a fire-breathing monster) who help him defeat the enemies.
Reception
Entertainment Weekly's Bob Strauss described the Creature Crunch as "passably enjoyable". The game artwork reminded him of John Kricfalusi style.
References
External links
Official Website
Creature Crunch on Internet Archive
Creature Crunch on Moby Games
1996 video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Point-and-click adventure games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysiphonia%20denudata | Polysiphonia denudata (Polysiphonia variegate (C.Agardh) Zanardini) is a small red alga, Rhodophyta, growing as tufts up to 20 cm long without a main branch axis.
Description
Polysiphonia denudata is erect with repeatedly branched axes. Each branch consists of a central axis with 5 to 7 elongated pericentral cells all of the same length. Cortication occurs lower down, these corticating cells grow down in the grooves between the pericentral cells. The holdfast is discoid.
Reproduction
The plants are dioecious. They bear spermatangia towards the tips of branches. Cystocarps are barrel-shaped when mature borne on a wide short stalk. Tetrasporangia occur in a spiral series in the branches near the tips.
Habitat
The alga is very rare, grows on rock, stones or other large algae in the low-littoral or below in sheltered sites.
Distribution
Reported from the north of Ireland in 1847, the specimen is in store in the Ulster Museum, Belfast in England from the south coast, Scottish records considered misidentifications, Netherlands to Portugal and West Africa. The Mediterranean and west Atlantic.
References
Further References
Bunker, F.StP.D., Maggs,C.A., Brodie, J.A., Bunker, A.R. 2017. Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. Second Edition. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth. UK.
Rhodomelaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fubar%20Age%20of%20Computer | Fubar Age of Computer is a Canadian mockumentary television series based on the films of the same name. Starring David Lawrence and Paul J. Spence, the series premiered on Viceland on November 3, 2017 and on City on November 5, 2017.
Premise
After fleeing wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Terry and Dean discover the Internet for the first time.
Cast and characters
David Lawrence as Terry Cahill
Paul J. Spence as Dean Murdoch
North Darling as Shank
Maxime D. Pomerleau as Jacinthe Ouellette
Terra Hazelton as Trish Cahill
Andrew Sparacino as Tron
Series overview
Season 1 (2017)
Reception
John Semley of The Globe and Mail said "Much of Age of Computer's humour – from its jokes about real-world wildfires to sight gags about way-too-steep wheelchair ramps – may strike many people as galling. But as in the previous, big screen Fubar adventures, Terry and Dean's beautiful obliviousness produces a genuine sympathy."
According to Google 91% of its users liked Fubar Age of Computer.
References
External links
Official Viceland site
2010s Canadian satirical television series
2010s Canadian sitcoms
2017 Canadian television series debuts
Canadian mockumentary television series
Citytv original programming
Viceland original programming
Television shows set in Calgary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20TBD%20affiliates | The following is a list of affiliates of TBD, a United States digital broadcast television network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group that focuses on internet-based series and content targeting millennial audiences. The network commenced programming on February 13, 2017 with at least two broadcast affiliates, KDSM-TV/Des Moines and WLUK-TV/Green Bay, adding the network to one of their digital subchannels on that date. The February 13 date was the beginning of a "soft roll-out" of TBD affiliates; by February 24, 49 stations, all owned or operated by Sinclair, are either carrying the network or have been indicated as a future affiliate. TBD will be added to other Sinclair stations during Spring 2017 before being offered to stations in markets outside of Sinclair's geographic footprint.
Stations listed in BOLD are TBD owned-and-operated.
Current affiliates
Former affiliates
References
External links
TBD.com – Official website
TBD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Investigative%20Journalism%20Network | The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) is "an international association of nonprofit organizations that support, promote and produce investigative journalism." The association is headquartered in the United States, and its membership is open to "nonprofits, NGOs, and educational organizations" that are active in investigative reporting and data journalism. As of February 2021, GIJN had 203 member organizations in 76 countries.
The organisation's projects include a help desk to provide investigative journalists with advice and assistance, a resource center with tips, tools, and manuals, and large training conferences that have attracted over 5,000 journalists from 100 countries.
History
GIJN was formed in 2003 as a loose network in support of the biennial Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), which had been launched two years earlier by veteran journalists Brant Houston and Nils Mulvad. The GIJN secretariat was officially formed after participants of the 7th GIJC in Kiev voted for the formation of a provisional secretariat in 2013. The organization registered as a nonprofit corporation in Maryland, United States of America, in 2014 and was approved as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in October 2014.
Members
Member organizations include the Center for Investigative Reporting, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ), Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), the Belarusian Investigative Center, Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism, Investigative Journalism Programme at Wits University, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, ProPublica, Journalism for Nation Building Foundation-Philippines, and Interlink Academy for International Dialog and Journalism.
Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC)
GIJN co-organizes a biennial Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC), to bring together investigative journalists across the globe to share their knowledge and expertise with each other and to form cross-border networks for collaborative reporting and referrals.
The GIJC has been held in Copenhagen in 2001 and 2003, Amsterdam (2005), Toronto (2007), Lillehammer (2008), Geneva (2010), Kiev (2011), Rio de Janeiro (2013), Lillehammer (2015), and Johannesburg (2017). The latest conference was held in Hamburg, Germany in 2019.
Since 2014, GIJN has organized investigative journalism conferences in Asia. The first Asian Investigative Journalism Conference was held in Manila (2014), the second in Kathmandu (2016), and the third in Seoul (2018).
Global Shining Light Award
GIJN gives out Global Shining Light Awards for excellence in investigative reporting "in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions."
The awards are presented to recipients in an awards ceremony held every two |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confide | Confide is an encrypted instant messaging application for most major operating systems. It was first released in 2013, on iOS, and is known for its self-destructing messaging system that deletes messages immediately after reading. The platform offers both free and paid features for individuals and businesses.
In 2017, the news outlet Axios reported that it had gained popularity among, “numerous senior GOP operatives and several members of the Trump administration.” After receiving more media attention, there were concerns about the security of the app, as it is closed source and an independent review by Kudelski Security indicated it may use an older, less secure version of OpenSSL. The app's first full security audit found multiple critical vulnerabilities including impersonating another user by hijacking an account session or by guessing a password, learning the contact details of Confide users, becoming an intermediary in a conversation and decrypting messages, and potentially altering the contents of a message or attachment in transit without first decrypting it. WIRED reported that the encryption in Confide was based on the "PGP standard," and used Transport Layer Security.
In January 2018, Confide, Inc. developers announced their newly developed ScreenShieldKit SDK (Software Development Kit) which was originally intended only for the Confide application. The API allows developers to incorporate the same screenshot-proof functionality of Confide into their own applications by simply importing the SDK replacing UITextView and UIImageView – two commonly used iOS development components used to display data to end users. The SDK prevents screenshots by blanking out the data and supports protection from a variety of capture methods including screenshots, screen recordings, screen mirrorings, and even screenshots from Apple's Xcode (the main development platform for iOS).
Confide was referred to as an application that was used during communications between an accuser and a boss during the scandal surrounding the then governor in New York in 2021.
See also
Comparison of instant messaging clients
Signal
Wire
References
External links
Cryptographic software
Secure communication
IOS software
Internet privacy software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten%20Network | Tungsten Network is a global electronic invoicing firm that provides supply chain financing services from international offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Bulgaria, Germany, and Malaysia. As a small- to medium-sized IT company, they have an estimated revenue of £31.3 million (GBP) as of July 2017. Tungsten Corporation Plc (TUNG) is reported to trade regularly on the London Stock Exchange. Main competitors in this arena include Tradeshift, Ariba, Basware, Taulia and iPayables.
History
Tungsten Network "was founded [in 2013] by Edmund Truell and Danny Truell to identify and acquire a company, business or asset within the financial services sector which it can grow into a business with a significant market presence in a segment with potential for sustainable long-term cash generation, return on equity and growth." A major acquisition was OB10, a global electronic transaction service with headquarters in London, England. Founded in 2000 by Stefan Foryszewski, Chris Lowrie, Alain Falys and John Jermy, Tungsten Network underwent a series of corporate expansions and acquisitions. The company, led by its founder and CEO Edmund "Eddie" Truell, agreed to the 2013 buyout of Open Business Exchange for £99 million (GBP) in cash and shares. The purchase of DocuSphere in September 2014 significantly extended their e-invoice automation technology.
Founded from Open Business Exchange, or OB10, Tungsten Network's electronic invoicing and payment services are partnered with companies including Alliance Data, IBM, Kellogg's, General Motors, and the US Federal Government. Nearly 80% of the suppliers Tungsten serves are small to medium-sized global business.
OB10 collaboration and acquisition - 2000
When OB10 was founded, e-invoicing services were not permitted in a majority of the European Union. However, OB10's services were launched in late 2000, followed by the establishment of offices in New York. As e-invoicing services grew, OB10 established offices in San Francisco and Atlanta in the United States, as well as Sofia, Bulgaria and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tungsten officially purchased OB10 in October 2013.
Transition to Tungsten Network - 2013
Tungsten Corporation finalized the acquisition of OB10 in October 2013, rebranding the e-invoicing platform “Tungsten Network”. Tungsten purchased OB10 for £99 million, as well as having signed a five-year agreement to license @UK's Spend Analysis software. Tungsten Network provides a global cloud-based trading network built on OB10's e-invoicing platform. The service integrates client billing and accounting systems with their suppliers' invoicing and accounting systems.
Purchasing DocuSphere - 2014
In September 2014, Tungsten acquired DocuSphere – a US-based provider of invoice-automation services. The purchase was funded by a share placing, rather than an open offer.
Tungsten of today
In September 2019, Andrew Lemonofides took over as chief executive officer of Tungsten Corporation plc from Richard Hurwit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novemail%E2%80%93Histor%E2%80%93Laser%20Computer | Novemail–Histor–Laser Computer () was a French professional cycling team that existed in 1993 and 1994. The team participated in the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Tour de France.
1994 Team roster
Major wins
Sources:
1993
Vuelta a Andalucía
Stage 2, Wilfried Nelissen
Stage 3, Jo Planckaert
Overall Tour Méditerranéen Cycliste Professionnel, Charly Mottet
Stage 3, Charly Mottet
Omloop Het Volk, Wilfried Nelissen
Memorial Samyn, Wilfried Nelissen
Clásica de Almería, Viatcheslav Ekimov
Vuelta a Murcia
Stage 2, Viatcheslav Ekimov
Stage 4, Marcel Wüst
Grand Prix de Denain, Marcel Wüst
Tour de Vendée, Dimitri Zhdanov
Stage 2 4 Jours de Dunkerque, Viatcheslav Ekimov
Stage 5 Vuelta Asturias, Viatcheslav Ekimov
Classique des Alpes, Eddy Bouwmans
A Travers le Morbihan, Marcel Wüst
Stage 4 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, Eddy Bouwmans
Stage 5 Tour de Suisse, Viatcheslav Ekimov
Stage 2 Tour de France, Wilfried Nelissen
Stages 1, 2 & 4 Ronde van Nederland, Wilfried Nelissen
Overall Tour du Limousin, Charly Mottet
Stage 4b, Charly Mottet
Stage 2 Vuelta a Burgos, Marcel Wüst
Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya, Marcel Wüst
Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir, Cédric Vasseur
Paris–Bourges, Bruno Cornillet
Stages 3 & 7b Herald Sun Tour, Marcel Wüst
1994
Étoile de Bessèges
Stages 1 & 3, Wilfried Nelissen
Stage 4, Nico Verhoeven
Stage 3 La Méditerranéenne, Wilfried Nelissen
Omloop Het Volk, Wilfried Nelissen
Stage 7 Paris–Nice, Charly Mottet
Stage 1 Critérium International, Eddy Bouwmans
Stages 1 & 2 Four Days of Dunkirk, Wilfried Nelissen
Binche–Chimay–Binche, Wilfried Nelissen
Stage 10 Olympia's Tour, Raymond Thebes
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
Stage 1, Marcel Wüst
Stage 6, Ronan Pensec
Stage 4 Vuelta a Asturias, Wilfried Nelissen
National Road Race Championship, Wilfried Nelissen
Stage 3 Tour du Limousin, Eddy Bouwmans
Grand Prix d'Isbergues, Wilfried Nelissen
Stage 1 Herald Sun Tour, Marcel Wüst
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainer | Chainer is an open source deep learning framework written purely in Python on top of NumPy and CuPy Python libraries. The development is led by Japanese venture company Preferred Networks in partnership with IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
Chainer is notable for its early adoption of "define-by-run" scheme, as well as its performance on large scale systems. The first version was released in June 2015 and has gained large popularity in Japan since then. Furthermore, in 2017, it was listed by KDnuggets in top 10 open source machine learning Python projects.
In December 2019, Preferred Networks announced the transition of its development effort from Chainer to PyTorch and it will only provide maintenance patches after releasing v7.
Define-by-run
Chainer was the first deep learning framework to introduce the define-by-run approach. The traditional procedure to train a network was in two phases: define the fixed connections between mathematical operations (such as matrix multiplication and nonlinear activations) in the network, and then run the actual training calculation. This is called the define-and-run or static-graph approach. Theano and TensorFlow are among the notable frameworks that took this approach. In contrast, in the define-by-run or dynamic-graph approach, the connection in a network is not determined when the training is started. The network is determined during the training as the actual calculation is performed.
One of the advantages of this approach is that it is intuitive and flexible. If the network has complicated control flows such as conditionals and loops, in the define-and-run approach, specially designed operations for such constructs are needed. On the other hand, in the define-by-run approach, programming language's native constructs such as if statements and for loops can be used to describe such flow. This flexibility is especially useful to implement recurrent neural networks.
Another advantage is ease of debugging. In the define-and-run approach, if an error (such as numeric error) has occurred in the training calculation, it is often difficult to inspect the fault, because the code written to define the network and the actual place of the error are separated. In the define-by-run approach, you can just suspend the calculation with the language's built-in debugger and inspect the data that flows on your code of the network.
Define-by-run has gained popularity since the introduction by Chainer and is now implemented in many other frameworks, including PyTorch and TensorFlow.
Extension libraries
Chainer has four extension libraries, ChainerMN, ChainerRL, ChainerCV and ChainerUI. ChainerMN enables Chainer to be used on multiple GPUs with performance significantly faster than other deep learning frameworks. A supercomputer running Chainer on 1024 GPUs processed 90 epochs of ImageNet dataset on ResNet-50 network in 15 minutes, which is four times faster than the previous record held by Facebook. ChainerRL adds stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20%282017%20film%29 | Lou is a 2017 American computer-animated short film written and directed by Dave Mullins and produced by Pixar. It was theatrically released alongside Pixar's Cars 3 on June 16, 2017. The film is about a lost-and-found box and the unseen monster within. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
Plot
The lost-and-found box in a kindergarten playground is home to Lou, a creature made from the assorted unclaimed items (whose name is made up of three letters missing from the sign on the box). After each recess period, Lou picks up the toys and items kids have left behind, leaving them in the box and subtly encouraging their owners to find them when they return.
A bully named J.J. starts stealing toys from the other children and putting them in his backpack. Lou is angered by this and decides to take J.J.'s backpack once J.J is the last kid on the playground. J.J catches him in the act and a chase ensues, with Lou constantly changing his shape to avoid being caught.
During the chase, Lou notices the name tag on J.J.'s underwear matches the name tag on a toy in the bottom of the box, an old plushie dog that a bigger kid had stolen from J.J. some years before. Lou shows the dog to J.J, but refuses to give it to him until J.J. returns the toys he stole. J.J. initially returns the toys begrudgingly, but is surprised when a girl gratefully hugs him. He begins to enjoy returning the remaining items, making some new friends in the process, which in turn motivates him to find the owners of every single item in the box. Returning to the box for the last time, J.J. finds that Lou is no longer present, as all of his parts have been claimed by their owners. J.J. sees his plushie dog is the last toy left and happily reclaims it. A football lands near him and he decides to join two other boys for a game of catch.
Reception
Lou premiered at the South by Southwest festival on March 12, 2017. It was theatrically released on June 16, 2017, together with Pixar's eighteenth film Cars 3.
The film is dedicated to Mullins' father, who died during the making of the short.
Awards
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2017 films
2017 3D films
2017 computer-animated films
2010s Disney animated short films
Animated films without speech
Films scored by Christophe Beck
Pixar short films
3D animated short films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnoe%20%26%20Beloe | Red&White () is a Russian retailer with a network of eponymous self-service shops. The network bills itself as "shopping at home." Although the shops have a wider range of products than liquor stores, their main business is the sale of prepackaged alcoholic beverages. The head office is located in Chelyabinsk. Also, the company has 18 regional offices.
The word "Red" in the name represents wine, and "White" represents vodka.
History
In the early 1990s, Sergei Studennikov founded SPS, a holding company engaged in the distribution of alcohol and tobacco. The first shop called "Red&White" was opened in Kopeysk on 11 August 2006. By the end of the year, the network consisted of 8 stores. in 2007, the chain had expanded to 38 stores. In 2014, the network consisted of 1,700 stores in 27 regions. In July 2015, the network of Red&White included more than 2,500 stores in 39 regions. In 2016, the company had more than 3,000 stores and 4 distribution centers. In 2017, Forbes reported Red&White as having 4,715 stores.
Activities
Due to the large size of the network, the company is able to sell about 30 items under its store brand, and is a key customer for some manufacturers. As of 2022, the company's network included over 12000 stores.
All shops are connected to Russia's Unified State Automated Information System (USAIS), an automated system for state control over the volume of production and distribution of ethanol and alcoholic drinks.
In an average trading area of , each store stocks about 700 varieties of wine and distilled beverage, about 100 beers, 60 to 70 brands of cigarettes, and approximately 300 items of related products such as groceries, confectionery and pickles.
Performance indicators
In 2015, Red&White took seventh place in the ranking of fastest growing companies in Russia, based on financial results for the period from 2011 to 2014. In 2014, the revenue of the Red&White network amounted to 47 billion rubles (US$ billion), an increase from 10 billion in 2011 (US$ billion), after increasing to 18 billion rubles in 2012 (US$ billion), and then 29 billion rubles in 2013. Forbes estimated revenue for 2015 as 82.5 billion rubles (US$ billion), a year-over-year increase of almost 80%, and named Red&White as the 84th largest private company in Russia. In 2017, Forbes estimated 2016 revenue of 145 billion rubles (US$ billion), listing Red&White as the 51st largest private company in Russia. Revenue increased to 210 billion rubles (US$ billion) for 2017.
Forbes named Studennikov as one of the 200 richest businessmen of Russia in 2015 and 2016 with a net worth of about US$400 million, increasing to $550 million in their 2017 list. In October 2018, Bloomberg estimated Studennikov's net worth at over US$1 billion.
In October 2021, Mercury Retail Holding PLC, the owner of "Krasnoe & Beloe", submitted for an IPO at Moscow Exchange. Main stakeholders of “Mercury Retail” are Sergei Studennikov and his family- 49%, Igor Kesaev - 37% and Sergei K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSWL-LD | KSWL-LD (channel 17) is a low-power television station in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting alongside MyNetworkTV/MeTV/Telemundo affiliate KWWE-LD (channel 19). Both stations share studios on West Prien Lake Road in Lake Charles, while KSWL-LD's transmitter is located at the KTSR tower in Westlake.
History
In 2011, the FCC awarded the construction permit for the station, with the call sign of K17KH-D. The current KSWL-LD calls were adopted on February 10, 2017. Five days later, the station went on the air as the Lake Charles area's CBS affiliate.
KSWL-LD is the area's first CBS affiliate since the shutdown of its original CBS affiliate, KTAG-TV (UHF channel 25), in August 1961. Between that time, KLFY-TV in Lafayette served as the default CBS affiliate via cable for Southwestern Louisiana, while Beaumont affiliate KFDM was carried by a few cable providers in some areas of the market. Between KSWL-LD's sign-on as part of CBS, sister station KWWE-LD's sign on as a MyNetworkTV affiliate, and Fox affiliate KVHP launching ABC programming on its DT2 subchannel, the year 2017 marks the first time that the Lake Charles area has received over-the-air service from every major television network, having previously relied on cable television to supply network affiliates from Lafayette and Beaumont for CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and until 2009, The CW.
News operation
The station is unusual among CBS affiliates in that it carries no local news. However, it airs local weather inserts during CBS Mornings as well as a five-minute weathercast at the conclusion of CBS' prime time programming. KSWL also produces and airs two sports programs focused on Southwest Louisiana-area sports: Sound Off, which is a call-in show about secondary and postsecondary sports, and Poke Nation, covering sports at McNeese State University.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
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Low-power television stations in Louisiana
CBS network affiliates
Court TV affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
SagamoreHill Broadcasting
SWL-LD
Television channels and stations established in 2017
2017 establishments in Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball%20network | Eyeball network is a slang term used by network engineers and architects that refers to an access network whose primary users use the network to “look at things” (browse the Internet, read email, etc.) and consume content, as opposed to a network that may be used primarily to generate its own data, or “content networks/providers”.
The term “eyeball network” is often overheard in conversations and seen in articles that discuss peering relationships between other networks, as well as net neutrality issues.
An example of an eyeball network would be any given ISP that provides internet connectivity to end-users – The ISP may peer with Google (which is a content provider) where the end users consume content serviced/provided by Google, in this case the ISP is just an “eyeball network” providing a means for the end user to reach Google provided actual content.
However, it is to be noted that not all ISPs are eyeball networks, they can be pure transit providers. With Tier 2 networks and lower, they can serve as both an eyeball network and a transit provider, depending on their business model. In the modern day ecosystem where peering is given priority, the lines are blurred between the different types of networks as ultimately any given network must be able to reach every other given network on the internet at large.
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Slang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScyllaDB | ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL wide-column data store. It was designed to be compatible with Apache Cassandra while achieving significantly higher throughputs and lower latencies. It supports the same protocols as Cassandra (CQL and Thrift) and the same file formats (SSTable), but is a completely rewritten implementation, using the C++20 language replacing Cassandra's Java, and the Seastar asynchronous programming library replacing classic Linux programming techniques such as threads, shared memory and mapped files. In addition to implementing Cassandra's protocols, ScyllaDB also implements the Amazon DynamoDB API.
ScyllaDB uses a sharded design on each node, meaning that each CPU core handles a different subset of data. Cores do not share data, but rather communicate explicitly when they need to. The ScyllaDB authors claim that this design allows ScyllaDB to achieve much better performance on modern NUMA SMP machines, and to scale very well with the number of cores. They have measured as much as 2 million requests per second on a single machine, and also claim that a ScyllaDB cluster can serve as many requests as a Cassandra cluster 10 times its size – and do so with lower latencies. Independent testing has not always been able to confirm such 10-fold throughput improvements, and sometimes measured smaller speedups, such as 2x. A 2017 benchmark from Samsung observed the 10x speedup on high-end machines – the Samsung benchmark reported that ScyllaDB outperformed Cassandra on a cluster of 24-core machines by a margin of 10–37x depending on the YCSB workload.
ScyllaDB is available on-premises, on major public cloud providers, or as a DBaaS (ScyllaDB Cloud).
History
ScyllaDB was started in December 2014 by the startup Cloudius Systems (later renamed ScyllaDB Inc.), previously known for having created OSv. ScyllaDB was released as open source in September 2015, under the AGPL license. Employees of ScyllaDB Inc. remain the primary coders behind Scylla, but its development is open to the public and uses public GitHub repositories and public mailing lists.
References
External links
Scylla public GitHub repository, with source code repository and bug tracker
ScyllaDB Inc. homepage
ScyllaDB another contender to the open source NoSQL database crown
How Scylla Scaled to One Billion Rows a Second
ClickHouse Cost-Efficiency in Action: Analyzing 500 Billion Rows on an Intel NUC
Distributed data stores
Free software companies
NoSQL
Bigtable implementations
Free database management systems
Software that was rewritten in C++
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
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