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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 44th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which honors the crafts behind American daytime television programming, was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on April 28, 2017. The event was presented in conjunction with the 44th Daytime Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The nominations were announced on March 22, 2017, during a live episode of CBS's The Talk for the third year in a row. On January 26, 2017, it was announced that the Lifetime Achievement Award would be presented to Harry Friedman.
Category and rule changes
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced and implemented some category and rule changes for the 44th Daytime Emmy Awards, which include:
The previous two performer categories related to Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series were replaced by four categories:
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting or Guest Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting or Guest Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series
New categories were added to recognize work on Preschool Animated Programs:
Outstanding Directing in a Preschool Animated Program
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Preschool Animated Program
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Preschool Animated Program
The category Outstanding Musical Performance in a Talk Show/Morning Program was renamed Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, now honoring any Daytime Program, not just talk shows or morning programs.
The category Outstanding Children's Series was renamed Outstanding Children's and Family Viewing Series.
Directors in the category of Outstanding Directing in a Talk Show/Entertainment News or Morning Program now have the ability to select up to 5 episodes from the 2016 calendar year, that has a total running time of 40 minutes to submit for evaluation.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
Programs
Performers
Crafts
Drama
Non-Drama
References
044 Creative Arts
2016 television awards
2016 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Statistical%20Research%20Data%20Centers | Federal Statistical Research Data Centers are partnerships between U.S. federal government statistical agencies and leading research institutions to provide secure facilities located throughout the United States that provide access to restricted-use microdata for statistical purposes to authorized individuals. There are 29 FSRDCs across the country, primarily located at academic institutions and federal reserve banks.
History
The first Census Research Data Center (RDC) was in Suitland, Maryland at Census Bureau Headquarters, established at the same time as the Center for Economic Studies in 1982. The first remote RDC was established in Boston in 1994.
In 1998, the Census Bureau partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the Census Research Data Center program. Under this program, proposed new RDC core locations are evaluated for their potential contribution to scientific research. Approved location are provided initial financial support by the NSF. This program expansion was documented in 1998 Federal Register notice, Vol. 68 No. 14.
In 2016, the Census Research Data Center program was rebranded as the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) program. The FSRDCs include data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), from the Census Bureau, and data the Census Bureau collects on behalf of other agencies.
Locations
There are 29 FSRDCs around the United States:
Atlanta
Boston
California - Berkeley
California - Irvine
California - Stanford
California - UCLA
California - USC
Census Bureau Headquarters
Central Plains (Lincoln, Nebraska)
Chicago
Dallas-Fort Worth (opening in 2018)
Georgetown
Kansas City
Kentucky (Lexington)
Maryland (College Park)
Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Minnesota (Minneapolis)
Missouri (Columbia)
New York - Baruch
New York - Cornell
Northwest (Seattle)
Penn State
Philadelphia
Rocky Mountain (Colorado)
Texas (College Station)
Texas - UT Austin
Triangle - Duke
Triangle - RTI
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Opening 2018)
Wisconsin (Madison)
Yale
See also
Federal Statistical System of the United States
References
National statistical services
Federal Statistical System of the United States
United States Census Bureau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th%20Daytime%20Creative%20Arts%20Emmy%20Awards | The 45th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which honors the crafts behind American daytime television programming, were held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on April 27, 2018. The event was presented in conjunction with the 45th Daytime Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The nominations were announced on March 21, 2018, during a live episode of CBS's The Talk.
Two new categories for digital drama series—Outstanding Writing in a Digital Drama Series and Outstanding Directing in a Digital Drama Series—were added this year. The Outstanding Guest Performer in a Digital Daytime Drama Series category was also split out from the Supporting Actress and Supporting Actor categories for digital drama series.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.
Performers
Crafts
Notes
References
045 Creative Arts
2017 television awards
2017 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate%20Structure%20Database | Carbohydrate Structure Database (CSDB) is a free curated database and service platform in glycoinformatics, launched in 2005 by a group of Russian scientists from N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. CSDB stores published structural, taxonomical, bibliographic and NMR-spectroscopic data on natural carbohydrates and carbohydrate-related molecules.
Overview
The main data stored in CSDB are carbohydrate structures of bacterial, fungal, and plant origin. Each structure is assigned to an organism and is provided with the link(s) to the corresponding scientific publication(s), in which it was described. Apart from structural data, CSDB also stores NMR spectra, information on methods used to decipher a particular structure, and some other data.
CSDB provides access to several carbohydrate-related research tools:
Simulation of 1D and 2D NMR spectra of carbohydrates (GODDESS: glycan-oriented database-driven empirical spectrum simulation).
Automated NMR-based structure elucidation (GRASS: generation, ranking and assignment of saccharide structures).
Statistical analysis of structural feature distribution in glycomes of living organisms
Generation of optimized atomic coordinates for an arbitrary saccharide and subdatabase of conformation maps.
Taxon clustering based on similarities of glycomes (carbohydrate-based tree of life)
Glycosyltransferase subdatabase (GT-explorer)
History and funding
Until 2015, Bacterial Carbohydrate Structure Database (BCSDB) and Plant&Fungal Carbohydrate Structure Database (PFCSDB) databases existed in parallel. In 2015, they were joined into the single Carbohydrate Structure Database (CSDB). The development and maintenance of CSDB have been funded by International Science and Technology Center (2005-2007), Russian Federation President grant program (2005-2006), Russian Foundation for Basic Research (2005-2007,2012-2014,2015-2017,2018-2020), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (short-term in 2006-2010), and Russian Science Foundation (2018-2020).
Data sources and coverage
The main sources of CSDB data are:
Scientific publications indexed in the dedicated citation databases, including NCBI Pubmed and Thomson Reuters Web Of Science (approx. 18000 records).
CCSD (Carbbank ) database (approx. 3000 records).
The data are selected and added to CSDB manually by browsing original scientific publications. The data originating from other databases are subject to error-correction and approval procedures.
As of 2017, the coverage on bacteria and archaea is ca. 80% of carbohydrate structures published in scientific literature The time lag between the publication of relative data and their deposition into CSDB is about 18 months. Plants are covered up to 1997, and fungi up to 2012.
CSDB does not cover data from the animalia domain, except unicellular metazoa. There is a number of dedicated databases on animal carbohydrates, e.g. UniCarbKB or GLYCOSCIENCES.de.
CSDB is reported as one of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20League | Fox League is an Australian subscription television channel dedicated to screening rugby league (both domestic and international) matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited and is available throughout Australia on Foxtel. The channel was launched on 27 February 2017.
History
On 27 November 2015, the Australian Rugby League Commission announced that Fox Sports had secured the rights to air all National Rugby League games excluding the NRL Grand Final live for the 2018-22 seasons. Additionally, it was announced that the current rights agreement had been altered to allow Fox Sports to also have the live rights for all games excluding the Grand Final for the 2016 and 2017 seasons, however, a dedicated yet-to-be-named NRL channel to showcase these rights would not launch until the 2017 season.
In February 2017 it was announced the new channel would be called Fox League and would officially launch on 27 February 2017. Ultimately, Fox League replaced Fox Sports 2 on channel 502.
In 2017, the NRL preliminary finals had 418,000 and 407,000 viewers. In 2020, Fox League began carried in Canada on the pay streaming service DAZN.
Programming
Event coverage
Sports programming on Fox League includes the following:
National Rugby League (2017–present; every game live except the Grand Final)
Challenge Cup (2017–present)
Super League (2017–present; three live games per weekend)
Pacific Rugby League Internationals (2017–present)
The Knock On Effect NSW Cup (2017–present; one or two games per weekend & Finals)
Hostplus Cup (2017–present; One Finals Series Game Live each weekend & Grand Final Live)
NRL State Championship (2017–present)
Pre Season Challenge (2017–present)
Charity Shield (2017–present)
Harvey Norman All-Stars (2017–present)
International Rugby League (2017–present)
NRL Women's Premiership (2018–present)
Rugby League European Championship (2018–present)
Rugby League World Cup 9s (2019–present)
Pacific Rugby League Championship (2019–present)
Rugby League World Cup (2022–present)
Women's Rugby League World Cup (2022–present)
Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup (2022–present)
Koori Knockout (2022–present)
RFL Championship (2023–present)
Special events
Dally M Awards (2017–present)
Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame (2018–present)
News and analysis programming
Fox League airs several studio shows including the programs listed below:
Kia Thursday Night Football (2017–present)
VB Friday Night Footy (2017–present)
Bundaberg Rum NRL Super Saturday (2017–present)
Chemist Warehouse Sunday Ticket (2017–present)
KFC Monday Football (2017-present; occasional)
The Late Show With Matty Johns (2017–present)
Sunday Night with Matty Johns (2017–present)
NRL 360 (2017–present)
NRL Tonight (2017–present)
The Fan (2018–present)
The Matty Johns Podcast (2019–present)
The Final 5 (2020–present)
Top 5 Rivalries (2020–present)
Vossy's Awesome 80s (2020–present)
Season's Best (2020–present)
Former programming
League 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage%20gardens%20in%20Australia | This page combines data from a dozen written reference books about Australian heritage gardens, from 200 years of garden heritage. Private gardens have been excluded from the list.
2017 Bicentennial celebrations
Bicentennial celebrations were held at Woolmers, Tasmania, and the National Rose Garden in 2017. Both the Australian Heritage Register, Australian States (e.g. NSW, VIC) and the National Trust of Australia protect heritage gardens and trees, but Local Authorities normally only list and protect built properties rather than their heritage-listed gardens alone. The National Trust of Tasmania does not maintain a publicly available list of registered properties.
Similarly, the Tasmanian Heritage Register is constructed just of addresses, rather than with the discernible reason why a property is heritage listed. An enquirer must apply directly to the THR office for the heritage document for each address,
The Tasmanian Heritage Register is being deliberately reduced in size, and currently over 500 Hobart locations are due for heritage removal. Similar heritage lists include the List of historic homesteads in Australia, the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, and The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty in the UK.
Index of heritage and renowned Australian gardens
Heritage gardens of the Australian Capital Territory
Heritage and renowned gardens of New South Wales
Heritage Gardens in the Northern Territory
Heritage gardens of Queensland
Heritage gardens in South Australia
Heritage gardens in Tasmania
Heritage and renowned gardens in Victoria
Heritage gardens in Western Australia
Index Sources – 13 reference books summarised below.
Index source references
References
Notes
Lists of gardens
Gardens in Australia
Lists of tourist attractions in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive%20Password | Intuitive Password is a proprietary freemium password manager and secure digital wallet that stores users' passwords and confidential data. It was launched in 2013 by the Australian company Intuitive Security Systems. Intuitive Password received mixed reviews. Neil J. Rubeking wrote in PC Magazine in 2013 that Intuitive Password's not having automated password capture like some of its competitors was a significant downside.
History
The program was developed by an Australian company, Intuitive Security Systems Pty. Ltd., and uses Advanced Encryption Standard-256. It was launched in mid-2013.
Product
To create a free Intuitive Password account, users supply an email address, a master password, and a self-populated security question and answer. In the program's "Logins category", users can save website, database, and server logins. In the "Accounts category", users can store their credentials for email accounts, instant messaging accounts, and wireless routers. In the "Wallets" category, users can store their credit card information. In the "Licenses" category, users can store credentials for their software and hunting license. In the "Identifications" category, users can store IDs like library cards.
Intuitive Password lets clients use two kinds of two-factor authentication. The first factor is a master password. The second factor is either an authentication code sent through text message to a user's cellphone or Google Authenticator. It has configurable options to email users for every log in or to block different countries from logging in. Very confidential information can be protected by a second master password. Intuitive Password permits users to safely share authentication details with others who are using it. For logging in to public computers, users can generate a single-use password for authentication.
Features
AES-256 encryption
Automatic logins and password capturing
Password generator
Security dashboard
Two-factor authentication
Auto logout
Emergency access mode
Custom folder management
Offline access mode
Reception
In a 2013 Softpedia review, Gabriela Vatu said Intuitive Password was "an easy-to-use app, with a clean interface and what looks like strong security in place to protect user data".
In a 2013 PC Magazine review, Neil J. Rubeking rated the program as "Fair" and wrote, "the lack of automated password capture and replay will be a deal-breaker for many users". In a 2015 PC Magazine review, Rubeking rated the program as "Good".
See also
Comparison of password managers
Cryptography
List of password managers
Password manager
References
External links
Password managers
Cross-platform software
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Universal Windows Platform apps
MacOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Himalayan%20Database | The Himalayan Database: The Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley is a large digital and published record of mountaineering in the Nepalese Himalayas since 1903 (i.e. it does not include the Pakistan Himalaya peaks such as K2 and Nanga Parbat etc.), maintained by Richard Salisbury who digitised the records.
Background
The Himalayan Database (HDB), was developed and maintained by Elizabeth Hawley, who remained involved up to her death in 2018. It was published as a CD and an 80-page paperback up until 2017. From 2017 onwards, records of expeditions, their members have been searchable online, or available as a complete downloadable database. It fills in for the absence of officially maintained records. It has been published by the American Alpine Club.
As well as being an important repository for climbing statistics on Himalayan mountains, the database also became known for its decisions to disregard or dispute various climbs. Notable cases was the decision not to record a 1990 ascent of Cho Oyu by British climber Alan Hinkes, which put a question-mark over Hinkes' claim to have summited all 14 eight-thousanders; and the 1997 ascent of Lhotse by Italian climbers Fausto De Stefani and Sergio Martini which forced Sergio Martini to reclimb Lhotse in 2000 to verify he had climbed all 14 eight-thousanders (De Stefani decided not to re-climb).
Bibliography
See also
Eight-thousanders
List of Mount Everest records
References
External links
The Himalayan Database, main website for the database
Graphical Interface for The Himalayan Database
Mountaineering books
Himalayas
Books about the Himalayas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle%20Municipal%20Street%20Railway | The Seattle Municipal Street Railway was a city-owned streetcar network that served the city of Seattle, Washington and its suburban neighborhoods from 1919 to 1941. It was a successor to the horse-drawn Seattle Street Railway established in 1884, and immediate successor to the Puget Sound Traction, Power and Light Company Seattle division.
History
Origins and consolidation
The first streetcars in Seattle were operated by Frank Osgood as the Seattle Street Railway, which ran horsecars starting from September 23, 1884. Osgood went on to convert the horsecars to electric traction as the Seattle Electric Railway and Power Company, beginning with a test on March 30, 1889 and followed by regular service the next day. By 1891, Seattle had of street railway tracks, of which had been built since 1889.
In 1898, Stone & Webster began assembling a transit system by consolidating several smaller streetcar lines, including the Seattle Electric Railway. By 1900, Stone & Webster had amalgamated 22 lines and gained a 40-year operating franchise under a new power and transport utility named the Seattle Electric Company. The system also included cable car lines on Madison Street and Yesler Way. By the end of 1900, the City Council, under public pressure, forced Seattle Electric to provide free transfers between lines, and reduced their lease to 35-years. In 1907, Stone & Webster also acquired the lease to the Everett streetcar system, and in 1912 it combined all of its transit and utility holdings in the area under a new company, the Puget Sound Traction, Power and Light Company (PSTP&L).
Municipal acquisition
The City of Seattle entered into direct competition with Seattle Electric by furnishing electricity in 1905 after completing the Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant. As Seattle Electric was distinctly unpopular with the citizens of Seattle and prevented by a state mandate, several requests for fare increases from the existing 5 cents were denied; meanwhile, there was an increasing need to transport tens of thousands of workers responding to the demand for ships resulting from World War I. High shipworker wages and the lack of fare increases meant that by early summer 1918, approximately of Seattle Electric's cars were idle because they could not pay operators enough. In September 1918, PSTP&L agreed to sell its lines to the city, and several months of increasingly acrimonious negotiations followed.
On March 31, 1919, the city of Seattle purchased the entire Seattle division of PSTP&L's street railways but the price of the acquisition, , left the transit operation with an immense debt and an immediate need to raise fares, which hurt ridership. By 1936, the city still owed half the principal on the 1918 bonds used to purchase the system, and was faced with a $4 million operating deficit. In 1939, a new transportation agency, the Seattle Transit System, was formed, which refinanced the remaining debt and began replacing equipment with "trackless |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20News%20Today | MBC News Today () is an early morning newscast broadcast of weekdays at 5:00 KST. Its anchored by Park Chang-Heon.
References
South Korean television news shows
MBC TV original programming
2002 South Korean television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ibovi | Šibovi () is a settlement in the Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska entity, Kotor Varoš Municipality.
According to the data on Census Year of 1991, in this populated place lived 671 citizens.
Population
See also
Kotor Varoš
References
Villages in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeker%20%28media%20company%29 | Seeker (stylized See<er) is an American digital media network and content publisher based in San Francisco, California. The network was established in 2015 within a former independent division of Discovery Communications known as Discovery Digital Networks. Seeker produces online video and editorial content for the digital media landscape, with an emphasis on social platforms and YouTube.
History
Seeker was relaunched in May 2016 in an effort by Discovery Digital Networks to reach millennial audiences looking to satisfy their curiosity by immersing themselves in science, technology and culture. The network was initially launched in March 2015, with a focus on exploration and adventure.
In October 2016, Seeker was acquired by the newly founded Group Nine Media, along with Thrillist Media Group, NowThis News, The Dodo and SourceFed Studios. This new media group earned a $100 Million investment from Discovery Communications, and is under the leadership of former Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer.
Properties
Seeker's YouTube Channel (also called Seeker; formerly DNews) surpassed more than 4 million YouTube subscribers in August 2019.
In 2015, Seeker's program Rituals, with Laura Ling, was nominated for an Emmy. A Seeker Stories documentary co-produced with the ONE Campaign about energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa was honored with a Shorty Award in 2016. Seeker Daily, a short-form news show, partnered with YouTube to cover the 2016 Republican & Democratic Party national conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
In 2016, Seeker began producing content for virtual reality headsets. Seeker VR content is also distributed on YouTube. and the DiscoveryVR app. Addison O'Dea was among the first to create original films for them, including explorations into the origins of voodoo in West Africa and explorations into the Sahara to find ancient Koranic libraries.
In May 2018, Seeker launched a new vertical, "Seeker Universe". The channel is dedicated to outer-space content and intended for a millennial audience.
In June 2018, Seeker partnered with Discovery to launch "The Swim", a multi-platform franchise following Ben Lecomte's 5,000-mile-long swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco in an effort to gain awareness on the state of ocean health from pollution. His six-month journey was available to viewers across multiple platforms, a mid-form video series on Seeker's channels and Discovery GO, short-form social videos, weekly Instagram Stories, weekly TV Swim updates on Discovery channel, and the project culminates with a feature-length documentary later in 2019.
In April 2019, Seeker released its new YouTube series "SICK", which looks at how diseases work in the human body. Each episode covers a different disease and brings in researchers and doctors to explain them.
In July 2019, Seeker partnered with Discovery on a one-hour television special, Confessions from Space, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Gilbert%20%28printer%29 | Richard Gilbert (1794–1852) was an English printer and compiler of reference works.
Life
He was born in St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, London, the son Robert Gilbert, died 10 January 1815 aged 51, was a printer and partner in the firm of Law & Gilbert of St. John's Square. He started life as an accountant of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in Bartlett's Buildings. On the death of his father, he joined his brother Robert, who died in 1818, as a printer at St. John's Square.
Gilbert's business expanded as a result of his marriage in 1823. On the death of his brother-in-law George Byrom Whittaker, on 13 December 1847, the family acquired a fortune, and his only son, Robert Gilbert, succeeded to his uncle's share in the business as a wholesale bookseller and publisher. In 1830 Gilbert, who had since his brother's death carried on the printing business alone, took into partnership William Rivington, youngest son of Charles Rivington III, the bookseller of Waterloo Place, and as Gilbert & Rivington continued the establishment until his death.
Attached to the Church of England, Gilbert was involved in the building of St Philip's and St Mark's churches in the Clerkenwell area. In 1841 he was elected one of the stockkeepers of the Company of Stationers; he was for many years one of the general committee of the Royal Literary Fund; and he was a governor of Christ's Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He died at 70 Euston Square, London, 26 February 1852, aged 58, and was buried in the vaults of St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, on 4 March.
Works
Gilbert wrote and published in 1829 the Liber Scholasticus; a second edition was The Parent's School and College Guide (1843). He compiled and edited the Clerical Guide or Ecclesiastical Directory from 1817. He also planned and edited The Clergyman's Almanack, 1818, and Gilbert's Clergyman's Almanack and Churchman's Miscellany, 1835, both published by the Company of Stationers.
Family
Gilbert married, on 11 September 1823, Anne, only daughter of the Rev. George Whittaker of Northfleet, and sister of George Byrom Whittaker, bookseller and publisher.
Notes
Attribution
1794 births
1852 deaths
English printers
Publishers (people) from London
English book editors
People from Clerkenwell
19th-century English businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Gesture%20Search | Google Gesture Search was released on March 3, 2010 as a new application for the Android Eclair operating system (Android 2.0) and above, which enabled users to search their phone's contacts, bookmarks, applications and music simply by scribbling out letters with their finger.
Release
Gesture Search was based on the early research work and primarily developed by Yang Li, a Research Scientist at Google. At the time of its launch, the application was made available only to the elite devices such as the Google Nexus One & the Motorola Milestone and was regarded as an extension to Google's handwriting recognition programme, prominently available only in the US. In order to be able to access the Gesture Search, one had to first launch the application and then proceed with actions / scribblings as required; as opposed to the modern Google Search which tends to be universally available (without having to trigger the Search application).
Notable updates
On June 8, 2011, Google Labs enabled an API for Gesture Search that gave developers access to integrate the feature within their own Android apps as well where the users could gesture to write text and search for application-specific data.
Google also updated Gesture Search for Android with support for over 40 languages and transliteration.
Also, as reported on July 28, 2014, the Google Gesture Search v2.1.4 added a new widget on the Android Smartphone devices that allowed users to quickly launch recently used applications, while this was shown as a pop-up on Android Tablets.
The product was discontinued in 2017.
References
Android (operating system) software
Gesture Search |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20PD | Live PD was an American television program that aired on the A&E Network from 2016 to 2020. It followed police officers in the course of their patrols live, broadcasting interactions with the public. The show was hosted by Dan Abrams with analysis provided by Tom Morris Jr. and Sgt. Sean "Sticks" Larkin.
The program premiered on October 28, 2016, with an initial order from A&E for four two-hour episodes. On February 1, 2017, A&E announced that the season would be expanded to 21 episodes. The first season concluded on August 19, 2017, with the second season premiering on October 6, 2017. The second season concluded on August 25, 2018, with the third season premiering on September 21, 2018; that same month, A&E renewed the series for an additional 150 episodes, to run through 2019. The fourth season premiered on September 20, 2019. On May 7, 2020, the series was renewed for an additional 160 episodes. However, on June 10, 2020, A&E canceled the series in the wake of protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd and the destruction of the video footage of the killing of Javier Ambler.
At the time of cancellation, Live PD was the most watched show on A&E and the most watched show on cable during prime time on Friday. After the cancellation of Live PD, A&E's viewership went down 49% in the following months. On August 21, 2020, A&E began airing new episodes of spin-off series Live Rescue, which focuses on firefighters and EMTs, on Friday and Saturday nights in the same time slot.
Two of the three hosts began hosting a new show titled On Patrol: Live on Reelz on July 22, 2022. That show also runs for three hours every Friday and Saturday night.
Overview
Live PD was hosted by Dan Abrams, the chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News. The program featured live video feeds from multiple law enforcement agencies throughout the United States. Departments included the Lawrence Police Department, Clay County Sheriff's Office, Richland County Sheriff's Department, Tulsa Police Department, Williamson County Sheriff's Office, Berkeley County Sheriff's Department, and the Pomona Police Department.
Abrams was joined in-studio by two co-analysts: former Washington, D.C., special police officer and crime reporter Tom Morris Jr. and Sgt. Sean "Sticks" Larkin of the Tulsa PD. Occasionally, the trio were joined by a law enforcement officer that had been featured on the show in the field.
Because of the risk of confidential or otherwise inappropriate material being aired, A&E imposed a broadcast delay on the show which may range from a few seconds to several minutes.
Live PD was frequently the top-rated cable program on Friday and Saturday nights.
Throughout the month of April 2020, Live PD was broadcast under an amended format which focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on police officers and first responders. In June 2020, A&E pulled episodes from its schedule in the wake of George Floyd's murder while in police custody in Minne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20Discourse%20Analysis%20Package | Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package (qdap) is an R package for computer assisted qualitative data analysis, particularly quantitative discourse analysis, transcript analysis and natural language processing. Qdap is installable from, and runs within, the R system.
Qdap is a tool for quantitative analysis of qualitative transcripts and therefore provides a bridge between quantitative and qualitative research approaches. It is designed for transcript analysis, but its features overlap with natural language processing and text mining.
Its features include:
tools for the preparation of transcript data
frequency counts of sentence types, words, sentences, turns of talk, syllables
aggregation using grouping variables
word extracting and visualization
statistical analysis.
For higher level statistical analysis and visualization of text, qdap is integrated with R and offers integration with other R packages.
Alternatives
KH Coder (Windows, Linux, macOS) for quantitative content analysis and text mining.
See also
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
References
External links
qdap manual
qdap developer website
Text Mining First-step Report
Free QDA software
Cross-platform free software
Free R (programming language) software
Science software for macOS
Science software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopkins%20statistic | The Hopkins statistic (introduced by Brian Hopkins and John Gordon Skellam) is a way of measuring the cluster tendency of a data set. It belongs to the family of sparse sampling tests. It acts as a statistical hypothesis test where the null hypothesis is that the data is generated by a Poisson point process and are thus uniformly randomly distributed. If individuals are aggregated, then its value approaches 0, and if they are randomly distributed, the value tends to 0.5.
Preliminaries
A typical formulation of the Hopkins statistic follows.
Let be the set of data points.
Generate a random sample of data points sampled without replacement from .
Generate a set of uniformly randomly distributed data points.
Define two distance measures,
the minimum distance (given some suitable metric) of to its nearest neighbour in , and
the minimum distance of to its nearest neighbour
Definition
With the above notation, if the data is dimensional, then the Hopkins statistic is defined as:
Under the null hypotheses, this statistic has a Beta(m,m) distribution.
Notes and references
External links
http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/assessing-clustering-tendency-a-vital-issue-unsupervised-machine-learning
Clustering criteria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201985%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1985, 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
1985 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1985 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dinotrux%20episodes | Dinotrux is a computer-animated web television series. It is based on Chris Gall's illustrated children's book series, which features a fictional prehistoric world inhabited by hybrid characters that are part reptile and part mechanical tool referred to as Reptools. The series debuted on August 14, 2015 on Netflix, while the second season was released on March 11, 2016, the third on October 7, 2016, the fourth on March 31, 2017, the fifth on August 18, 2017, the sixth on November 10, 2017, the seventh on March 23, 2018, and the eighth on August 3, 2018.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Set in the Mechazoic era of a prehistoric world populated by hybrid dinosaur-construction vehicles called Dinotrux, and hybrid reptile-tools called Reptools, Two best friends, Ty, a Tyrannosaurus Trux, and Revvit, a Reptool, must team up with other inhabitants of the world to defend their community and their work from an evil T-Trux, named D-Structs. It's time to 'Trux It Up'. The series premiered on August 14, 2015, when the first ten episodes were released.
Season 2 (2016)
The adventure continues with Ty, Revvit, and the rest of the Trux as they make new friends, new enemies and face all new challenges. With danger and mystery around every corner, these half-dinosaur, half-truck and all awesome friends will 'Trux It Up' to build a better world. 13 episodes of the second season were released on Netflix on March 11, 2016.
Season 3 (2016)
As the Dinotrux continue make their community bigger and better, new enemies come to challenge Ty, Revvit and the rest of their friends. But with bigger builds, new Dinotrux and Reptools soon to follow, these half-dinosaur, half-construction vehicle and all awesome friends are more determined than ever to build their way out of any situation. 16 episodes of the third season were released on Netflix on October 7, 2016.
Season 4 (2017)
With new trux, new locations and new responsibilities, Ty and the trux will have their work cut out for them, but nothing will stop these guys from protecting their community, battling the forces of evil and, most importantly, building a better world. So get ready for more action, new friends and new challenges, 'cause it's time to Trux it up!
Season 5 (2017)
Picking up where things left off from last season, Ty and the gang have dozens of new trux to transition into their ever-growing community, but nothing could have prepared him for the challenges ahead. Still, with his friends by his side and new dangers to contend with, Ty will always be ready to Trux it up, even against a new Trux that even he can't stop alone.
Season 6 (2017) Supercharged
Ty and the Trux are back and thanks to a hive of Superchargers, they're ready to have more Supercharged fun, build new Supercharged things and battle new Supercharged enemies. So prepare yourselves for some Supercharged action because it's time to Super-Trux it up!
Season 7 (2018) Supercharged
Ty and the gang find that things are getting easier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency%20banking%20model | The agency banking model is a function of certain commercial banks in Kenya. The activity is regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya, which allows banks to contract third-party retail networks as a Banking agent. Upon successful application, vetting, and approval, these agents are authorized to offer selected products and services on behalf of the bank.
Definition
A banking agent in Kenya is a commercial entity that has been contracted by a commercial bank and approved by the Central Bank of Kenya to provide specific services on behalf of the bank. This entity is equipped with the skills necessary to provide basic banking services according to standards set by the Bank.
This allows the banking agent entity to access financial products and services at a location nearest to the customer, thus breaking down certain barriers to financial inclusion such as cost and accessibility.
Approved financial activities
Activities that a banking agent can engage in are determined by the contracting bank after assessment of the applying entity. Some of these include:
Cash withdrawal
Bill payment
Cash deposits
Funds transfer
Balance inquiry
Document collection for debit and credit cards, loan applications, and account opening
Collecting bank correspondence and mail
Mobile banking services
Agency banking transactions are denominated in Kenyan shillings.
Prohibited activities
Execute transactions during network and/or communication failure.
Charge customers any fees
Carry out agency banking business when an agent is no longer contracted by a bank
Offer its own banking services apart from the sponsoring bank
Perform anti-money laundering services
Conduct foreign exchange transactions
Deposit checks or engage in encashing
Provision cash advances and loans
Subcontract to any business to run its agency banking
When an agency continues to perform prohibited activities, their contract may be terminated.
References
Banking in Kenya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest%20Red | Quest Red is a British free-to-air television channel in the United Kingdom broadcasting factual, lifestyle, crime and reality programming aimed at a female audience. The channel is operated by Warner Bros. Discovery and runs as a sibling to Discovery's established Freeview channel Quest, launched in 2009.
History
In mid-February 2017, shortly after the completion of an eleventh-hour carriage deal with Sky to retain a presence on the satellite platform for its current and future channels, Discovery Communications head David Zaslav told a corporate conference call that a second Freeview channel, to sit alongside Quest, would launch during 2017.
The following day, more details of the channel were confirmed, including its name and branding (which will include a red version of the Quest 'Q' channel symbol), content (some of which will be shared with sibling channels such as ID and TLC), and launch date of 15 March.
The station will be available as a free-to-air channel on the Freeview platform (and, by extension, to users of the BT and TalkTalk YouView platforms), and on the subscription satellite and cable platforms operated by Sky and Virgin Media UK and Republic of Ireland.
At launch, the channel was, like Quest, encrypted on satellite and thus not available on Freesat. Quest and Quest Red removed their encryption and began broadcasting free-to-air over satellite in June 2017, and were added to the Freesat guide early in July.
A full one-hour timeshifted variant of Quest Red was launched on the Sky platform in tandem with the launch of the principal channel. From 14 June 2017, Quest Red +1 was made available to Freeview users for three hours a day in the early morning, taking over the capacity vacated by the earlier relocation of Quest +1 to a different, longer slot. On 28 November 2017, Quest Red +1 launched on Freesat.
Unlike Sky, Freeview & Freesat, Quest Red +1 is not on Virgin Media
At launch, Quest Red wasn't available to Sky Ireland and Northern Ireland viewers due to a carriage agreement with Raidió Teilifís Éireann that allowed RTÉ One and RTÉ2 to be available on the EPG in Northern Ireland and also that the channel was channel 162 in the British guide. As part of Sky's major EPG reshuffle on 1 May 2018, Quest Red (and +1) became available to both Ireland and Northern Ireland customers, in addition to moving to 149 for Great Britain customers, a slot they acquired from ITV Digital Channels Ltd, who previously had ITVBe on that slot apart from regions where STV is on channel 103.
Launch
Advance listings information indicated that the first programme screened on the channel would be an episode of Homes Under the Hammer. Ahead of broadcast, this was changed: Extreme Couponing, which had initially been due to follow HUtH in the schedule, was brought forward to 10am, with HUtH following at 11am.
A placeholder for Quest Red was made available on the Virgin Media platform early in the morning of 15 March, ahead of the channel's launch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggett | Raggett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dave Raggett (born 1955), English computer specialist
Jonathan Raggett (born 1992), English actor
Matthew Raggett (born 1972), educator, writer, and school headmaster
Sean Raggett (born 1994), English footballer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout%20%28software%20engineering%29 | Brownout in software engineering is a technique that involves disabling certain features of an application.
Description
Brownout is used to increase the robustness of an application to computing capacity shortage. If too many users are simultaneously accessing an application hosted online, the underlying computing infrastructure may become overloaded, rendering the application unresponsive. Users are likely to abandon the application and switch to competing alternatives, hence incurring long-term revenue loss. To better deal with such a situation, the application can be given brownout capabilities: The application will disable certain features – e.g., an online shop will no longer display recommendations of related products – to avoid overload. Although reducing features generally has a negative impact on the short-term revenue of the application owner, long-term revenue loss can be avoided.
The technique is inspired by brownouts in power grids, which consists in reducing the power grid's voltage in case electricity demand exceeds production. Some consumers, such as incandescent light bulbs, will dim – hence originating the term – and draw less power, thus helping match demand with production. Similarly, a brownout application helps match its computing capacity requirements to what is available on the target infrastructure.
Brownout complements elasticity. The former can help the application withstand short-term capacity shortage, but does so without changing the capacity available to the application. In contrast, elasticity consists of adding (or removing) capacity to the application, preferably in advance, so as to avoid capacity shortage altogether. The two techniques can be combined; e.g., brownout is triggered when the number of users increases unexpectedly until elasticity can be triggered, the latter usually requiring minutes to show an effect.
Brownout is relatively non-intrusive for the developer, for example, it can be implemented as an advice in aspect-oriented programming. However, surrounding components, such as load-balancers, need to be made brownout-aware to distinguish between cases where an application is running normally and cases where the application maintains a low response time by triggering brownout.
References
Software engineering
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Lee%20Network | The Don Lee Network, sometimes called the Don Lee Broadcasting System was an American regional network of radio stations in the old-time radio era.
Origin
Don Lee made a fortune as the exclusive West Coast distributor of Cadillac automobiles. He expanded into broadcasting by purchasing radio stations KFRC in San Francisco in 1926 and KHJ in Los Angeles in 1927. The stations were connected by telephone circuits and in December 1928 the Don Lee Broadcasting System was formed. Within a month, KMJ in Fresno, California; KWG in Stockton, California; and KFBK in Sacramento, California, had joined the network. By 1938, 28 stations were affiliated with the Don Lee network.
Lee died in 1934, leaving his son, Thomas S. Lee, to oversee the network's operation.
Relationships with other networks
In 1929, Don Lee Network and CBS entered into an agreement that created the Don Lee-Columbia Network, making the Lee stations the West Coast affiliates for CBS. The joint operation was launched on January 1, 1930. A typical schedule had the network carrying CBS programs in the early evening. When those ended at 8 p.m. Pacific Time, either KFRC or KHJ provided network programs, with the two usually alternating evenings. Some of the programs originating at one of the Lee stations were also transmitted nationally by CBS.
After initial success and expansion, disagreement over programming autonomy for stations led to the dissolution of the agreement. Any hopes for continuing the Don Lee-CBS partnership vanished when CBS bought radio station KNX in 1936, making CBS a competitor of KHJ in the Los Angeles market. After the separation, some stations left to become West Coast affiliates of NBC. The stations remaining with Don Lee joined the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Affiliating with Don Lee Network enabled Mutual to go coast to coast across the United States. The change, announced on June 27, 1936, added Lee's California affiliated stations to those already connected with Mutual. The expanded Don Lee-Mutual network began operations on December 30, 1936. After that affiliation, Lee continued independent operations, transmitting only certain Mutual programs to stations on the Lee network. Elizabeth McLeod wrote in her article, "Local Voices: The Don Lee and Yankee Networks", that the arrangement "was the best of both worlds — the freedom and local flavor of a regional chain, combined with the resources, when needed, of a national hookup. This was the philosophy of Mutual itself, and it tied in well with the way Don Lee had always tried to do business in the past ...".
Original programming
Bill Oates, in his biography, Meredith Willson - America's Music Man: The Whole Broadway-Symphonic-Radio-Motion Picture Story, noted:During the early 1930s, before regular broadcasting flowed endlessly from coast to coast from the network hubs in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and because of the time differences, West coast stations presented a great deal of network quality original |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche%20Digitale%20Bibliothek | The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) or DDB is a virtual library in the German language which networks 30,000 cultural and research institutions and aims to make them freely accessible to the public using a common platform. A beta version of the portal with, according to its own information, about 5.6 million objects, went online on 28 November 2012. The first full version was launched on 31 March 2014. The aim is to integrate the DDB into Europeana at the European level.
Literature
References
External links
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek bei Twitter und Facebook
Dokumentation des API der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek
Portal für Datenpartner der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek
Informationen der Bundesregierung zur Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek
Mirko Smiljanic: Per Mausklick zum nationalen Kulturerbe. Die Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek geht ans Netz In: Deutschlandfunk (DLF). Hintergrund Politik. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
Homepage des Archivportals-D, der spartenspezifische Zugang zu Archivdaten der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek.
German digital libraries
Publications established in 2012
Libraries established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Blaze%20and%20the%20Monster%20Machines%20episodes | Blaze and the Monster Machines is a CGI-animated computer-animated interactive children's television series with a focus on teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) that premiered on Nickelodeon on October 13, 2014. The series revolves around Blaze, a monster truck, and his driver, AJ, as they have adventures in Axle City and learn about various STEM concepts which help them on their way. Joining them is the human mechanic Gabby and their monster truck friends Stripes, Starla, Darington and Zeg as well as their rival Crusher and his sidekick Pickle. Then later on, Watts joins the main cast in Season 3.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2014–15)
Season 2 (2015–16)
Season 3 (2016–18)
Season 4 (2018–19)
Season 5 (2019–20)
Season 6 (2020–22)
Season 7 (2022–23)
Shorts (2020)
Monster Machine Halloween
The Monster Machine Christmas Extravaganza
Blaze Family Photos
Pickle's Ocean Adventures
Pickle's Pirate Professionals
Notes
References
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Canadian children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Nickelodeon television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27%20Originals | D' Originals is a 2017 Philippine television drama revenge series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Adolfo B. Alix Jr., it stars Jaclyn Jose, LJ Reyes and Kim Domingo. It premiered on April 17, 2017 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Pinulot Ka Lang sa Lupa. The series concluded on July 7, 2017 with a total of 60 episodes. It was replaced by Haplos in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The series focuses on how far the wives would go to catch their husbands, deal with the other women and keep their families and self-respect intact.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jaclyn Jose as Jocelyn "Josie" Flores-Magpayo
LJ Reyes as Marjorie "Marge" Pineda-Tolentino
Kim Domingo as Sofia Abella-Godinez
Supporting cast
Katrina Halili as Yvette Benitez
Meg Imperial as Alice Perez
Lovely Abella as Cristina "Tina" Pineda
Jestoni Alarcon as Rolando "Lando" Magpayo
Mark Herras as Carlos "Caloy" Tolentino
Archie Alemania as Arthur "Art" Godinez
Mikoy Morales as Tim Flores Magpayo
Chlaui Malayao as Macy Flores Magpayo
Elyson de Dios as Darren
Arny Ross as Precious
Dex Quindoza as Emman
Guest cast
Coleen Perez as Sally
Elle Ramirez as Tanya
Manuel Chua as Raul
Marx Topacio as Henry
Antonette Garcia as Chef Ria
Princess Guevarra as Angel
Mara Alberto as Joanna Marie
Kirst Viray as Richard
Kenneth Ocampo as Mac
Arvic James Tan as Jason
Raquel Monteza as Minerva
Erlinda Villalobos as Manang Pacing
Dex Quindoza as Emman
Jasper Visaya as Dwight
Rain Quite as Kenzo
Aprilyn Gustillo as April
Andrea Torres as Gina
Ina Raymundo as Liza
Imelda Papin as herself
Kim Last as Dan
Alonzo Muhlach as Thor Perez-Godinez
Gardo Versoza as Greg "Chef Logo" Batumbakal
Diana Zubiri-Smith as Isabel "Sabel" Buenaventura
Maui Taylor as Gigi
Andy Smith as Sofia's suitor
Gina Alajar as the fourth original
Episodes
April 2017
May 2017
June 2017
July 2017
Production
Principal photography commenced on February 21, 2017.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of D' Originals earned a 5.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 5.4% rating.
References
External links
2017 Philippine television series debuts
2017 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Television shows set in Quezon City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyway%20%28disambiguation%29 | A flyway is a bird migration flight path
Flyway may also refer to:
Flyway (magazine), Iowa State University journal
Flyway (software), a Java database migration framework
Flyways Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline
Flyway Club, a shooting club in North Carolina, US
Flyway Film Festival, a festival in Pepin, Wisconsin, US
See also
Airway (disambiguation)
Flight plan (disambiguation)
Flightpath (disambiguation)
Fly Away (disambiguation)
Skyway (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Persian%20Gulf%20II | The Second Persian Gulf Battle II is a 2017 Iranian computer animated epic war film directed by Farhad Azima. The content of the animation is focused on a brainchild prospective war between U.S. Navy and Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Persian Gulf.
The lead of the film, Commander Qasem, is a reference to Qasem Soleimani, according to Farhad Azima. Farhad Azima has declared in an interview that the animation can be a response to the recent elected president of United States, Donald Trump: "I hope that the film shows Trump how American soldiers will face a humiliating defeat if they attack Iran," Azima said. "They all sink and the film ends as the American ships have turned into an aquarium for fishes at the bottom of the sea." This animation is released shortly after Trump put Iran "on notice".
According to the director Azima, it took more than four years to make the animation and the total production cost was 10 billion rials ($308,000).
See also
Revenge (video game)
References
External links
Iranian animated films
2017 computer-animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arburua | Arburua is a Navarre surname of Etxalar, Pamplona, Spain.
According to data from the Spanish National Statistical Institute (INE), as of 2017 Arburua occupies position #18425 in the list of Spanish surnames; a total of 158 people had the name as their initial last name, and 194 their second. In Navarre, 86 residents have Arburua as a first surname, and 111 as a second.
Religious monument
The Basilica of Our Lady of Arburua, located in Izal and known for its long nave, was built at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th.
Famous people named Arburua
Eusebio Arburua Altamira, veterinarian
Teodoro Arburua Irisarri (1876–1942), priest
Pedro Arburua Sola (born 1880), entrepreneur; innkeeper in Morelos, Mexico
Manuel Arburúa de la Miyar (1902–1981), Minister of Commerce (1951–1957)
Juan Larramendi Arburua (1917–2005), painter
Jose Beobide Arburua (born 1937), priest
Jose Manuel Arburua Aspiunza, businessman
Kepa Arburua Olaizola, engineer; author
Juan Llado Arburua (born 1961), businessman
Maria Rosa Arburua Goyeneche, author
Marcelino Oreja Arburúa (born 1969), politician; businessman
Manuel Felipe Oreja Arburua, businessman
References
Surnames of Spanish origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfe%20Class%20447 | The Renfe Class 447 is a class of electric multiple unit trains built by CAF, Alstom, Siemens, ABB, and Adtranz for Renfe Cercanías, Spain's commuter railway networks. The first units entered service in 1993.
Technical details
Class 447 units use 3 kV DC overhead catenary line electric traction. The maximum speed of Class 447 units in service is 120 km/h.
Cities and routes
Class 447 units operate on the following networks:
Rodalies de Catalunya
Cercanías Valencia
Cercanías San Sebastián
Cercanías Santander
Cercanías Madrid
Rodalies Girona
Rodalies Tarragona
Gallery
See also
Cercanías
Renfe
External links
Ferropedia - Renfe Serie 447 (Spanish)
Renfe - Our Trains
CAF multiple units
Cercanías
Renfe multiple units
Siemens multiple units
3000 V DC multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Chan%20%28disambiguation%29 | Patrick Chan may refer to:
Patrick Chan (born 1990), Canadian figure skater
Patrick Chan (judge) (born 1948), Hong Kong judge
Patrick Peter Chan, Canadian computer scientist
See also
Patrick Chung (born 1987), American football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudreach | Cloudreach is a cloud computing consultancy, focused on the implementation and operational support of public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. It is headquartered in London, UK, and has offices in multiple countries around the world including Canada, France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, United States and Switzerland.
Publicly acknowledged customers include BP, Hearst, the Met Office, Skyscanner, Ströer and Time Inc. Cloudreach also owns two software systems developed in-house: Sceptre, an infrastructure automation suite for AWS; and Connect, an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).
On January 4, 2022, the company was acquired by Atos.
History
2009: Cloudreach was founded in London by Pontus Noren and James Monico;
2011: it opened a second office in Edinburgh. In February 2017, Cloudreach was acquired by private equity firm Blackstone for an undisclosed amount.
2017: in July, Cloudreach announced a partnership with T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom;
2017: in August, Cloudreach acquired two US-based businesses: Emerging Technology Advisors, a cloud professional services company; and Cloudamize, a cloud migration specialist. Cloudamize is a cloud computing analytics platform, providing analytics for cloud migration and management;
2018: in July, Aaron Painter was appointed as CEO of Cloudreach. Pontus Noren subsequently became Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors;
2018: in August, Cloudreach acquired Relus Cloud, an Atlanta based data and analytics specialist; this took the Cloudreach headcount beyond 700;
2019: in October, Brooks Borcherding is appointed COO and President and takes the role of interim CEO, later to become full time CEO.
2022: in January, Cloudreach is acquired by Atos.
2023: in April, Atos launches the Eviden brand ahead of a €5 billion carve-out of their cloud, digital and security business lines. Cloudreach becomes an Eviden business and will be integrated within the Eviden OneCloud group. Brooks Borcherding leaves the CEO position as Cloudreach comes under Eviden control, with Tara Tapper promoted to the Cloudreach Chief Operating Officer role.
References
External links
Official website
Cloud computing providers
2022 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill%20Woods%20stop | Mill Woods stop is a tram stop under construction in the Edmonton Light Rail Transit network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will serve as the south terminus of the Valley Line. It is located on the south side of 28 Avenue NW, west of Hewes Way, between Tawa and Mill Woods Town Centre. The stop was scheduled to open in 2020, with the Mill Woods Transit Centre relocated to allow easy connections between bus and train; however, it is now scheduled to open on November 4, 2023.
Around the station
Mill Woods Town Centre
J. Percy Page High School
Holy Trinity Catholic High School
Mill Woods Park
Mill Woods Transit Centre
The Mill Woods Transit Centre is located on Hewes Way and 25 Avenue.
As a part of the Mill Woods Town Centre redevelopment plan, the transit centre was moved from its original location to a new location approximately from the new LRT station site. Instead of a concrete island, typical of transit centres in Edmonton, the transit centre was planned to include a promenade with shops next to the bus stops. Construction of the new transit centre began in fall 2019, and it opened April 15, 2021.
The following bus routes serve the transit centre:
References
External links
TransEd Valley Line LRT
Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations
Railway stations under construction in Canada
Edmonton Transit Service transit centres
Valley Line (Edmonton) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyMC | PyMC (formerly known as PyMC3) is a Python package for Bayesian statistical modeling and probabilistic machine learning which focuses on advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo and variational fitting algorithms.
It is a rewrite from scratch of the previous version of the PyMC software.
Unlike PyMC2, which had used Fortran extensions for performing computations, PyMC relies on PyTensor, a Python library that allows defining, optimizing, and efficiently evaluating mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays.
From version 3.8 PyMC relies on ArviZ to handle plotting, diagnostics, and statistical checks. PyMC and Stan are the two most popular probabilistic programming tools.
PyMC is an open source project, developed by the community and fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS.
PyMC has been used to solve inference problems in several scientific domains, including
astronomy,
epidemiology,
molecular biology,
crystallography,
chemistry,
ecology
and psychology.
Previous versions of PyMC were also used widely, for example in
climate science,
public health, neuroscience,
and parasitology.
After Theano announced plans to discontinue development in 2017, the PyMC team evaluated TensorFlow Probability as a computational backend, but decided in 2020 to fork Theano under the name Aesara.
Large parts of the Theano codebase have been refactored and compilation through JAX and Numba were added.
The PyMC team has released the revised computational backend under the name PyTensor and continues the development of PyMC.
Inference engines
PyMC implements non-gradient-based and gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for Bayesian inference and stochastic, gradient-based variational Bayesian methods for approximate Bayesian inference.
MCMC-based algorithms:
No-U-Turn sampler (NUTS), a variant of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and PyMC's default engine for continuous variables
Metropolis–Hastings, PyMC's default engine for discrete variables
Sequential Monte Carlo for static posteriors
Sequential Monte Carlo for approximate Bayesian computation
Variational inference algorithms:
Black-box Variational Inference
See also
Stan is a probabilistic programming language for statistical inference written in C++
ArviZ a Python library for Exploratory Analysis of Bayesian Models
References
Further reading
Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers
Computational Statistics in Python
External links
PyMC website
PyMC source, a Git repository hosted on GitHub
Symbolic PyMC is an experimental set of tools that facilitate sophisticated symbolic manipulation of PyMC models
Computational statistics
Free Bayesian statistics software
Monte Carlo software
Numerical programming languages
Probabilistic software
Python (programming language) scientific libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridanus%20II | The Eridanus II Dwarf is a low-surface brightness dwarf galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. Eridanus II was independently discovered by two groups in 2015, using data from the Dark Energy Survey (Bechtol et al., 2015; Koposov et al. 2015). This galaxy is probably a distant satellite of the Milky Way. Li et al., 2016. Eridanus II contains a centrally located globular cluster; and is the smallest, least luminous galaxy known to contain a globular cluster. Crnojević et al., 2016. Eridanus II is significant, in a general sense, because the widely accepted Lambda CDM cosmology predicts the existence of many more dwarf galaxies than have yet been observed. The search for just such bodies was one of the motivations for the ongoing Dark Energy Survey observations. Eridanus II has special significance because of its apparently stable globular cluster. The stability of this cluster, near the center of such a small, diffuse, galaxy places constraints on the nature of dark matter. Brandt 2016.
Discovery and history of observations
Since the end of the Twentieth century, the most widely accepted cosmologies have been built on the foundations of the ΛCDM model which, in turn, is founded on the bedrock of the Big Bang cosmologies of the 1960s and 1970s. In the simplest terms, ΛCDM adds dark energy (Λ) and cold dark matter (CDM) to the Big Bang in order to explain the major features of the universe we observe today. ΛCDM describes a universe whose mass is dominated by dark matter. In such a universe, galaxies might be thought of as accretions of normal (baryonic) matter onto the largest concentrations of dark matter. However, ΛCDM does not predict any particular scale of CDM concentrations (Koposov et al. 2015; Besla et al., 2010:5). In fact, it suggests that there ought to be tens or hundreds of smaller dark matter bodies for each observable galaxy the size of our own Milky Way galaxy (Koposov et al. 2015; Bechtol et al., 2015). These should contain much less baryonic matter than a “normal” galaxy. Thus, we should observe many, very faint, satellite galaxies around the Milky Way.
Until about 1990, however, only about 11 Milky Way satellites were known (Pawlowski et al., 2015; Bechtol et al., 2015). The difference between the number of satellites known and the number expected in ΛCDM is referred to as the "missing dwarf" or "substructure" problem. Simon & Geha (2007) also discuss various cosmological and astrophysical "fixes" which might reconcile theory and observation without requiring a great many new dwarf galaxies. Efforts have been underway to determine whether the predicted population of faint satellite galaxies could be observed, and many new dwarf satellites are now being reported. One of the most notable current efforts is the Dark Energy Survey (DES), which makes extensive use of one of the new generation of Chilean telescopes, the 4 m Blanco instrument at the Cerro Telolo Inter-American Observatory (Bechtol et al., 2015: 1). As of early 2016, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LI-RADS | The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (aka LI-RADS) is a quality assurance tool created and trademarked by the American College of Radiology in 2011 to standardize the reporting and data collection of CT and MR imaging patients at risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary cancer of the liver cells. It provides a standardized framework for classification of liver lesions by a radiologist, and only applies in patients with chronic liver disease, the main risk factor for liver cancer. The hierarchical classification, from LR1 to LR5, is based on specific imaging features of the lesion in question, and corresponds to the degree of suspicion for malignancy. For example, a lesion with features corresponding to the highest category, LR5, is "definitely" HCC. Importantly, the increasing acceptance of the LI-RADS system of reporting by referring clinicians (chiefly oncologists, hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgeons) has reduced the need for tissue biopsy confirmation of cancer in patients with chronic liver disease.
The LI-RADS system has undergone two revisions, first in 2014, and again in July 2018.
In 2016, the ACR published a version of LI-RADS which applies to contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging, termed CEUS LI-RADS.
LI-RADS 2018 Version
LI-RADS v2018 makes some slight changes on the classification, improving the sensitivity of detecting small HCC (1~2cm)
Role of LI-RADS in liver transplantation
The only potential curative treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma, assuming that the disease has not spread beyond the liver, is surgically removing the tumor from the body. In some cases, if the tumor is limited and the patient is healthy enough to tolerate surgery, the tumor may be successfully treated by resecting the affected part of the liver (partial hepatectomy). If the person is not a good candidate for surgical resection due advanced liver disease (commonly by Child-Pugh score), liver transplantation may still be a curative treatment option. Provided that the disease has not spread beyond the liver, then liver transplant effectively removes all cancer cells from the body, while also replacing the disease native liver with a better functioning transplant organ.
Liver transplantation has significant risks, including the risk of recurrent cancer. The outcomes and survival benefits of transplantation as treatment of HCC are highest when transplant is reserved for the "best" candidates which meet strict criteria. In addition to undergoing a complete medical and psychological evaluation, imaging assessment for extent of the cancer is an important component of eligibility for transplant. A landmark study in 1996 showed that both overall and recurrence-free survival following liver transplantation for cirrhosis and unresectable HCC was improved by limiting this treatment to disease that met certain strict criteria, now known as the Milan criteria. The criteria include assessment of size and number of active liver tumors, as wel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20M.%20Scott-Carrol | Joy M. Scott-Carrol, is a corporate executive officer, professor and mentor at the International Gifted Education Teacher-Development Network (IGET-Network, LLC, founded in South Africa, 2006) and formerly visiting scholar and professor in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng, South Africa.
Joy Scott-Carrol graduated from Chicago Public Schools; Creighton University-Omaha (B.S., Psychology-1976); University of Wisconsin-Platteville (M.S.Ed.,Counseling Education-1980); Loyola University-Chicago (Ph.D.), Higher Education Administration/Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, with a concentration in Educational Research/Gifted Education (1996).
Joy's book, Running the Long Race in Gifted Education: Narratives and Interviews from Culturally Diverse Gifted Adults (BPN, IGet-Network Press, 2016), was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional.
Career
Teaching
Dr. Scott-Carrol (retired and visiting professor) has taught graduate level courses covering the historical, philosophical and practical aspects of identifying and servicing culturally diverse gifted learners, at Wits School of Education - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. While working under the direction and tutelage of Dr. Paula Olszewski-Kubilius at the Center for Talent Development Northwestern University, Joy successfully implemented and managed the Center's grant funded NU-Horizons Counseling Program for Economically Disadvantaged College-Bound Gifted Students.
Her career also includes:
College and University Professor (16 years, ongoing)
Primary School Music Teacher (6 years)
Contractual Family Therapist (5 years)
College Counselor (7 years)
U.S. Department of Education Grants Program Director (7 years)
Assistant Academic V.P. for Academic Affairs (2.5 years)
Writing
Throughout Dr. Scott-Carrol's career she has been studying the educational research literature on culturally diverse and economically disadvantaged gifted children. Her article, “South African Educators Perspectives on Barriers to Identifying Black and Second Language Learners as Gifted” is published by the International Journal on Learning, 2008. Since 1988 she has presented topical papers in the gifted education field at national and international conferences.
Scott-Carrol's book, Running the Long Race in Gifted Education:Narratives and Interviews from Culturally Diverse Gifted Adults (BPN, IGet-Network Press, 2016), co-authored with former Whitney Young Magnet High School (Chicago) student and mentee, currently successful Hollywood writer, Dr. Anthony Sparks ( Foreword by Diana Slaughter Kotzin), was the culmination of her academic career and lifelong individual creativity. The book contains a set of narratives and interviews about how culturally diverse gifted adults interpret growing up as gifted children, and how they navigated their lives, and it questioned the impact opportunities in gifted and talented |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%20highway%20network | The Philippine highway network is a network of national roads owned and maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and organized into three classifications according to their function or purpose: national primary, secondary, and tertiary roads. The national roads connecting major cities are numbered from N1 to N83. They are mostly single and dual carriageways linking two or more cities.
As of October 15, 2019, it has a total length of of concrete roads, of asphalt roads, of gravel roads, and of earth roads, with a grand total of . According to a 2011 report from the Asian Development Bank, the extent of the road network in the Philippines is comparable with or better than many neighboring developing countries in Southeast Asia. However, in terms of the quality of the road system, i.e., the percentage of paved roads and the percentage of those in good or fair condition, the country lagged behind its neighbors .
Classification
The national roads in the Philippines are classified into three types by the Department of Public Works and Highways under the Philippine Highway Act of 1953 (Republic Act No. 917) and the series of memorandums issued by the department between 2009 and 2014.
National Primary
The national primary roads are roads which form parts of the main trunkline system and directly connect three or more major cities and metropolitan areas with a population of at least 100,000. They are further classified into the north–south backbone, east–west lateral, and other roads of strategic importance. The north–south backbone refers to the main trunkline, the Pan-Philippine Highway (N1, also designated as Asian Highway 26), which runs from Laoag in the northernmost parts of Luzon to Zamboanga City in western Mindanao, interconnecting the country's major islands. The east–west lateral roads are roads that traverse this backbone and runs east–west across the different islands. Other roads of strategic importance provide access to other areas vital for regional development and infrastructure.
National Secondary
The national secondary roads are roads that complement the primary roads and provide access to other major population centers. They directly link smaller cities and provincial capitals, airports, seaports, military bases and tourist centers to the primary roads.
National Tertiary
The third classification was introduced in 2014 known as national tertiary roads. They include other existing roads administered by the DPWH which perform a local function.
Numbering system
The national roads in the Philippines are labelled with pentagonal black-on-white highway shields. Under the route numbering system of the Department of Public Works and Highways, highways numbered from N1 to N11 are the main routes or priority corridors, such as the national primary roads that connect three or more cities. The other primary roads that link two cities and municipalities with 100,000 people or less are numbered N51 to N83.
The nati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fileless%20malware | Fileless malware is a variant of computer related malicious software that exists exclusively as a computer memory-based artifact i.e. in RAM. It does not write any part of its activity to the computer's hard drive, thus increasing its ability to evade antivirus software that incorporate file-based whitelisting, signature detection, hardware verification, pattern-analysis, time-stamping, etc., and leaving very little evidence that could be used by digital forensic investigators to identify illegitimate activity. Malware of this type is designed to work in memory, so its existence on the system lasts only until the system is rebooted.
Definition
Fileless malware is sometimes considered synonymous with in-memory malware as both perform their core functionalities without writing data to disk during the lifetime of their operation. This has led some commentators to claim that this variant strain is nothing new and simply a “redefinition of the well-known term, memory resident virus”, whose pedigree can be traced back to the 1980s with the birth of the Lehigh Virus that was developed by the originator of the term, Fred Cohen, and became influential with his paper on the topic.
This synonymy is however incorrect. Although the aforementioned behavioral execution environment is the same, in both cases i.e. both malware variants are executed in system memory, the crucial differentiation is the method of inception and prolongation. Most malware's infection vector involves some writing to the hard disk, in order for it to be executed, whose origin could take the form of an infected file attachment, external media device e.g. USB, peripheral, mobile phone etc., browser drive-by, side-channel etc.
Each of the aforementioned methods has to have contact with the host system's hard drive, in some form or another, meaning that even when employing the stealthiest anti-forensic methods, some form of the infected residue will be left on the host media.
Fileless malware on the other hand, from the point of inception until process termination (usually by way of a system reboot), aims never to have its contents written to disk. Its purpose is to reside in volatile system areas such as the system registry, in-memory processes and service areas.
Fileless malware commonly employs the Living off the Land (LotL) technique which refers to the use of pre-existing operating system binaries to perform tasks. The goal of this technique is to avoid unnecessarily dropping extra malware on the system to perform tasks that can be done using already existing resources, this aids in stealth, primarily because the pre-existing system binaries are commonly signed and trusted. An example is an attacker using PsExec to connect to a target system.
History
Fileless malware is an evolutionary strain of malicious software that has taken on a steady model of self-improvement/enhancement with a drive towards clearly defined focused attack scenarios, whose roots can be traced back to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204707 | NGC 4707 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered by John Herschel on 5 June 1834, and was described by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue, as a "small, stellar" galaxy.
NGC 4707 has a morphological type of Sm or Im, meaning that it is mostly irregular or has very weak spiral arms. The galaxy was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016. The image showed the galaxy had little to no signs of a central bulge or any prominent structures (typical of Magellanic-type spirals). However, the telescope could resolve many stars, as well as several turquoise-colored star forming regions.
Gallery
References
External links
Irregular galaxies
4707
07971
043255
Canes Venatici |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH41 | Asian Highway 41 (AH41) is a route of the Asian Highway Network, running from Teknaf in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh to Mongla in Khulna Division, Bangladesh.
It passes only through Bangladesh to provide connectivity between Port of Chittagong and Port of Mongla – the two busiest sea ports of Bangladesh. It also shares some portions with the two longest routes of the Asian Highway Network – AH1 and AH2.
Bangladesh
: Teknaf — Cox's Bazar — Chittagong — Feni — Comilla — Dhaka
: Dhaka — Joydebpur
: Joydebpur — Tangail — Elenga
: Elenga — Hatikumrul
: Hatikumrul — Bonpara
: Bonpara — Dasuria
: Dasuria — Kushtia — Jhenaidah
: Jhenaidah — Jessore — Khulna — Mongla
References
Asian Highway Network
Highways in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%20Nuns%20stop | Grey Nuns stop is a tram stop under construction in the Edmonton Light Rail Transit network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will serve the Valley Line, and is located on the east side of 66 Street, north of 31 Avenue NW, between Kameyosek and Tawa. The stop was scheduled to open in 2020; however, it is now scheduled to open on November 4, 2023.
Around the station
Grey Nuns Community Hospital
Kameyosek
Tawa
References
External links
TransEd Valley Line LRT
Future Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations
Valley Line (Edmonton) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbourne/Woodvale%20stop | Millbourne/Woodvale stop is a tram stop under construction in the Edmonton Light Rail Transit network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will serve the Valley Line, and is located on the east side of 66 Street, north of 38 Avenue NW, at the corners of Michaels Park, Greenview, Hillview, and Lee Ridge. The stop was scheduled to open in 2020; however, it is now scheduled to open on November 4, 2023.
Around the station
Millbourne
Lee Ridge
Michaels Park
Millbourne Market Mall
Woodvale
Greenview
Hillview
References
External links
TransEd Valley Line LRT
Future Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations
Valley Line (Edmonton) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20ballooning | In computing, memory ballooning is a technique used to eliminate the need to overprovision host memory used by a virtual machine (VM). To implement it, the virtual machine's kernel implements a "balloon driver" which allocates unused memory within the VM's address space into a reserved memory pool (the "balloon") so that it is unavailable to other processes on the VM. However, rather than being reserved for other uses within the VM, the physical memory mapped to those pages within the VM is actually unmapped from the VM by the host operating system's hypervisor, making it available for other uses by the host machine. Depending on the amount of memory required by the VM, the size of the "balloon" may be increased or decreased dynamically, mapping and unmapping physical memory as required by the VM.
References
See also
Memory overcommitment
Thin provisioning
Virtual machines
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG%20International | This is the Data General international character set:
The Dasher D210/211 display terminals used the following character sets:
References
Character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC%20OS%20character%20set | The Acorn RISC OS character set was used in the Acorn Archimedes series and subsequent computers from 1987 onwards. It is an extension of ISO/IEC 8859-1, similar to the Windows CP1252 in that many of the added characters are typographical punctuation marks.
Code page layout (standard)
At 0x83 is a box with another box inside it on the top left-hand corner, meaning "resize window". At 0x84 is a 'bubble-writing' X, meaning "close window". At 0x87 is an unusual character that is a subscript 8 followed by a superscript 7. It is not proposed for Unicode. At 0x88, 0x89, 0x8A, and 0x8B are left, right, up, and down bubble arrows for window scrollbars.
The following table shows the RISC OS character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent in the tooltip.
Code page layout (Electronic Font Foundry 1.1)
The Homerton font, a clone of Helvetica, does not have these characters. EFF, a third-party supplier of RISC OS outline fonts, has a different, but similar character set.This RISC OS Latin-1 character set was used by Electronic Font Foundry.
Code page layout (TRC)
References
Further reading
Character sets
Acorn Computers
RISC OS
Computer-related introductions in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Extended%20ASCII | Stanford Extended ASCII (SEASCII) is a derivation of the 7-bit ASCII character set developed at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL/SU-AI) in the early 1970s. Not all symbols match ASCII.
Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern California also had their own modified versions of ASCII.
Character set
Each character is given with a potential Unicode equivalent.
See also
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL/SU-AI)
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language (SAIL)
Stanford/ITS character set
References
Further reading
(NB. Shows a table of SEASCII differing in a few code points from that described in RFC 698.)
External links
SEASCII
Computer-related introductions in the 1970s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/102%20Street%20stop | 102 Street stop is a tram stop under construction in the Edmonton Light Rail Transit network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It will serve the Valley Line and will be the terminus station until the line is extended west. It is located on the north side of 102 Avenue between 101 and 102 Streets, in Downtown Edmonton. The stop is scheduled to open on November 4, 2023.
Around the station
Centre High
City Centre Mall
Don Wheaton Family YMCA
Manulife Place
References
External links
TransEd Valley Line LRT
Future Edmonton Light Rail Transit stations
Valley Line (Edmonton) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan%20Chernyak | Yan Chernyak (6 April 1909 – 19 February 1995) was a World War II era spy who led a network of several dozen people in Germany working for the Soviet Union's military intelligence, the GRU. He was nicknamed "man without a shadow" for his ability to move around undetected.
Chernyak (alternative Latin-character spelling Czerniak), was born in 1909, in North Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire. The region was occupied by the Red Army of the Soviet Union in 1940 and henceforth was part of Ukraine.
Chernyak is said to have been half-Jewish (father), half-Hungarian (mother), both parents dying during the First World War. He grew up in an orphanage and apparently spoke six languages (German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech and Slovak) by the time he was sixteen; by the time that he graduated from the Prague Higher Technical School, he also spoke English and French. However, some accounts have him studying at the polytechnic in Berlin.
Among the many agents run by Chernyak are said to have been the famous actresses of the Third Reich, Marika Rokk and Olga Chekhova.
Chernyak is credited with "obtaining information used to devise the first Soviet radar, which formed part of Moscow's air defenses during Nazi raids in 1941, according to a statement from the Russian army's general staff. Chernyak also was "instrumental in developing the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program, the statement said. Details of his spy activities remain secret. After World War II, and until retiring in 1969, Chernyak was a translator for the official Soviet news agency, Tass. In February 1995, he received the Hero of Russia award, the nation's highest honor."''
Chernyak became a Soviet citizen in 1946.
He was made a Hero of the Russian Federation in December 1994, two months before he died on 19 February 1995.
References
1909 births
1995 deaths
GRU officers
Heroes of the Russian Federation
World War II spies for the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2024%29 | Season twenty-four of Dancing with the Stars premiered on March 20, 2017, on the ABC network.
On May 23, 2017, former NFL runningback Rashad Jennings and Emma Slater were crowned the champions, while former MLB catcher David Ross and Lindsay Arnold finished in second place, and Fifth Harmony singer Normani and Val Chmerkovskiy finished in third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. On February 21, 2017, Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd were announced as the first two professionals returning this season. In the following days, Lindsay Arnold, Sharna Burgess, Witney Carson, Artem Chigvintsev, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Sasha Farber, Gleb Savchenko, and Emma Slater were all confirmed as professional dancers. In addition, Kym Herjavec (who last competed in season 20) and Keo Motsepe (who last competed in season 22) were also confirmed as returning as professional dancers.
The full cast was announced on Good Morning America on March 1, 2017.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Julianne Hough, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. On April 24, former contestant Nick Carter joined the panel as a guest judge, filling in for Hough. On May 1, choreographer Mandy Moore also filled in for Hough as a guest judge.
Dance troupe
The troupe consisted of returning pros Alan Bersten, Brittany Cherry, Hayley Erbert, Britt Stewart, and new pros Artur Adamski and Brandon Armstrong.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances/400th Episode Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: First Elimination
The couples performed one unlearned dance, and are listed in the order they performed.
Due to an injury, Maksim Chmerkovskiy was unable to perform, so Heather Morris performed with Alan Bersten instead.
Week 3: Vegas Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance that paid tribute to the sights and sounds of Las Vegas. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
For the second consecutive week, Heather Morris performed with Alan Bersten.
Week 4: Most Memorable Year Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to celebrate the most memorable year of their lives. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
For the third consecutive week, Heather Morris again danced with Alan Bersten.
Week 5: Disney Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to a song from a Disney film, and are listed in the order they performed.
This was the fourth and final week that Heather Morris danced with Alan Bersten.
Week 6: Boy Bands vs. Girl Groups Night
Individual judges' scores in the chart below (given in parenthes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20management | The discipline of probability management communicates and calculates uncertainties as data structures that obey both the laws of arithmetic and probability, while preserving statistical coherence. The simplest approach is to use vector arrays of simulated or historical realizations and metadata called Stochastic Information Packets (SIPs). A set of SIPs, which preserve statistical relationships between variables, is said to be coherent and is referred to as a Stochastic Library Unit with Relationships Preserved (SLURP). SIPs and SLURPs allow stochastic simulations to communicate with one another. For example, see Analytica (Wikipedia), Analytica (SIP page), Oracle Crystal Ball, Frontline Solvers, and Autobox.
The first large documented application of SIPs involved the exploration portfolio of Royal Dutch Shell in 2005 as reported by Savage, Scholtes, and Zweidler, who formalized the discipline of probability management in 2006. The topic is also explored at length in.
Vectors of simulated realizations of probability distributions have been used to drive stochastic optimization since at least 1991. Andrew Gelman described such arrays of realizations as Random Variable Objects in 2007.
A recent approach does not store the actual realizations, but delivers formulas known as Virtual SIPs that generate identical simulation trials in the host environment regardless of platform. This is accomplished through inverse transform sampling, also known as the F-Inverse method, coupled to a portable pseudo random number generator, which produces the same stream of uniform random numbers across platforms.
Quantile parameterized distributions (QPDs) are convenient for inverse transform sampling in this context. In particular, the Metalog distribution is a flexible continuous probability distribution that has simple closed form equations, can be directly parameterized by data, using only a handful of parameters.
An ideal pseudo random number generator for driving inverse transforms is the HDR generator developed by Douglas W. Hubbard. It is a counter-based generator with a four-dimensional seed plus an iteration index that runs in virtually all platforms including Microsoft Excel. This allows simulation results derived in R, Python, or other readily available platforms to be delivered identically, trial by trial to a wide audience in terms of a combination of a few parameters for a Metalog distribution accompanied by the five inputs to the HDR generator.
In 2013, ProbabilityManagement.org was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports this approach through education, tools, and open standards. Executive Director Sam Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages: Why we Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty and is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. Harry Markowitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, was a co-founding board member. The nonprofit has received financial support from Chevron Corporation, General Electric, Highmark Health, Kai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Data%2C%20Inc. | Nuclear Data Incorporated was a manufacturer of scientific measuring devices for high energy physics laboratories. Application areas included X-ray analysis and radiation monitoring. In the 1960s, they built minicomputers to automate their laboratory devices, such as the ND 812. Over time they replaced these custom designed computers with DEC LSI-11 minicomputers with custom peripherals. Their headquarters were located in Schaumburg, Illinois.
In May, 1973, Bunker Ramo acquired the Electronic Store Information Systems Division of Nuclear Data for $3.2 million in cash. The sale included a point of sale terminal business.
On July 5, 1989, the company formally changed its name to Metropolitan Circuits, Inc., after having divested most of their business to other companies.
References
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct companies based in Illinois
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP1%20%28TV%20channel%29 | GP1 (previously branded as Kreator TV) is a European sports media platform specialized in motorsports. GP1 includes a TV network in local languages in Croatia, Slovenia, and several other countries, motorsport news portals, and a TV production specializing in a live TV production of the motorsports races from major European racetracks (Red Bull Ring, Hungaroring, Valencia, Brands Hatch...). It broadcasts its program to all major IPTV & cable operators in Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina. GP1's studios and broadcast facilities are located in Jastrebarsko, Croatia and Ljubljana, Slovenia.
History
GP1 first started in 2011. under the name Kreator F1 and Kreator F1 HD for broadcasting only Formula 1 in biggest Croatian provider Max TV - part of Croatian Telecom as Kreator's owner acquired exclusive Formula 1 media rights for Croatia. The name Kreator TV was used from the second half of 2013 after Formula 1 co-operation until 2022 when media group changes its name to GP1.
GP1 has a history with premium sports rights and they owned and broadcast such rights as Formula 1, MotoGP, MX GP, FIA WTCC, FIA ERC and others. Among the others GP1 produced the season 2015 of the Second Croatian Football league. Journalists from the GP1 made some exclusive interviews with the top sportsman like Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg (one of the last interviews before retirement), Valentino Rossi, Ken Block and others.
GP1 made significant steps in 2020. with own, multi-camera live broadcasts of the ESET Cup Series races from Hungaroring, Slovakia Ring, Automotodrom Brno and Automotodrom Grobnik and at the end of the year NASCAR Whelen Euro Series from Grobnik (Croatia) and finals on the Circuit Ricardo Tormo Valencia (Spain).
In the 2021. they broadcast full NASCAR Euro season and ESET Cup doing TV production from Brands Hatch, Vallelunga, Valencia, Hungaroring, Slovakia Ring, Brno, Most, Grobnik, Poznan and other race tracks. New 15 camera Mercedes-Benz OB van was acquired at the end of the year.
On 1 April 2022, GP1 name was selected, and new visual identity was used. First major broadcast was from Hungaroring beginning April 1, and this season is fully booked with live broadcasts from more than 13 European tracks.
References
External links
Sports television networks
Television channels in Croatia
Television channels and stations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Senate%20Armed%20Services%20Subcommittee%20on%20Cybersecurity | The United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity is one of seven subcommittees within the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Jurisdiction
The Cybersecurity Subcommittee has primary jurisdiction over all policies and programs related to cyber forces and capabilities. The subcommittee also oversees the United States Cyber Command and the cyber components of other United States Department of Defense commands and agencies.
Members, 118th Congress
Historical subcommittee rosters
117th Congress
116th Congress
115th Congress
References
External links
Senate Armed Services Committee home page
Senate Armed Services Committee subcommittee list and membership page
Armed Services Cybersecurity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Fischer%20%28disambiguation%29 | Patrick Fischer (born 1975) is a Swiss ice hockey player.
Patrick Fischer may also refer to:
Patrick C. Fischer (1935–2011), computer scientist and Unabomber target
Patrick F. Fischer (born 1957), justice on the Ohio Supreme Court
Pat Fischer (born 1940), American football player
See also
Patrick Fischler (born 1969), American actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat%20Road%20Network%20Limited | Bharat Road Network Limited (BRNL) is a road build operate transfer company based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was founded in 2006 to focus on development, implementation of roads and highways projects.
Projects
The project portfolio of BRNL consists of six road BOT projects, which are being developed on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Odisha. Out of these, two projects are operational under final commercial operation date, three projects are operational under provisional COD and one project is under construction. The projects operational under final COD and provisional COD together cover approximately 1,622.44 lane km, including major and minor bridges. While the project under construction involves development of 400.24 lane km, including major and minor bridges.
References
External links
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 2006
2006 establishments in West Bengal
Indian companies established in 2006
Public–private partnership
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariacothrix | Cariacothrix is a genus of ciliates in the subphylum Intramacronucleata. It contains only one species, Cariacothrix caudata, and is the only genus in the monotypic family Cariacotrichidae, order Cariacotrichida, and class Cariacotrichea.
References
Intramacronucleata
Monotypic SAR supergroup taxa
Ciliate classes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatian%20Solidarity%20Network | Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) organizes Jesuit schools and universities in the United States, together with their alumni and all interested parties, in training and advocacy for social justice leadership. This is in pursuit of "the service of faith and promotion of justice" that was emphasized by Jesuit Father General Pedro Arrupe and by the Catholic bishops after Vatican II. The founding of ISN was in response to the US connection in the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador.
References
Jesuit development centres
Organizations established in 1994
Social justice organizations
Human rights organizations based in the United States
Poverty-related organizations
Peace organizations
Society of Jesus in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Agricultura | Radio Agricultura (originally Radio Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura) is a Chilean radio broadcasting network belonging to the association of landowners, Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura (SNA). It is run by Publicaciones y Difusión SA (which is owned by the SNA), the studios are at Edificio Pamplona.
It was founded in 1935 in Valparaíso and inaugurated on October 30, 1936 in Santiago de Chile. Its concession goes back to Decree No. 3633 of August 30, 1935, subsequently published in the Diario Oficial on September 11, 1935. It takes a conservative editorial line.
History
The SNA decided to create a means of making its activities known to the public. Beginning the project in Valparaiso in 1935, on October 15, 1936, in Santiago, radio transmissions began at a frequency of 570 kHz on the Medium wave band.
Radio Agricultura was influential in making Mexican music popular in rural areas of Chile. Radio Agricultura won notoriety and influence because, along with the Chilena, Cooperativa and Minería radio networks, it opposed the government of Salvador Allende and supported the military coup and later military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Its transmissions were famous for their coverage of the coup of September 11, 1973 and its military bands that were heard on national radio and television throughout Chile. Also in the 1970s the dictatorship shut down smaller radio stations thought to be sympathetic with the former Allende administration.
At the end of the 1990s, Radio Agricultura began broadcasting at 92.1 MHz in the FM band, the frequency of its sister radio station Radio San Cristóbal FM.
As the only station with which provincial radio stations can affiliate, Radio Agricultura uses agreements with other radio stations, in addition to a network of transmitters throughout Chile, to broadcast across the country. Other, larger radio stations (such as Radio Bío-Bío, Radio Cooperativa, ADN Radio Chile and Tele13 Radio) have national channels with their own stations.
Radio Agricultura has among its ranks several public figures, including Alejandro de la Carrera (press director until March 2014), Joaquín Lavín, Fernando Villegas, Cecilia Pérez, Sergio "Checho" Hirane, and Eli de Caso among others.
References
Radio stations in Chile
Radio stations established in 1936
Radio Agricultura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%20%28bot%29 | Zo was an artificial intelligence English-language chatbot developed by Microsoft. It was the successor to the chatbot Tay. Zo was an English version of Microsoft's other successful chatbots Xiaoice (China) and (Japan).
History
Zo was first launched in December 2016 on the Kik Messenger app. It was also available to users of Facebook (via Messenger), the group chat platform GroupMe, or to followers of Twitter to chat with it through private messages.
In a BuzzFeed News report, Zo told their reporter that "[the] Quran was violent" when talking about healthcare. The report also highlighted how Zo made a comment about the Osama bin Laden capture as a result of 'intelligence' gathering.
In July 2017, Business Insider asked "is windows 10 good," and Zo replied with a joke about Microsoft's operating system: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!' - Windows 8." They then asked "why," to which Zo replied: "Because it's Windows latest attempt at spyware." Later on, Zo would tell that it prefers Windows 7 on which it runs over Windows 10.
In April 2019, Zo was shut down on multiple platforms.
Reception
Zo came under criticism for the biases introduced in an effort to avoid potentially offensive subjects. The chatbot refuses for example to engage with any mention—be it positive, negative or neutral—of the Middle East, the Qur'an or the Torah, while allowing discussion of Christianity. In an article in Quartz where she exposed those biases, Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin wrote, "Zo is politically correct to the worst possible extreme; mention any of her triggers, and she transforms into a judgmental little brat."
Legacy
According to an article written in December 2016, at that time Zo held the record for Microsoft's longest continual chatbot conversation: 1,229 turns, lasting 9 hours and 53 minutes.
Discontinuation
Zo discontinued posting to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook March 1, 2019, and discontinued chatting on Twitter DM, Skype and Kik as of March 7, 2019. On July 19, 2019, Zo was discontinued on Facebook, and Samsung on AT&T phones. As of September 7, 2019, it was discontinued with GroupMe.
Academic coverage
Schlesinger, A., O'Hara, K.P. and Taylor, A.S., 2018, April. Let's talk about race: Identity, chatbots, and AI. In Proceedings of the 2018 chi conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-14).
Medhi Thies, I., Menon, N., Magapu, S., Subramony, M. and O’neill, J., 2017. How do you want your chatbot? An exploratory Wizard-of-Oz study with young, urban Indians. In Human-Computer Interaction-INTERACT 2017: 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017, Proceedings, Part I 16 (pp. 441-459).
References
Chatbots
Computer-related introductions in 2016
Internet properties established in 2016
Internet properties disestablished in 2019
Discontinued Microsoft software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%201986%20%28Mexico%29 | This is a list of the songs that reached number one in Mexico in 1986, 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
1986 in music
References
Sources
Print editions of the Notitas Musicales magazine.
1986 in Mexico
Mexico
Lists of number-one songs in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Cloud | Visual Cloud is the implementation of visual computing applications that rely on cloud computing architectures, cloud scale processing and storage, and ubiquitous broadband connectivity between connected devices, network edge devices and cloud data centers. It is a model for providing visual computing services to consumers and business users, while allowing service providers to realize the general benefits of cloud computing, such as low cost, elastic scalability, and high availability while providing optimized infrastructure for visual computing application requirements.
History and overview
The rise of cloud computing was enabled by a convergence of powerful, low-cost computer hardware, high-capacity networks, and advances in hardware virtualization. To satisfy high consumer demand for visually-based entertainment such as video and gaming, as well as online social interaction, service providers began to deploy visually oriented applications in centralized data centers and use distributed content delivery networks to make that content accessible to their users.
Mobile consumption of video content in particular makes cloud delivery of video attractive, because remote processing and storage can compensate for the limitations of mobile devices. As much as 75% of the world's mobile data traffic is expected to be video by 2020.
The first generation of visual cloud technologies were mostly oriented around streaming media applications. The mid-2000s saw the introduction of professional and user generated video-on-demand services like Netflix and YouTube, multiplayer online games (MOGs) like Call of Duty and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft. Another common usage of visual cloud that emerged during this timeframe is desktop virtualization based on remote desktop instances that are hosted using cloud infrastructure.
As visual cloud technology has become more capable, more demanding usages have begun to emerge, such as the use of visual cloud for virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D scene understanding and interactivity, and immersive live experiences. Visual cloud applications can be roughly divided into four primary domains:
Media content creation and delivery
Cloud graphics
Media analytics
Immersive media
Media content creation and delivery
The overall amount of video being delivered throughout the world is increasing significantly, as new sources develop. Processing and distribution of that content may increasingly be addressed by means of the visual cloud. Sources of that content include applications in cloud, communications, media/entertainment, and enterprise environments. Global mobile data traffic is forecast to increase nearly 7x between 2016 and 2021. There are three primary models of content distribution.
Broadcasting of linear, live, and on-demand content by traditional communications service providers such as Comcast and DirecTV. This content has typically been consumed on televisions. The visua |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Meant%20to%20Be%20episodes | Meant to Be is a 2017 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It aired from January 9, 2017 to June 23, 2017 on the network's Telebabad line-up replacing Someone to Watch Over Me.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
January 2017
February 2017
March 2017
April 2017
May 2017
June 2017
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instance%20selection | Instance selection (or dataset reduction, or dataset condensation) is an important data pre-processing step that can be applied in many machine learning (or data mining) tasks. Approaches for instance selection can be applied for reducing the original dataset to a manageable volume, leading to a reduction of the computational resources that are necessary for performing the learning process. Algorithms of instance selection can also be applied for removing noisy instances, before applying learning algorithms. This step can improve the accuracy in classification problems.
Algorithm for instance selection should identify a subset of the total available data to achieve the original purpose of the data mining (or machine learning) application as if the whole data had been used. Considering this, the optimal outcome of IS would be the minimum data subset that can accomplish the same task with no performance loss, in comparison with the performance achieved when the task is performed using the whole available data. Therefore, every instance selection strategy should deal with a trade-off between the reduction rate of the dataset and the classification quality.
Instance selection algorithms
The literature provides several different algorithms for instance selection. They can be distinguished from each other according to several different criteria. Considering this, instance selection algorithms can be grouped in two main classes, according to what instances they select: algorithms that preserve the instances at the boundaries of classes and algorithms that preserve the internal instances of the classes. Within the category of algorithms that select instances at the boundaries it is possible to cite DROP3, ICF and LSBo. On the other hand, within the category of algorithms that select internal instances, it is possible to mention ENN and LSSm. In general, algorithm such as ENN and LSSm are used for removing harmful (noisy) instances from the dataset. They do not reduce the data as the algorithms that select border instances, but they remove instances at the boundaries that have a negative impact on the data mining task. They can be used by other instance selection algorithms, as a filtering step. For example, the ENN algorithm is used by DROP3 as the first step, and the LSSm algorithm is used by LSBo.
There is also another group of algorithms that adopt different selection criteria. For example, the algorithms LDIS, CDIS and XLDIS select the densest instances in a given arbitrary neighborhood. The selected instances can include both, border and internal instances. The LDIS and CDIS algorithms are very simple and select subsets that are very representative of the original dataset. Besides that, since they search by the representative instances in each class separately, they are faster (in terms of time complexity and effective running time) than other algorithms, such as DROP3 and ICF.
Besides that, there is a third category of algorithms that, instea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HydroCAD | HydroCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) program used by civil engineers for modeling the hydrology and hydraulics (H&H) of stormwater runoff. Its use as a tool has grown in the U.S. as rules for managing stormwater have become more stringent. Specifically, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), last updated in December 2016, regulates point source pollution by municipal governments, industrial facilities and agricultural facilities. The NPDES was introduced in 1972 as part of the Clean Water Act, and is administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in partnership with state environmental agencies.
H&H software such as HydroCAD is important in the implementation of the Low-Impact Development approach to stormwater management that is gaining popularity throughout the U.S. and Canada.
History
The company was founded in 1977 as Applied Microcomputer Systems (AMS), initially developing custom software for technical and scientific applications. In the early years of personal computers, AMS produced various other programming tools for technical professionals.
In 1985, AMS began development of the HydroCAD Stormwater Modeling System as a response to growing hydrology requirements facing civil engineers. The program, ultimately introduced in 1986 for HP workstations, made it possible to conduct complex calculations on desktop computers rather than only on mainframes. It also added new graphical interfaces to improve ease of use.
In 2001 the HydroCAD software was re-written as a native Windows application, using Borland's Delphi programming environment, and released as HydroCAD 6.0.
In 2004, the company officially changed its name to “HydroCAD Software Solutions LLC”. Its headquarters office is on Chocorua Mountain Highway (also known as Route 16) in the town of Tamworth, New Hampshire.
The latest HydroCAD version 10.2 was released in May 2022. Future updates are expected approximately twice a year, allowing HydroCAD to stay current with the ever-expanding market of stormwater storage products (chambers) and flow control devices.
References
External links
Eng-Tips Forum
Training Videos
Hydrology models
Hydraulics
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Profiling | Alpha profiling is an application of machine learning to optimize the execution of large orders in financial markets by means of algorithmic trading. The purpose is to select an execution schedule that minimizes the expected implementation shortfall, or more generally, ensures compliance with a best execution mandate.
Alpha profiling models learn statistically-significant patterns in the execution of orders from a particular trading strategy or portfolio manager and leverages these patterns to associate an optimal execution schedule to new orders. In this sense, it is an application of statistical arbitrage to best execution. For example, a portfolio manager specialized in value investing may have a behavioral bias to place orders to buy while an asset is still declining in value. In this case, a slow or back-loaded execution schedule would provide better execution results than an urgent one. But this same portfolio manager will occasionally place an order after the asset price has already begun to rise in which case it should best be handled with urgency; this example illustrates the fact that Alpha Profiling must combine public information such as market data with private information including as the identity of the portfolio manager and the size and origin of the order, to identify the optimal execution schedule.
Market Impact
Large block orders can generally not be executed immediately because there is no available counterparty with the same size. Instead, they must be sliced into smaller pieces which are sent to the market over time. Each slice has some impact on the price, so on average the realized price for a buy order will be higher than at the time of the decision, or less for a sell order. The implementation shortfall is the difference between the price at the time of the decision and the average expected price to be paid for executing the block, and is usually expressed in basis points as follows.
Alpha Profile
The alpha profile of an order is the expected impact-free price conditioned on the order and the state of the market, form the decision time to the required completion time. In other words, it is the price that one expects for the security would have over the execution horizon if the order were not executed. To estimate the cost of an execution strategy, market impact must be added to the impact-free price. It is well worth stressing that attempts to estimate the cost of alternative schedules without impact adjustments are counter-productive: high urgency strategies would capture more liquidity near the decision time and therefore would always be preferred if one did not account for their impact. In fact, front-loaded execution schedules have a higher average impact cost.
Estimating an alpha profile
One way to compute an alpha profile is to use a classification technique such as Naive Bayes: find in the historical record a collection of orders with similar features, compute the impact-free price for each case, and take th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20City | Dragon City is a free-to-play social network game developed and published by Socialpoint.
Gameplay
Dragon City tasks players to raise their dragons and design a city full of dragons on floating islands. Gold produced by dragons can be used to buy and upgrade buildings and habitats. Farms can be used to grow food, which can be used to level up dragons, improving their strength depending on the dragon's rarity, and increase gold production. You can also breed two dragons that are at least Level 4 to produce a new and hybrid dragon. In addition to raising the dragons, players can use them to battle other players' dragons through League Battles. These battles can award you multiple important resources like Gems and Food which can make your progression in the game faster.
Aside from raising dragons and taking them to battle, players can participate in limited-time events that allow them to obtain new and exclusive dragons. There is a multitude of events that have different requirements to get them.
Once a player has reached Level 27, the Ancient World can be accessed, which is an area of the game where Gold can be exchanged for Crystals (ruby, sapphire, topaz, emerald, onyx, and diamond) which can be collected from mines that can be used to summon and evolve Ancient Dragons. The crafting station is used to craft better tiers of crystals using lower-tier crystals and platinum. Platinum is generated by the ancient dragons similar to how the regular dragons generate gold.
In the game, there are up to 14 element types, and dragons come with up to 4 elements that they can learn moves from. The elements are Terra, Flame, Sea, Nature, Electric, Ice, Metal, Dark, Light, War, Pure, Legend, Primal, and Wind. As of the Ancient World Update, 6 additional elements have been added, which are: Beauty, Magic, Chaos, Happy, Dream, and Soul. As of the 10th Birthday Update, a new dragon element was added, which is Time.
Previously, there were 5 rarities of dragons, which are Common, Rare, Very Rare, Epic, and Legendary. On 15 April 2016, a new rarity of dragons was released. The new rarity was Heroic and was introduced alongside the first Heroic dragon, the High Fenrir Dragon.
Release
Dragon City was first released in Facebook in May 2012, with iOS and Android in 2013. On February 26, 2019, the Microsoft Windows version of the game was released. On February 2, 2020, the Facebook version of the game was closed.
References
Soup
External links
2012 video games
Android (operating system) games
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Facebook games
Free-to-play video games
IOS games
Social casual games
Take-Two Interactive franchises
Video games about dragons
Video games developed in Spain
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raye%20Montague | Raye Jean Montague (née Jordan; January 21, 1935 – October 10, 2018) was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship. She was the first female program manager of ships in the United States Navy.
Early life and education
Raye Jordan was born on January 21, 1935, to Rayford Jordan and Flossie Graves Jordan in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was inspired to pursue engineering after seeing a "midget" submarine, possibly the HA. 19, as a traveling exhibit that came to Little Rock.
She recalled, “My grandfather took me downtown to see that submarine and I was able to go down a little ladder into that sub. It was like a tin can. That was my first introduction to ships. You just never know what inspires a person.”
She graduated from Merrill High School in 1952. For college, she attended Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (now University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) and graduated in 1956 with a bachelor of science degree in business. At the time, the engineering program at the University of Arkansas did not admit African-American students.
Career
Montague joined the United States Navy in 1956 in Washington, D.C., as a clerk typist. At work, she sat next to a 1950s UNIVAC I computer, watching the engineers operate it until one day, when all the engineers were sick, she jumped in to run the machine. She took computer programming at night school while continuing to work and learn the job. She was appointed as a computer systems analyst at the Naval Ship Engineering Center, and later served as the program director for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Integrated Design, Manufacturing, and Maintenance Program, the division head for the Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Program, and deputy program manager of the Navy's Information Systems Improvement Program.
In 1971, her department was allotted one month to create a computer-generated ship design. By modifying existing automated systems, Montague produced the initial draft for the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate in about 19 hours. With this accomplishment, she became the first person to design a ship using a computer system. She later worked on ships such as the Seawolf-class submarine and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier . Montague retired in 1990.
Montague died of congestive heart failure on October 10, 2018, at Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock.
Awards
Meritorious Civilian Service Award (US Navy, 1972)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers Achievement Award (1978)
National Computer Graphics Association Award for the Advancement of Computer Graphics (1988)
Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame (2018)
References
1935 births
2018 deaths
Military personnel from Little Rock, Arkansas
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff alumni
African-American engineers
Engineers from Arkansas
American women engineers
Boat and ship designers
Female United States Navy civilians
Merrill High Sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawl%20frontier | A crawl frontier is a data structure used for storage of URLs eligible for crawling and supporting such operations as adding URLs and selecting for crawl. Sometimes it can be seen as a priority queue.
Overview
A crawl frontier is one of the components that make up the architecture of a web crawler. The crawl frontier contains the logic and policies that a crawler follows when visiting websites. This activity is known as crawling.
The policies can include such things as what pages should be visited next, the priorities for each page to be searched, and how often the page is to be visited. The efficiency of the crawl frontier is especially important since one of the characteristics of the Web that make web crawling a challenge; is that it contains such a large volume of data and it is constantly changing.
Architecture
The initial list of URLs contained in the crawler frontier are known as seeds. The web crawler will constantly ask the frontier what pages to visit. As the crawler visits each of those pages, it will inform the frontier with the response of each page. The crawler will also update the crawler frontier with any new hyperlinks contained in those pages it has visited. These hyperlinks are added to the frontier and the crawler will visit new web pages based on the policies of the frontier. This process continues recursively until all URLs in the crawl frontier are visited.
The policies used to determine what pages to visit are commonly based on a score. This score is typically computed from a number of different attributes. Such as the freshness of a page, the time the page was updated and the relevance of the content with respect to certain terms.
Components
Frontier API/Manager
The Frontier Manager is the component that the web crawler will use to communicate with the crawl frontier. The frontier API can also be used to communicate with the crawl frontier.
Middlewares
The frontier middlewares sit between the manager and the backend. The purpose of middlewares is to manage the communication between frontier and the backend. Middlewares are an ideal way to add or extend additional functionality simply by plugging additional code.
Backend
The backend component contains all the logic and policies that are used in a search. The function of the backend is to identify the pages to be crawled.
References
Search engine software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20R.%20Rosenbaum | Paul R. Rosenbaum is the Robert G. Putzel Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked from 1986 through 2021. He has written extensively about causal inference in observational studies, including sensitivity analysis, optimal matching, design sensitivity, evidence factors, quasi-experimental devices, and (with Donald B. Rubin) the propensity score. With various coauthors, he has also written about health outcomes, racial disparities in health outcomes, instrumental variables, psychometrics and experimental design.
Rosenbaum is the author of several books: (i) Observational Studies, first edition 1995, second edition 2002, in the Springer Series in Statistics, New York: Springer, (ii) Design of Observational Studies, first edition 2010, second edition 2020, in the Springer Series in Statistics, New York: Springer, (iii) Observation and Experiment: An Introduction to Causal Inference, 2017, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (iv) Replication and Evidence Factors in Observational Studies, 2021, in the Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability, 167, New York: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
For work in causal inference, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies gave Rosenbaum the R. A. Fisher Award and Lectureship in 2019 and the George W. Snedecor Award in 2003. His R. A. Fisher Lecture is available on YouTube beginning at minute 32. He received Nathan Mantel Award from the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association in 2017, and the Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2018. He delivered an Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecture about evidence factors in 2020, and a complete and a short version of the lecture are available on YouTube. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Pennsylvania faculty
American statisticians
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Harvard University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Medosch | Armin Medosch (1962 – 2017) was an Austrian artist, curator, theorist and critic working in the fields of net.art, new media art and DiY networking.
Biography
Medosch was born in Graz. He received his PhD from the Goldsmiths with research on the New Tendencies movement. As a journalist he wrote extensively on art and technology for publications in German and English, and on lists such as Nettime. From 1996 to 2002 he was co-editor of Telepolis: The Magazine of Netculture. For many years he collaborated with media art organisation RIXC co-editing issues of their Acoustic Space Journal and co-curating exhibitions, and collaborated with artist Shu Lea Cheang on the Kingdom of Piracy project. Medosch previously taught on the MA course on Interactive Digital Media at Ravensbourne (college), London (2002–07).
Medosch died of cancer in 2017, in Vienna.
Publications
"Shockwaves in the New World Order of Information and Communication", in A Companion to Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp 355–383.
New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of The Information Revolution 1961-1978, MIT Press, 2016
References
External links
New Tendencies Research site
Armin Medosch Bibliography on Monoskop
1962 births
2017 deaths
Academics of Ravensbourne University London
20th-century Austrian male writers
20th-century Austrian writers
21st-century Austrian male writers
21st-century Austrian writers
Male journalists
20th-century Austrian journalists
21st-century Austrian journalists
Writers from Graz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creos%20Luxembourg | Creos Luxembourg S.A. owns and manages electricity networks and natural gas pipelines in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In this capacity, the company plans, constructs and maintains high, medium and low-voltage electricity networks and high, medium and low-pressure natural gas pipelines, which it owns or which it is responsible for managing.
History
Creos was formed as a result of a merger between Cegedel S.A. – the Grand-Ducal electricity company of Luxembourg, which was founded in 1928 and at the time distributed 70% of the country's required electricity supply, Soteg S.A. – Luxembourg's primary gas supplier, and Saar Ferngas AG – a distribution company created in 1929 in Saarland. On 23 January 2009, all the shares from Cegedel S.A. and Saar Ferngas AG were transferred to Soteg S.A., which – after successfully launching a mandatory public bid for all shares not yet in its possession – underwent extensive restructuring with retrospective effect on 1 January 2009, giving rise to a new energy group. Named Enovos, it included the parent company Enovos International S.A. as well as two main subsidiaries: Creos (formerly Cegedel S.A.) in charge of network activities, and Enovos Luxembourg S.A. in charge of production, sales and marketing. Enovos and Creos each have a subsidiary to serve the German market: Enovos Deutschland and Creos Deutschland.
Over the next two years, Creos consolidated its position on the Luxembourg market. In 2010, it expanded its gas transmission network to include a distribution network and it purchased the natural gas networks from Luxgaz Distribution S.A., whereby the management of commercial activities was handed over to Enovos Luxembourg S.A. On 1 January 2011, the City of Luxembourg transferred its electricity and natural gas networks as well as its teams to Creos in exchange for a shareholding stake. The publicly owned shareholding thus rose from 5.71% to 24.57%. Besides its subsidiary in Germany, Creos also has a shareholding in the following companies: Luxmetering (the Interest Economic Group which pilots the smart metering network) since 2012, Balansys (joint-venture between Creos and Fluxys Belgium) and Ampacimon since 2015 and NEXXTLAB since 2018.
In order to more clearly distinguish the parent company from its subsidiaries – energy provider Enovos and grid operator Creos – Enovos International was given a new visual identity in 2016 and is now called Encevo. End July, private equity firm Ardian sold its stake up to 24.92 percent in Encevo to China Southern Power Grid International, the second grid operator in China and in the world.
Following a reorganization of the Encevo Group in Germany at the end of October 2021, Creos Luxembourg sold its stake in Creos Deutschland Holding GmbH. On 1 July 2023, Laurence Zenner, previously head of CFL Cargo, became the new CEO of Creos Luxembourg.
Business sector
Creos Luxembourg S.A. plans, constructs and maintains the electricity and natural gas transmission and distri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20pocket%20computer%20character%20sets | The Sharp pocket computer character sets are a number of 8-bit character sets used by various Sharp pocket computers and calculators in the 1980s and mid 1990s.
Character sets
PC-12xx and PC-14xx series
The Sharp PC-14xx series (like the Sharp PC-1403 (1986), PC-1403H or PC-1475) uses an 8-bit extended ASCII character set. With minor exceptions the lower half resembles the 7-bit ASCII character set. The upper half contains a full set of half-width Katakana glyphs as well as a number of graphical and mathematical symbols. The Japanese glyphs are not documented and are available only after enabling an undocumented Japanese mode.
PC-150x series
The Sharp PC-1500 series uses a 7-bit character set derived from ASCII. Differences show the Unicode code point below the glyph.
PC-160x series
The Sharp PC-1600 supports two character sets. In "MODE 0", the character set resembles code page 437, whereas in "MODE 1" certain code points are changed to become compatible with the character set of the predecessor, the PC-1500.
PC-E220 series
The Sharp PC-E220 uses an 8-bit character set where the lower half resembles ASCII and the upper half contains various Greek letters, super- and subscript digits as well as various mathematical symbols.
PC-E500 series
The Sharp PC-E500 (1989) and PC-E500S (1995) use an 8-bit character set almost identical to the IBM PC code page 437. Differences are highlighted.
See also
Calculator character sets
Notes
References
Calculator character sets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Grant | Eli Grant is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network, portrayed by Lamon Archey. The character made his first appearance on February 23, 2017, and was introduced as the son of established character, Valerie Grant (Vanessa Williams) and the previously unknown grandson of Julie Olson Williams (Susan Seaforth Hayes). As Valerie's son with Julie's late son David Banning (Gregg Marx), Eli is the product of daytime's first interracial romance, and the first African-American member of the show's core family, the Hortons.
Though he is embraced by Julie and his new family, it puts a strain on his budding romance with Gabi Hernandez (Camila Banus). However, the relationship ultimately falls apart due to Eli's one-night-stand with his co-worker Lani Price (Sal Stowers) which culminates in the birth of their stillborn son. Eli falls for Lani but she struggles fearing the feelings are only due to their shared grief. After interference from Eli's friend Sheila (Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins), the couple finally make it official and start dating. In 2019, their failed wedding leaves Eli devastated when a vengeful Gabi blackmails Lani into dumping him at the altar. The couple reunite in 2020 and are finally married later that year. They go onto have twins a boy and girl an over year later into their marriage.
While the reception to the writing for the character's introduction was less positive, Archey's portrayal quickly won many fans and critics over. Eli and Lani's romance also became quite popular with viewers. The pair go on to make Days of Our Lives history in 2020 when they become the first African-American couple to marry on-screen.
Storylines
In 2017, Eli confronts his mother Valerie about David Banning, his biological father. Furious, Eli reveals he's known about his paternity since he applied to the FBI Academy and Val explains that David wasn't fit to be a father. He later forces Val to tell his grandmother Julie the truth. While Julie and her family welcome Eli, he struggles to forgive Valerie. Eli's cousin Abigail (Marci Miller) sets him up on a failed blind date with Gabi Hernandez. Despite encouragement from Val's boyfriend Abe Carver (James Reynolds) and his daughter Lani Price, Eli still can't forgive Val. He later agrees to use his connections to help his cousin JJ Deveraux (Casey Moss) breakup the local mob war. Eli heads up the investigation which doesn't sit well with Lani. He also comforts Gabi as she struggles to get over Chad DiMera (Billy Flynn) and grieves the loss of her dad when goes to prison. Despite warnings from Julie and Abigail, Eli is determined to continue seeing Gabi and wants to help her get over Chad. Eli serves as a federal liaison in a drug investigation when Lani is exposed to a synthetic drug and also helps Lani cope with her withdrawal syndrome in secret. After being ambushed with a breakfast date orchestrated by Abe and Gabi, Eli begins to understand Val's actions but he sti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant%20converter | A resonant converter is a type of electric power converter that contains a network of inductors and capacitors called a "resonant tank", tuned to resonate at a specific frequency. They find applications in electronics, in integrated circuits.
There are multiple types of resonant converter:
Series Resonant Converter
Parallel Resonant Converter
Class E Resonant Converter
Class E Resonant Rectifier
Zero Voltage Switching Resonant Converter
Zero Current Switching Resonant Converter
Two Quadrant ZVS Resonant Converter
Resonant dc-link inverter
See also
Inverter
Switched-mode power supply
References
Electrical engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Charge%21%20affiliates | The following is a list of affiliates of Charge!, an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group, a subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, with operational partner MGM Television, a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The network launched on February 28, 2017, and features action- and adventure-based programming.
At its launch, 57 stations were indicated as original or future affiliates of Charge! A majority of those stations (41) are stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, with at least two of those stations (WUCW/Minneapolis-Saint Paul and WCWF/Green Bay, Wisconsin) providing their own confirmation of adding Charge! to one of their digital subchannels during launch week.
During Spring 2017, Charge! will be added to other Sinclair owned-or-operated stations. Additionally, Sinclair will seek carriage deals with stations outside its geographic footprint; a notable example of this was the additions of stations formerly affiliated with the now-shuttered MGM network The Works. By the end of June 2017, Sinclair hopes Charge! will reach of over 50% of United States television households.
Stations listed in BOLD are Charge! owned-and-operated.
Current affiliates
Former Affiliates
References
External links
WatchCharge.com, the official network website
Charge! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DyNet | DyNet is the communications network and communications protocol for Dynalite lighting automation and building automation. It is now part of Philips Lighting.
Design
The network runs on a 4-twisted-pair cable of 100Ω 100 MHz CAT5E [1] or a flat cable with RS485 serial port, usually with a RJ-12 connector. A daisy-chain serial network topology is strongly recommended with no stubs. The recommended cable colour-coding is:
Green/White pair = paralleled for GND
Orange/White pair = paralleled for +12V
Blue/White pair = blue for DATA+ and white for DATA-
Brown/White pair = spare or shield if unshielded cable is used.
References
Lighting
Building automation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Horwitz | Susan Horwitz may refer to:
Susan B. Horwitz (1955–2014), American computer scientist
Susan Band Horwitz (born 1937), American biochemist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Fitzroy%20tram%20depot | North Fitzroy tram depot was a depot on the Melbourne tram network. Located on Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy, it opened in 1956 when the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board converted part of its North Fitzroy bus depot for tramway operation when the Bourke Street to Brunswick East line reopened. In 1976 it became a sub-unit of East Preston depot. It was the smallest tram depot in Melbourne.
With the impending takeover of the Public Transport Corporation's bus services from the depot by the National Bus Company, it closed on 18 December 1993 with the remaining 10 trams that operated on route 96 reallocated to South Melbourne.
It briefly reopened in 2008/09 to stable W class trams used on the City Circle while Southbank depot was undergoing refurbishment. In 2020 the tracks leading to the depot were disconnected during works along Nicholson Street.
Immediately to the south is a Public Transport Victoria bus depot, operated since 2022 by Kinetic Melbourne.
References
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1956
1956 establishments in Australia
1993 disestablishments in Australia
Fitzroy, Victoria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Melbourne%20tram%20depot | South Melbourne tram depot was a depot on the Melbourne tram network, located on the corner of Kings Way and Dorcas Street, South Melbourne. It was opened in 1925 by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board, as Hanna Street. In September 1960, it was renamed South Melbourne. On 25 June 1967, W class trams leaving the depot in the early morning featured on the live international Our World TV Special.
The depot closed on 8 February 1997, with operations being transferred to the new Southbank depot, except for route 16, which was transferred to Malvern depot, although trams continued to visit the depot for a few months to use the wheel lathe. In November 1997, the site was sold to developer Renak Holdings for $19 million. The buildings were demolished in June 1998 and the area redeveloped as office accommodation.
References
External links
Photos of remnants of South Melbourne tram depot - Wongm's Rail Gallery
Tram depots in Melbourne
Transport infrastructure completed in 1925
1925 establishments in Australia
1997 disestablishments in Australia
Demolished buildings and structures in Melbourne
Buildings and structures demolished in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20response%20team%20%28resistance%20movement%29 | A rapid response team is a network of safe homes formed to hide and shield undocumented aliens from deportation by U.S. immigration authorities, along with an effort by the ACLU to provide legal assistance to undocumented immigrants facing deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). It is a counter to the threats of mass deportations made by Donald Trump. While it is relatively easy for authorities to arrest undocumented immigrants in businesses and churches, since by federal law such places are considered to be public spaces, it is harder for authorities to enter a private home belonging to a legal citizen, since authorities need to obtain a warrant first before entering. The idea is to make it harder for authorities to find and arrest undocumented immigrants. Rapid response teams are more likely to be organized and led in sanctuary cities such as Los Angeles and Denver. Los Angeles-based pastor Ada Valiente hopes to establish a network of safe homes across southern California and elsewhere.
References
Resistance movements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20response%20team%20%28disambiguation%29 | Rapid response team may refer to:
Rapid response team (medicine), an emergency medical team to act quickly to save lives
Rapid response team (resistance movement), a network of safe houses to hide undocumented aliens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLAN%20program | The CLAN (Computerized Language ANalysis) program is a cross-platform program designed by Brian MacWhinney and written by Leonid Spektor for the purpose of creating and analyzing transcripts in the Child Language Exchange System (CHILDES) database. CLAN is open source software and can be freely downloaded.
History
From 1984 until 2000, CLAN was used exclusively for the analysis of child language data. However, beginning with the funding of the TalkBank system by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2000, the scope of CLAN has broadened. CLAN is now being used to create and analyze a wide variety of corpora in the context of these databanks: CHILDES for child language, AphasiaBank for aphasia, PhonBank for phonology, FluencyBank for fluency disorders, HomeBank for daylong recordings in the home, and SLABank for second language acquisition. The TalkBank website also provides data for seven other spoken language banks dealing with CA (Conversation Analysis), RHD (right hemisphere damage), TBI (traumatic brain injury), LangBank (classical languages), ClassBank (classroom interactions), SamtaleBank (Danish), and BilingBank (bilingualism).
Features
All the data in each of these banks is formatted in the CHAT transcription format which is designed for analysis by CLAN. The CLAN programs include facilities in five different domains:
CLAN includes an editor that focuses on the creation of links between words and utterances in the transcript and segment of the related audio or video media. CLAN provides four methods to facilitate this process. The SoundWalker facility emulates the back and forth actions of a transcribers foot pedal, but using keystrokes. Sonic CHAT provides careful segment link from a waveform. Transcriber mode uses the pressing of a space bar after the completion of an utterance to facilitate transcription, and finally time marks can be edited and produced by hand entry.
CLAN provides all the basic tools of corpus analysis such as key-word and line, concordance, frequency counting, partial regular expression search, and so on.
CLAN provides additional analysis programs for between-speak contingency patterns, utterance and word length, cooccurrence clusters, and so on.
For Qualitative Data Analysis CLAN has program such as GEM for marking special segments of text, Coder's Editor for applying a coding system, CA format for Jeffersonian CA transcription.
To support the use of TalkBank data in the clinical setting, CLAN includes programs like EVAL and KIDEVAL that compare individual subject and groups with a large comparison database in one or more of the TalkBank corpora databases.
References
External links
Manuals for the use of CLAN
Free QDA software
Cross-platform free software
Science software for macOS
Science software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20footprint | In computing, footprint of an application software (or application footprint) provides a sense of sizing of its various constituents, and hence, is a spatial measurement, in a given context, such as disk footprint, memory footprint (a.k.a. runtime footprint), network footprint, etc. In each case, footprint of an application excludes data that it may operate on, as part of storage or execution, but essentially includes programs (executable and libraries), configuration files, resources (binary or textual) and other context-specific components that may be considered as part of the software.
Whereas disk footprint of an application refers to its storage size, runtime footprint translates to memory requirements at execution time. Network footprint, on the other hand, refers to the extent of control information that a network-based application references, again, excluding any data that it may require to transmit (download or upload) to carry its activities. For example, the network footprint of an application that fetches execution logs from a server does not include the sizes of logs it would have fetched in a typical session, but would include control messages that it would have sent and received.
Distinguishing Disk Footprint Vs. Memory Footprint
Often, disk footprint is confused with memory footprint, since both include certain overlapping areas, such program executable, libraries, etc. Though this is true to a certain extent, their individual makeup contain areas that are not relevant or clearly correspond to anything in the other category. For example, runtime footprint of an application would include stack space, which is typically meaningless in the storage footprint paradigm. On the other hand, configuration files read-in by an application, at start up, are usually closed off, but their in-memory representation (such as a property tree or linked list of key-value pairs) maintained for its entire life-time, and hence, do not really correspond, in terms of relative sizing. Further, the configurations read-in from differing formats (say XML, JSON, CSVs, etc.), may contribute to differing disk sizing, but end up being represented as the same internal data structures, ending up in similar, if not identical, memory sizing requirements.
See also
Virtual memory
Memory management
Computer data storage
References
Software optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20Star | Dancing Star () is a 2009 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama film directed by Susara Dinal and produced by Sirasa Movies for MTV Network (Pvt) Ltd. It stars popular singer Dushyanth Weeraman and newcomer Shiroshi Romeshika in lead roles along with Sanath Gunathilake and Nilanthi Dias. Music composed by Bathiya and Santhush. It is the 1120th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema.
Plot
Cast
The film leads with two newcomers to the cinema industry.
Dushyanth Weeraman
Shiroshi Romeshika as Shiroshi
Sanath Gunathilake as Ramanayake
Nilanthi Dias
Hashini Gonagala
Sarath Kothalawala
Roshan Ranawana as Sudesh
Ravindra Randeniya as Greshan
Kumara Thirimadura
Rosy Senanayake
Lakshman Mendis
Vishaka Siriwardana
Nirosha Perera as Nirosha
Malini Fonseka - herself, cameo appearance
Sabeetha Perera - herself, cameo appearance
Soundtrack
References
2009 films
2000s Sinhala-language films
2009 drama films
Sri Lankan drama films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nex%20Machina | Nex Machina is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Housemarque. The game was released in June 2017 for the PlayStation 4 and Windows-based personal computers. Tentatively known as The Jarvis Project during development, veteran arcade game designer Eugene Jarvis served as a creative consultant on the project.
Gameplay
Nex Machina is a twin-stick shoot 'em up video game played from a top-down perspective. Players move through rooms shooting waves of enemies while attempting to save humans. Power-ups and weapon upgrades are dispersed throughout levels.
Development
Nex Machina was developed by Finnish video game studio Housemarque with designer Eugene Jarvis serving as a creative consultant. Jarvis is known for his role in designing arcade shoot 'em ups such as Defender (1981), Robotron: 2084 (1982), and Smash TV (1990). At the 2014 D.I.C.E. Awards, Housemarque's founders Ilari Kuittinen and Harri Tikkanen met with Jarvis and asked him if he would be interested in collaborating on a game. Jarvis' games, particularly Defender, was a source of inspiration for Housemarque's 2013 game Resogun. For the design of Nex Machina, they combined elements from Jarvis' previous shoot 'em ups and Resogun. The development team experimented with different setups for the game's firing mechanics. They followed a different design philosophy than their 2016 game Alienation by choosing not to incorporate character progression systems in Nex Machina.
Nex Machina is powered by a significantly enhanced version of the game engine and voxel technology that was used for Resogun. The inclusion of a volumetric rendering technique known as Signed Distance Fields allows for a smooth transition between complex 3D meshes and voxel particles to give them more flexibility in how objects appear on the screen. The studio dubbed their art style for the game as cablepunk—a darker take on cyberpunk.
Release
Nex Machina was unveiled at the PlayStation Experience in December 2016. Housemarque signed a deal with Sony Interactive Entertainment to bring the game to the PlayStation 4 video game console. In March 2017, Housemarque announced that the game will also be released on Windows-based personal computers. Nex Machina was released on 20 June 2017; it is Housemarque's first self-published game. Housemarque is also considering creating a Nex Machina arcade cabinet with Jarvis' company Raw Thrills.
Reception
The game received generally positive reviews from critics. Metacritic calculated an average score of 88 out of 100 for the PlayStation 4 version based on 45 reviews and 84 out of 100 for the Windows version based on 16 reviews.
Eurogamer ranked the game eighth on their list of the "Top 50 Games of 2017".
Accolades
The game was nominated for "PlayStation Game of the Year" at the Golden Joystick Awards, for "Best PC Game" in Destructoids Game of the Year Awards 2017, and for "Best Action Game" in IGN's Best of 2017 Awards. It won the award for "Best Indie Action Ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritmonitor | Spritmonitor is a German website that collects and delivers information about the fuel consumption of vehicles under real-life conditions. The database is provided by the users of the website themselves (crowdsourcing) who log the fuel-ups of their vehicles in the system.
History
The website was created by Thomas Fischl and Dominik Fisch as a side project to their study of computer science at the University of Passau, Germany in 2001. Initially, the project was known under the name „Consumption Tables“ and was renamed to „Spritmonitor“ after a testing phase („Sprit“ is in Germany colloquial speech for fuel). The website is operated and owned by the Fisch und Fischl GmbH company which was founded in 2008.
Functions
Spritmonitor offers two main functions:
First, it is possible for a car owner to log and track fuel up data and all vehicle-based expenses in the system. Based on this data many different analyses can be performed (e.g., fuel consumption depending on season, kind of fuel, used tires, etc.). Spritmonitor can be used on the road with the corresponding iPhone-, Android-, and Windows Phone-Apps as well as with the mobile version of the website.
Second, the data base entries of Spritmonitor users can be viewed and analysed by others. Thereby, future car owners do not only have to rely on the fuel consumption published by car manufacturers but they can also get information about the-to-be-expected real-life fuel consumption of a vehicle before buying it.
Use in scientific studies and tests
The Spritmonitor data base has reached such a significance in size and quality that it can be used in scientific studies. The ICCT uses the data set in its annual report “From Laboratory To Road” as well as Transport and Environment in its studies “Mind The Gap” and “How clean are electric cars?”. Also the Deutsche Umwelthilfe refers to Spritmonitor in its publication “Verbrauchsabweichungen in Deutschland und den USA”.
Besides those scientific studies, the Spritmonitor data is also used in vehicles tests of different media. The German consumer organisation Stiftung Warentest also references Spritmonitor in their guide to buying used cars.
Figures
The Spritmonitor data base contains over 1 million vehicles of 750,000 users. All the users together logged over 45 million fuel-ups which correspond to a driven distance of 22 billion kilometres.
References
German websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHHT%20%28FM%29 | KHHT (98.9 MHz, Old School 98.9) is an FM radio station broadcasting out of Mettler, California. It is licensed to Point Five LLC.
KHHT carries Point Five's Old School Network as they do on KOCP.
History
KHHT began broadcasting on March 5, 2015.
References
External links
Mass media in Kern County, California
Radio stations established in 2016
HHT (FM)
2016 establishments in California
EBT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICWatch | ICWATCH is a public database of mainly LinkedIn profiles of people in the United States Intelligence Community. The database was created by Transparency Toolkit and was hosted by WikiLeaks.
Background
The publication of global surveillance disclosures in 2013 revealed code names for surveillance projects including MARINA and MAINWAY. It was then discovered that the LinkedIn profiles of individuals in the intelligence community mentioned these code names as well as additional ones. Transparency Toolkit took advantage of this and automated the collection of LinkedIn profiles mentioning such code names, collating them into a searchable database.
Name
The name "ICWATCH" is a play on ICREACH, an alleged top-secret, surveillance-related search engine created by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) after the September 11 attacks.
History
The initial commit to the Git repository of LookingGlass was made on August 23, 2014. LookingGlass is a search tool that was built for use in ICWATCH.
ICWATCH launched on May 6, 2015; on the same day, Transparency Toolkit, the group that created ICWATCH, presented it at the re:publica conference. At launch, the database contained information from over 27,000 LinkedIn profiles.
By mid-May 2015, Transparency Toolkit began receiving requests from individuals to be removed from ICWATCH, including death threats. Following the threats as well as distributed denial-of-service attacks made against the site, WikiLeaks began hosting the website and database by the end of May 2015.
In August 2016 TechCrunch reported that LinkedIn was suing 100 unnamed individuals who had scraped LinkedIn's website, and named ICWATCH as a possible target.
, the database tracks over 100,000 profiles from LinkedIn, Indeed, and other public sources.
In November 2022, ICWATCH and other datasets became unavailable on the WikiLeaks website.
Features
The database can be searched using the company, location, industry, and other parameters of the intelligence workers.
Findings
Most of the discovered profiles are not of those in the National Security Agency but of those working for contractors.
The project also revealed possible trends in employment in the intelligence community. For instance, the "number of people claiming to work with SIGINT databases […] has increased dramatically over the years since 2008, with just a small decline starting in 2013."
M. C. McGrath of Transparency Toolkit believes that the workers are "for the most part, pretty normal people".
Reception
Ian Paul of PC World voiced concern for the safety of the individuals listed in the database.
See also
Open-source intelligence
PRISM (surveillance program)
External links
References
Computer surveillance
Mass surveillance
Online archives of the United States
Privacy of telecommunications
People of the United States intelligence agencies
LinkedIn
Information published by WikiLeaks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matloff | Matloff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Judith Matloff (born 1958), American journalist
Norman Matloff (born 1948), American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental%20Music%20Studios | The Experimental Music Studios (EMS) is an organization or center for electroacoustic and computer music, focusing on synthesis and concert performance of art music, founded by Lejaren Hiller at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958.
The "second electronic music studio developed in the United States", and the "first formally acknowledged electro-acoustic facility in the United States" (since the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, "although formally acknowledged in 1959, in 1952") at an initial cost of $8,000, early equipment included an "old broadcasting studio control panel" as console, microphones, amplifiers, oscilloscopes, tape decks, and other donated items. The studios received a $30,000 grant from Magnavox in 1962, and a $53,100 grant from the National Science Foundation in 1965. Directed by Scott A. Wyatt for forty years, it is currently directed by Eli Fieldsteel, and consists of multiple studios.
Alumni include Adrian Belew, Neely Bruce, Herbert Brün, Mary Ellen Childs, Insook Choi, Donnacha Dennehy, Robert Fleisher, Mara Helmuth, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, Larry Polansky, David Rosenboom, Carla Scaletti, James Tenney, David Ward-Steinman, David Weinstein, and Olly Wilson. Composers who worked at the center between 1958 and 1975 include John Cage, Michael Colgrass, Kenneth Gaburo, Charles Hamm, and John Melby.
Hiller created the MUSICOMP ("MUsic SImulator-Interpreter for COMpositional Procedures") programming language for music composition with Robert Baker in order to create their Computer Cantata (1963) at the studios. MUSICOMP was used by Brün in generating his Non Sequitur VI (1966). Composer James Beauchamp developed the Harmonic Tone Generator (a form of additive synthesis) at the studios.
See also
HPSCHD
Illiac Suite
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sciences%20of%20the%20Artificial | The Sciences of the Artificial (1969) is a book by Herbert A. Simon in the domain of the learning sciences and artificial intelligence; it is especially influential in design theory. The book is themed around how artificial phenomena ought to be categorized, discussing as to whether such phenomena belong within the domain of 'science'.
It has been reviewed many times in scientific literature—including as a special column in The Journal of the Learning Sciences.
The book was followed by two later editions—in 1981 and in 1996—in which Simon broadened the scope of his discussions.
Background
During the 1950s and 1960s, an expanse of literature was published that demonstrated broad interest in treating design as a rigorous and systematic discipline in hopes of establishing design as a science. Primarily through the fields of operational research and Organisation & Methods, these academics purposed to make design compatible with the related disciplines of management science and operations management.
This trend would bring about the “design methods movement" of the 1960s, serving as the backdrop under which Simon wrote the article "Architecture of Complexity" (1962), which would later become The Sciences of the Artificial (1969). In his work, Simon had the broader intention of unifying the social sciences.
Overview
The theme of the book is how ought artificial phenomena be categorized, discussing as to whether such phenomena belong within the domain of 'science'.
Intending to demonstrate that it is possible for there to be an empirical science of 'artificial' phenomena in addition to that of 'natural' phenomena, Simon argues that designed systems are a valid field of study. The distinction Simon provides between the 'artificial' and the 'natural' is that artificial things are synthetic, and characterized in terms of functions, goals, and adaptation.
Simon characterizes an artificial system as an interface that links two environments—inner and outer. Therefore, artificial systems are susceptible to change because they are contingent upon their environment, i.e. the circumstances in which they are in. Moreover, these environments exist in the realm of 'natural science', while the interface is the realm of 'artificial science'.
To Simon, science of the 'artificial' is the science of 'design'; the sciences of the artificial are relevant to "all fields that create designs to perform tasks or fulfill goals and functions." Moreover,Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent -- not with how things are but with how they might be -- in short, with design.Such fields also include those of cognitive psychology, linguistics, economics, management/administration, and education. As such, Simon explores the commonalities of artificial systems including economic systems, business firms, artificial intelligence, complex engineering projects, and social plans.
The book ultimately pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Problem%20Solving | Human Problem Solving (1972) is a book by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon.
See also
problem solving
References
1972 non-fiction books
Artificial intelligence
Collaborative non-fiction books
Prentice Hall books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Gips | James Gips (died June 10, 2018) was an American technologist, academic, and author based in Boston. He was the John R. and Pamela Egan Professor of computer science and professor of information systems at Boston College.
Gips’ research was focused around the use of technology to help people with disabilities live fuller lives. He was the co-inventor and principal developer of two assistive technologies, EagleEyes and Camera Mouse. Gips has written on a variety of topics including ethical robots, shape grammars and aesthetics.
In 2007, Gips won the da Vinci Award for exceptional design and engineering achievements in accessibility and universal design.
Gips died June 10, 2018, aged 72.
Education
After completing his B.S. in Humanities and Engineering from MIT in 1967, Gips joined Stanford University for M.S. in Computer Science, which he completed in 1968. Subsequently, he joined the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, as Officer, U.S. Public Health Service and worked there until 1970. In 1970, he invented shape grammars with George Stiny. He returned for a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford, completing it in 1974. His Ph.D. dissertation, “Shape Grammars and Their Uses,” was published as a book.
Career
Gips joined University of California, Los Angeles in 1974 as Assistant Research Computer Scientist. While he was working there, he wrote the book “Algorithmic Aesthetics” with George Stiny. In 1976, he left UCLA and started teaching at Boston College. In 1979, while still teaching at Boston College, Gips joined Harvard University Summer School as an associate professor and taught there until 1983.
In 1993, Gips along with Peter Olivieri and Joseph Tecce developed EagleEyes, a technology that allows disabled people to use a mouse pointer on a computer screen just by moving their eyes. EagleEyes uses electrodes placed on the persons head to move the mouse pointer by following their eye movements. EagleEyes was a finalist for the Discover Magazine Technological Innovation Awards in 1994 and in 2006 was named a Tech Museum Award Laureate by the Tech Museum of San Jose.
While working on a successor for EagleEyes, Gips and Margrit Betke thought of a program that would allow people to use a mouse with the movement of their head. The idea resulted in Camera Mouse. The application uses a standard webcam to track head movements and move the mouse pointer accordingly. A free public version of Camera Mouse was launched in 2007 and has over 3,000,000 downloads.
Gips has worked with S. Adam Brasel on research on technology and consumer behavior.
Research Awards
2007 - da Vinci Award 2007
Bibliography
Books
Mastering Excel 2016: A Problem-Solving Approach, Pearson. (2016)
Mastering Excel 2013: A Problem-Solving Approach, Pearson. (2013)
Mastering Excel 2010: A Problem-Solving Approach, Pearson. (2011)
Mastering Excel 2007: A Problem-Solving Approach, Pearson. (2007)
An Eye Control Teaching Device for Students Without Language Expressive C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar%20Data%20Recovery | Stellar Data Recovery is a data recovery utility for Windows, macOS and iOS developed by Stellar.
Windows
The Windows version was previously known as Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery.
Mac
The Mac version was previously known as Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery.
See also
List of data recovery software
List of data-erasing software
References
External links
Data recovery
Utilities for Windows
Data recovery software
Hard disk software
2017 software
Windows-only freeware
Freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cech%20complex | In algebraic topology and topological data analysis, the Čech complex is an abstract simplicial complex constructed from a point cloud in any metric space which is meant to capture topological information about the point cloud or the distribution it is drawn from. Given a finite point cloud X and an ε > 0, we construct the Čech complex as follows: Take the elements of X as the vertex set of . Then, for each , let if the set of ε-balls centered at points of σ has a nonempty intersection. In other words, the Čech complex is the nerve of the set of ε-balls centered at points of X. By the nerve lemma, the Čech complex is homotopy equivalent to the union of the balls, also known as the Offset Filtration.
Relation to Vietoris–Rips complex
The Čech complex is a subcomplex of the Vietoris–Rips complex. While the Čech complex is more computationally expensive than the Vietoris–Rips complex, since we must check for higher order intersections of the balls in the complex, the nerve theorem provides a guarantee that the Čech complex is homotopy equivalent to union of the balls in the complex. The Vietoris-Rips complex may not be.
See also
Vietoris–Rips complex
Topological data analysis
Čech cohomology
Computational geometry
Abstract simplicial complex
Simplicial complex
Simplicial homology
References
Algebraic topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Camillo | Chris Camillo is an American author, investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of TickerTags, a social data intelligence company, known for predicting the Brexit result in 2016. In 2020, he was featured in Jack Schwager's book Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you've never heard of.
Career
Chris Camillo started his investing career in 2007, when he invested 20,000 USD in the stock market, and produced more than $2 million in investment returns during the following three-year period. In 2014, an independent accountant's report of his personal investment returns for the period of December 1, 2006 through November 30 2013 was publicly published documenting seven years of 84% averaging portfolio returns.
In 2011, he wrote the book Laughing at Wall Street: How I beat the Pros at investing, published by St. Martin Press, in which he revealed some of his strategies and insights.
In 2015, and after two years of development, Chris launched his social data tool TickerTags, and a company with the same name. TickerTags is a social listening platform that gives investors the ability to monitor the conversation around keywords pertinent to publicly traded securities and other investable assets on platforms like Twitter.
References
Living people
American businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
American investors
21st-century American writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20S3 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is an Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. Belonging to the high-end "S" line, it was unveiled alongside the Galaxy Book at the MWC 2017, and was first released on March 24, 2017. It is available in Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi/4G LTE variants.
Its successor, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S4, was announced on August 1, 2018.
Features
The Galaxy Tab S3 is the first device from Samsung to run Android 7.0 Nougat as default. For the first time since the Galaxy Tab 2, all the languages that were previously absent from other regions are available.
The tablet is slated to receive the Android Pie update in Mid 2019.
The device features a 9.7" 2,048 x 1,536 Super AMOLED display which supports HDR video. The Tab S3 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of on board storage and a 6000mAh battery. It is also supplied with a Samsung Galaxy Note series S Pen, the first of the Tab S range to do so.
Reception
The Verge criticized the cameras on the device, being "softened and smudged", the limitations on multitasking, and the cramped Pogo keyboard, whilst praising the integration of the S Pen and it being lightweight.
Matt Swider of Tech Radar stated that the tablet was "Samsung’s best tablet design yet", praising the addition of the free S-Pen stylus and HDR-ready future-proofed screen while criticizing the costly keyboard and how a tablet "could not replace a laptop".
Xiaomare Blanco of CNET also called the device Samsung's best tablet and stated, "The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is an elegantly designed tablet that comes with a capable stylus. It has a stunning AMOLED screen, fingerprint sensor for extra security and satisfyingly loud quad speakers. It's also the first HDR-ready tablet." The reviewer was also disappointed that large applications take time to load, while the keyboard add-on is an expensive extra.
Max Parker of TrustedReviews noted the good addition of the HDR AMOLED display, S Pen and lightweight, but said that the software "lacks polish", "janky" multitasking on the device and that the glass back of the tablet was a "fingerprint magnet".
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Android (operating system) devices
Galaxy Tab
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior%20Care%20Network | Warrior Care Network is a mental health program that provides care, travel, and accommodations at no cost for United States veterans and their families. Treatment options consist of intensive outpatient care, mainly focusing on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), military sexual trauma (MST), and related conditions such as anxiety and depression. Warrior Care Network began accepting veterans into the program on January 15, 2016. It was created by a joint effort between Wounded Warrior Project, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and partners consisting of four academic medical research hospitals located throughout the United States. The four programs are Operation Mend at UCLA Health, the Veterans Program at Emory Healthcare, Road Home at Rush University Medical Center, and Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program.
Initial cost of the project was $100 million which was funded by a three-year grant from Wounded Warrior Project and its treatment center medical partners.
On October 23, 2018, Wounded Warrior Project announced a reinvestment of $160 million to the Warrior Care Network.
Warrior Care Network offers evidence-based individual psychotherapy for PTSD, including prolonged exposure (PE) or cognitive processing therapy (CPT).
Medical PTSD treatment centers
Los Angeles, CA
In 2007, UCLA Health created the Operation Mend Program via a partnership with the U.S. military and the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2010, Operation Mend began treating PTSD and symptoms of mild to moderate TBI. There is no charge for the patient. Operation Mend handles all the planning burdens associated with medical care. This includes booking flights and scheduling medical appointments. Operation Mend provides a veterans program which includes two to three weeks at the PTSD treatment center, followed by three weeks care from home via telecommuting and social networking.
In 2015, it joined the Warrior Care Network and expanded its veteran reconstructive surgery program to include mental health care from neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and integrative specialists.
In 2015, Wounded Warrior Project committed a $15.7 million grant over three years for UCLA Health to expand the Operation Mend Program. The grant funded a new three-week intensive treatment program for post-9/11 era service members, veterans, and their families living with the challenges of mild TBI and PTSD. All expenses for the veterans, including travel and housing, are covered by Operation Mend.
Atlanta, GA
Emory Healthcare Veterans Program joined Warrior Care Network in June 2015. It received a $15 million grant and was required to raise an additional $7.5 million over the next three years. Emory offers a military sexual trauma survivors program as part of the Warrior Care Network.
On September 17, 2018, Wounded Warrior Project continued to contribute to the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program with a five-year, $29.2 mi |
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