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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3form | 3form Free Knowledge Exchange is one of the earliest examples of human-based computation and human-based genetic algorithm. It uses both human-based selection and three types of human-based innovation (contributing new content, mutation, and recombination), in order to implement collaborative problem-solving between humans.
See also
LinkedIn Answers
Human-based Genetic Algorithm
References
The Kaieteur Institute for Knowledge Management (2001), Categories of digital knowledge exchanges online
Kosorukoff, A (2001), Human-based Genetic Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-2001, 3464-3469
Hideyuki Takagi (2001), Interactive Evolutionary Computation: Fusion of the Capabilities of EC Optimization and Human Evaluation, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.89, no. 9, pp. 1275–1296
Kosorukoff, A. & Goldberg, D. E. (2001) Genetic algorithms for social innovation and creativity (Illigal report No 2001005). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign online
Kosorukoff, A, Goldberg D. E. (2002), Genetic algorithm as a form of organization, Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2002, pp 965–972
Ajwani, D et al. (Eds) Fast Track to The Social Web, Digit magazine, August 2007 p. 116 online
Gloor, P et al. (2008) MIT Handbook of collective intelligence, Examples of collective intelligence online
Javadi, E.; Gebauer, J. "Collaborative Knowledge Creation and Problem Solving: A Systems Design Perspective," System Sciences, 2009. HICSS '09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on, vol., no., pp. 1–10, 5-8 Jan. 2009 doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.111
External links
3form website
Knowledge markets
Human-based computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Pile | Chris Pile may refer to:
Chris Pile (footballer) (born 1967), former footballer
Chris Pile (programmer) (born 1969), British computer programmer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebburn%20Metro%20station | Hebburn is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the town of Hebburn, South Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 24 March 1984, following the opening of the fifth phase of the network, between Heworth and South Shields.
History
The station was opened on 1 March 1872 by the North Eastern Railway. The station became a Tyneside Electrics station around 1938 and de-electricified in 1963. Following closure for conversion in the early 1980s, the station was demolished and re-built, with staggered platforms on each side of the bridge on Station Road.
Metro Flow
During the 2020 Budget, the Government announced the £103million Metro Flow scheme. Between September 2022 and December 2022, a full closure of the line between Pelaw and South Shields took place. Three sections of single line were converted to dual line, between Pelaw and Hebburn (), Hebburn and Jarrow () and Jarrow and Bede (. The project also saw a previously freight-only line electrified and redesigned to operate using a similar system to the existing shared line between Pelaw and Sunderland.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramps providing step-free access to both platforms at Hebburn. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.
There is a free car park available at the station, with 80 spaces, plus four accessible spaces, as well as a taxi rank. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with five cycle pods available for use.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
References
External links
Timetable and station information for Hebburn
1872 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872
1984 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1984
Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line stations
Transport in Tyne and Wear
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicative | Applicative can refer to:
Applicative programming language
Applicative voice
Applicative functor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocalTalk-to-Ethernet%20bridge | A LocalTalk-to-Ethernet Bridge is a network bridge that joins the physical layer of the AppleTalk networking used by previous generations of Apple Computer products to an Ethernet network. This was an important class of products in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before Ethernet support became universal on the Mac lineup.
Some LocalTalk-to-Ethernet Bridges only performed Appletalk bridging. Others were also able to bridge other protocols using ad-hoc standards. One example was the MacIP system that allowed LocalTalk-based Macs to send and receive TCP/IP (internet) packets using the bridges as a go-between.
Examples
Hardware devices:
Asante: AsanteTalk
Cayman Systems: GatorBox
Compatible Systems: Ether Route/TCP, Ether Route II, RISC Router 3000E
Dayna Communications: EtherPrint, EtherPrint Plus, EtherPrint-T, EtherPrint-T Plus
Farallon: EtherPrint, EtherWave LocalTalk Adapter, InterRoute/5, StarRouter, EtherMac iPrint Adapter LT
FOCUS Enhancements EtherLAN PRINT
Hayes Inter-bridge
Kinetics: FastPath - in later years, available from Shiva Networks
Sonic Systems: microPrint, microBridge TCP/IP
Transware: EtherWay
Tribe Computer Works: TribeStar
Webster Computer Corporation: MultiGate, MultiPort Gateway, MultiPort/LT
Software in MacTCP era (<1995):
Apple IP Gateway from Apple Computer
SuperBridge/TCP from Sonic Systems
Software in Open Transport era (>1995):
Internet Gateway from Vicomsoft
IPNetRouter from Sustainable Softworks
LocalTalk Bridge from Apple Computer
Other Software
macipgw
Netatalk
References
External links
Oxford University resource regarding DDP-IP Gateways
LocalTalk Bridge v2.1 download (CNET)
Sustainable Softworks IPNetRouter
Webster MultiPort/LT guide
Webster Computer Corporation Multiport Gateway - Software Version 4.7 & documentation
Asante AsantéTalk (Product Info)
Asante AsantéTalk (Online Shop)
Sonic MicroPrint Manual
Sonic MicroPrint Software
Usenet post regarding successful use of the AsanteTalk bridge with an Apple IIgs
macipgw project on Sourceforge
Apple Inc. hardware
Network protocols
Networking hardware
Physical layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRED%20%28FM%29 | KRED is a commercial radio station in Eureka, California, broadcasting on 92.3 FM. KRED airs country music programming from Jones Radio Networks.
External links
Official Website
RED
Country radio stations in the United States
Mass media in Humboldt County, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20International%20Computer | First International Computer, Inc. (FIC; ) is a Taiwanese original equipment manufacturer and system integrator for automotive electronics and smart building controls. FIC provides design consultancy and supply chain management services for automotive electronic suppliers worldwide. FIC group has a workforce of over 5000 employees from 2 design manufacturing/assembly sites and 4 branch offices in Taiwan, Mainland China and the United States.
History
Founded in 1979 by Dr. Ming-J Chien, in Taipei, Taiwan, FIC used to be a famous computer and component manufacturer in worldwide countries from 1979~2010; And in year of 2004, Mr. Leo Chien, the son of Dr. Ming, joined the group, and contributed his expertise as COO of FIC in 2008; and in 2011, Mr. Leo Chien began to lead the group towards a new business development, with insight into the foreseeable market demand and analysis, and gradually moved the team towards the direction of automotive electronic design and manufacturing business. Throughout the years, he integrated the group's relevant technical resources in order to support the automotive electronic design business more comprehensively and became CEO of FIC in 2016. FIC is publicly listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE 3701).
1979: Charlene Wang and Ming Chien found company as a sales agent for main frame and micro computers.
1983: The company begins assembling its first PC computer systems under the Leo brand.
1987: The company enters motherboard manufacturing with large-scale production facility in Hsien-Tien.
1989: First International begins assembling PCs with Intel processors.
1991: U.S. and European subsidiaries are opened and production of the first in-house personal computer design begins.
1994: A configuration plant is opened in the Netherlands.
1996: A manufacturing and configuration plant is opened in Austin, Texas.
1997: A plant is opened in the Czech Republic.
1998: A plant is opened in Brazil.
1999: A large scale production facility is opened in Guanzhou, in mainland China.
2002: A new manufacturing headquarters is set up in China.
2003: Created the first AIO PC and became the e-book OEM partner of Panasonic.
2004: Transformed to a Holding company as known as FICG.
2005: Became the NB ODM partner of Fujitsu Siemens.
2007: Launched 7” UMPC.
2008: Obtained the value-added notebook orders from Fujitsu.
2010: Announced reseller agreement with Tridium to provide solutions in Green House & Environmental Controls.
2011: Focus on Automotive Electronic Design Business, and Spun off the IPC BU to a new company-Ubiqconn Technology
2012: Signed a Letter of Intent on healthcare business with NTT DATA Corporation.
2014: Ubiqconn is selected as In-vehicle System Provider for 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
2016: Expands its factory-installed products in Automotive solution.
2021: FIC Green System has passed the cloud DNP3.0 certification of Taipower.
Service Categories
First International Computer services include: DMS (Design Manufacturin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisionPLUS | VisionPLUS is a financial software application from First Data Corporation. Originally developed by the Paysys Research and Development Group, this application is mainly used for credit card transaction processing by banks and transaction processing companies, storing and processing credit card, debit card, prepaid, closed end loan accounts and similar financial transactions such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Europay, and private label transactions against those accounts. More than 600 million cards around the world are processed on different versions of this application software.
Modules
VisionPLUS consists of various modules that work together to manage the life cycle of accounts. VisionPLUS allows financial institutions to configure their own product features and functionality. The main functional modules of VisionPLUS include:
* Credit Decision Management (CDM) - Credit application processing and account opening
* Credit Management System (CMS) - Account credit processing module, which also handles debit and prepaid card accounts.
* Collections Tracking Analysis (CTA) - Delinquent accounts collections and tracking module
* Account Services Management (ASM) - Customer services module
* Financial Authorisation System (FAS) - Financial transactions authorizations module
* Letters tracking System (LTS) - Letter generation module
* Security Sub System (SSC) - Common Routines System (formerly Security Sub-System)
* World Wide Security System (WSS) - User Access Management
* Interchange Tracking System (ITS) - Dispute tracking module
* Transaction Management System (TRAMS) - Front-end processor for batched transactions
* Merchant BankCard System (MBS) - Merchant acquiring system
* VisionPLUS Messaging eXchange (VMx) - XML messaging gateway to VisionPLUS
* Hierarchy Company System (HCS) – Supports commercial card products with deep hierarchies
* Loyalty Management System (LMS) - Managing of loyalty programs based on transactional activity and account events
* EMV Scripting System (ESS) - Rules engine based EMV script management
* Key Management System (KMS) - Cryptography key management for magnetic and EMV chip cards
* Offer Management System (OMS) - Marketing Campaign management for account holders
CMS is the core module and plays an important part, as all account-related activities are posted in the CMS module.
VisionPLUS Software was introduced by Paysys International Inc. in 1996. In 2001, First Data Corporation acquired Paysys and since then VisionPLUS has been marketed by FirstData in Europe and elsewhere.
Versions
1981 PaySys International, founded as Credit Card Software, Inc., (CCS)
1982 CCS shipped its first product, CardPac. Its main market was the bankcard industry (Visa and MasterCard transaction processing only).
1988 Vision21 was released for the pri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller%20%28disambiguation%29 | A chiller is a machine to remove heat from liquid.
Chiller may also refer to:
Entertainment
Chiller (video game), a video game
Chiller (TV network), a defunct NBCUniversal-owned cable channel specializing in horror
Chiller (TV series), British television series
Chiller Theatre (disambiguation), the name of multiple science fiction and horror movie programs
Chiller Cabinet, radio show created by Ben Eshmade
Wes Craven's Chiller, a made for TV horror/thriller released in 1985
Batman & Robin: The Chiller, a roller-coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure
Chiller, an episode of The Annoying Orange, spoof of Michael Jackson's Thriller
Chiller, the webtoon popularized by its story "Bongcheon-Dong Ghost"
Other
Water chiller, in relation to hydroponics
An Indian slang for change (small denominations of money given in return for a larger denominations)
See also
Cooler (disambiguation)
Chill (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/92.7%20Big%20FM | BIG FM is one of India’s largest radio networks that broadcasts primarily at 92.7 MHz. It is part of Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd. with 58 stations reaching about 1.9K towns and covering 1.2 lakh villages in the country. It is accessible to over 34 crore Indians across the country. With its distinctive and thought-provoking content, BIG FM is known for its timeless music and is a pioneer in storytelling with key properties such as Suhaana Safar with Annu Kapoor and Yaadon Ka Idiot Box with Neelesh Misra. In January 2019, BIG FM relaunched with a new philosophy and positioning statement - “Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho”. The biggest radio show - Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho Season 1 was launched with Vidya Balan as the host followed by a successful Season 2 with Sadhguru.
History
BIG FM first aired in September 2006 and since then it has curated remarkable content and has created some high impact communication campaigns that have been triggers of transformation. With its expansive reach, localised content and credible RJs the brand has played the role of a ‘thought inspirer’ and an agent of positive change in society. With this at its core, BIG FM refreshed its positioning in 2019 to take a second look at current situations and conversations by imbibing different perspectives in mind. This ideology is reflected across all the content, purpose-driven initiatives and client integrated campaigns. In 2020, BIG FM made its foray into the space of web radio with the launch of BIG Radio Online (BRO), with music and interactive shows targeting the youth of Hindi-speaking markets, taking a significant step in its journey of becoming a platform-agnostic audio entertainment entity.
Recent times
The radio network has already made significant inroads in digital audio storytelling with many key properties being made available in podcast format across various audio streaming platforms. It has further strengthened its partnerships with a dedicated focus on regional languages as well. BIG FM has long-lasting partnerships with Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn.
They have successfully launched Big Living Shop - For the people who strive to live a sustainable life or who wish to but don't know where to start and how? The RJ's will curate sustainable and environmental friendly products from food to clothes to wellness, they have got it all covered for you. We all believe we can make simple tweaks to our consumption patterns with smart environment-friendly, locally crafted products, and solutions to live a more enriching life.⠀
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Blue Mic was launched in the month of October 2021 which is in association with Hungama Music, Hungama Play and Artist Aloud. The aim of this property is to give platform to Independent artists from all over the country. Every week a new artist is introduced and their songs are played from Monday to Friday from 4 PM - 5 PM. Also an Interview with performance is released on the YouTube channel of BIG FM every |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacIP | MacIP refers to a standard for encapsulating Internet Protocol (IP) packets within the AppleTalk DDP protocol. This allows Macintosh computers with LocalTalk networking hardware to access the normally Ethernet-based connections for TCP/IP based network services. This was an important bridging technology during the era when Ethernet and TCP/IP were rapidly growing in popularity in the early 1990s.
Software implementing MacIP, such as MacTCP or Open Transport, was installed on the computer and a MacIP Gateway was placed elsewhere on the network. Applications that communicate with TCP/IP (such as Telnet) have their IP packets encapsulated in DDP for transmission across the LocalTalk network to the MacIP Gateway. The MacIP Gateway strips off the DDP encapsulation and forwards the IP packet on the IP network.
The gateways were often implemented as part of a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge device, small hardware systems primarily designed to allow communications between LocalTalk and EtherTalk equipped AppleTalk machines (like the Mac II and a LaserWriter). MacIP routing was often implemented as an optional adjunct to the AppleTalk routing. Cisco Systems supported AppleTalk in their proprietary IOS (up to and including version 12.4(15)T14, on select platforms) which in turn could provide MacIP-Services.
History
The practice of encapsulating IP packets within DDP was originally developed at Stanford University as the Stanford Ethernet - AppleTalk Gateway (SEAGATE) by Bill Croft in 1984 and 1985.
The SEAGATE hardware was commercialized by Kinetics in 1985. The Kinetics Internet Protocol (KIP) was used to integrate with their FastPath LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge. Apple Computer embraced the use of the encapsulation technology, which came to be known as MacIP.
One of the mandates for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) "IP over AppleTalk" working group was to document existing MacIP implementations and to develop a specification for MacIP that could be proposed as a standard. A draft document was submitted, however it was not accepted as a standard and has subsequently expired.
Apple subsequently developed a new protocol AppleShare IP which is not backwardly compatible.
See also
Kinetics FastPath
GatorBox
LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge
References
External links
MacIP Internet Draft
TCP/IP Packets: How AppleTalk Encapsulation Works
Page describing software required to connect vintage Apple computers to networks
Network World article "Apple IP Gateway spurs ANF on MacIP standard"
Page describing how to use Cisco routers as MacIP gateways English translation
Macintosh operating systems APIs
Internet protocols
Network layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling%20End%20Point | In telecommunications, a Signaling End Point (SEP) is an SS7 endpoint. This is to be contrasted with a Signal Transfer Point (STP).
Examples include:
Intelligent Network components such as Service Control Points (SCPs) and Service Switching Points (SSPs)
Telephone exchanges implementing Telephone User Part (TUP) or ISDN User Part (ISUP)
Mobile Switching Centers implementing MAP
References
Signaling System 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Sutner | Klaus Sutner is a Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and is also a former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs for the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. His research interests include cellular automata, discrete mathematics as pertains to computation, and computational complexity theory. He developed a hybrid Mathematica/C++ application named Automata that manipulates finite-state machines and their syntactic semigroups. He "has survived five decades in the martial arts. Barely." and is the head instructor at the Three-Rivers Aikikai.
References
External links
Homepage at Carnegie Mellon University
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Cellular automatists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNet | OpenNet may refer to the following:
OpenNet, the original name for B92.net, the Internet division of Serbian radio and television broadcaster B92; see
OpenNet, a sensitive but unclassified network that supports e-mail and data applications of the U.S. State Department domestically and abroad; see
OpenNet Initiative, a joint project with the goal of monitoring and reporting internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations
OpenNet Singapore OpenNet Singapore, a joint venture of four companies building a national broadband network
OpenNet (website), a Russian news site about free and open-source software
OpenNet (organization), a South Korean Non-governmental organization
OpenNet (ISP), a Cambodian ISP that shut down operations in February 2022. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role%20Class%20Model | In computer science, the role class model is a role analysis pattern described (but not invented ) by Francis G. Mossé in his article on Modelling Roles. The role class pattern provides the ability for a class to play multiple roles and to embed the role characteristic in a dedicated class.
In our society, as we built it, roles are everywhere. Anyone trying to work in a team to create something has a role. In cinematography, many different persons take part in the creation of a film: the film director, the producer, actors, play writer(s), etc.
Even our State organisations are based on various roles. In a Republic, you have a President, Ministers, Deputies, etc.
Dealing with these situations is one of the problems encountered most during object-oriented analysis. Francis G. Mossé has identified 5 role analysis patterns that can be used to solve most role related problems: Role Inheritance, Association Roles, Role Classes, Generalised Role Classes and Association Class Roles. They all have various degrees of constraints, flexibility or power, which together offer a complete solution to most role-related problems.
Intent
A model that allows a class to play one or more roles at the same time. A role - as defined by Francis Mossé in Modelling Roles - is a concept of a purpose that a class could have in a certain context.
Context
The following example is given:
Many persons work on a film, each of them with a different role. At the difference of other concepts, a person is not restricted to one role. One could be both the director and a character in a film. Modelling roles for such a concept would require that a class could play more than a single role.
A solution using inheritance to conceptualise a role - cf. the Inheritance Role Model - is not possible, as this would allow a person to play only a single role. As one can see in Figure 1 below, the inheritance role model says that a character, who is a person, is playing in a film. But there is no way to say that the person playing the character is also the director. Because, the inheritance makes a character a person in general, not a particular person.
Problem
As explained in Context, using inheritance to play more than one role cannot be considered, because a class could not play two roles at the same time in such a context (cf. the Inheritance Role Model).
The expectation is to have a model where a class could be seen as more than one concept or role, and where attributes specific to one of those concepts can be specified.
Solution
A solution to the previous problem could be to use the Association Role Model, which could create an association between a person and a film. However, specific information on each role could not be stored in such a case. The role class model provides the flexibility of the association with role-specific attributes and even class operations, if needed.
This meta model - in Figure 2 - shows the role class like an element linking the Client and the BaseClass. Fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges%20Televisjon | Norges Televisjon AS, or NTV, operates the digital terrestrial television (DTT) network in Norway. The infrastructure is owned by the Telenor-subsidiary Norkring, while the content is provided by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and RiksTV. The company is owned in equal parts by NRK, TV 2 and Telenor. The same companies also own RiksTV. RiksTV offers a range of pay television channels.
NTV was established in 2002, and received a 15-year concession in 2006. DTT was introduced gradually starting in 2007, and by the end of 2008, full coverage had been reached. In 2008, the analog shutdown started, which was completed by December 2009. The main network will provide digital TV-signals to 95 percent of the Norwegian population, including any areas in a satellite television shadow.
History
Norkring, a Telenor subsidiary that also owns the analog television network, started trial sending of DTT in 1999, based on DVB-T and MPEG-2 technology. Norsk Televisjon was founded by NRK and TV 2 on 15 February 2002. Telenor became a partner on 16 September 2005. The concession was awarded at the Norwegian Ministry of Culture on 2 July 2006, with a duration of 15 years.
The company was established to finance the DTT network in Norway. With a needed investment of NOK 1.5 billion, it was planned that this could be financed by private investors by allowing them to use most of the capacity to distribute pay TV, through the company RiksTV. The physical installations are owned by Norkring, and broadcasting is done with DVB-T standard using MPEG-4 encoding.
DTT was introduced gradually starting in 2007, and by the end of 2008, full coverage had been reached. In 2008, the analog shutdown started, after a 6–12 months period of parallel operation in each region, which was completed at the end of 2009. At the beginning, all channels available in the analog network were also available unencrypted in the digital network, including the NRK channels, TV 2 and local television. In 2010, TV 2 became a pay channel, with all non-NRK channels only available via a subscription from RiksTV.
Content
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Three television channels and thirteen unencrypted radio channels are available. These are financed through television licence. The television channels are NRK1, NRK2 and NRK3/NRK Super (these broadcast on the same channel at different times). The radio channels are NRK P1, NRK P2, NRK P3, NRK mP3, NRK Super, NRK Sport, NRK Alltid Nyheter, NRK Sámi Radio, NRK P1+, NRK Jazz, NRK Folkemusikk, NRK Klassisk and NRK Stortinget.
RiksTV
The first channels were announced on 12 June 2007 were: TV 2, TVNorge, TV 3, TV 2 Zebra, Discovery Channel, Disney Channel, The Voice TV, SportN, TV 2 Filmkanalen, TV 2 Nyhetskanalen, Viasat 4, TVNorge2 (was named FEM the next day), Canal+ Sport 1 and Canal+ Film 1. The radio channels P4, Kanal 24 and Radio 1 were also included.
On 4 July, it was announced that Animal Planet, Canal+ Film 2, the National Geograph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Lists of Lepidoptera genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile%20FM | Smile FM is a network of non-commercial, contemporary Christian radio stations owned by Superior Communications, a nonprofit organization. Most programming originates from studios in Williamston, Michigan (just east of Lansing) and is relayed (with local inserts) by an expanding number of stations throughout the state. The network also has studios in Imlay City, Michigan.
Smile FM was originally two separate networks. The first, The Light, was founded in December 1996, when WLGH Lansing, Michigan began broadcasting. The second, Joy FM, began on December 12, 2000, with WHYT (renamed as WWKM and again as WDTR) in Imlay City. While both played contemporary Christian music, The Light aimed for a younger audience. In June 2004, the two networks were combined to form Smile FM in a "wedding ceremony" conducted at Oldsmobile Park in Lansing. The new name eliminated confusion since many other unrelated stations used The Light and Joy FM names.
The network is notable for putting stations on the air at a low cost. They lease existing towers and manufacture some of their own equipment. Unlike many Christian stations, they play music with only a few short breaks for weather, news, announcements, and features. Smile FM has also pioneered the use of new technology to help distribute and customize its programming, including developing an emergency weather notification system that is faster and more reliable than the required EAS system (which they also operate).
The licenses for the four stations are split between four subsidiaries: Superior Communications, Michigan Community Radio, Northland Community Broadcasters and Smile FM.
In January 2008, Smile FM established WWKM (now WDTR) Imlay City as the flagship of an experimental Smile FM Praise network playing Christian contemporary worship music. Previously, the station had broadcast traditional Christian music and hymns. The Smile FM Praise experiment was ended in 2009 and plans made to move that station to the northern suburbs of Detroit.
The owners have often recycled the call letters of famous Michigan stations of the past for their stations. WDTR (now WRCJ), WHYT (now WDVD), and WVMV (now WDZH) were once used by Detroit stations. WTAC (now WSNL) was the leading top 40 station in Flint during the 1960s (and, ironically, a pioneering contemporary Christian station during the 1980s). WKPK was used by a popular top 40 station of the 1980s and 1990s in northern Michigan (now WSRT). WAIR was an oldies station in northern Michigan (now WFDX) and the calls were also used for a construction permit for a station in Honor (now WSRJ). WWKM was a now-defunct station in Harrison (and Smile FM's 88.5 FM station in the Alpena area, WSFP, once bore the calls of WWKM's sister station WKKM, which is now WTWS in Houghton Lake).
Others were named for the original formats of the stations. WLGH and WTLI were The Light. All of the stations beginning with WJ were in or scheduled to be in the Joy FM network. All call letters b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20Health%20Alliance | The Oxford Health Alliance (OxHA) is a charitable organisation based in London, UK, and with a global network of participants. Its aim is to reduce the global impact of the epidemic of four major chronic diseases – diabetes, heart disease, lung diseases and some cancers – which are caused by three risk factors: tobacco use, and poor diet and lack of physical activity that lead to obesity.
OxHA enables collaboration between experts and activists from a wide range of disciplines in order to raise awareness and change behaviours, policies and perspectives about the epidemic of chronic disease at every level of society. OxHA advocates and facilitates action and collaboration and encourages research about the risk factors and chronic disease prevention to promote health at local, national and international levels.
OxHA was founded in 2003 under the name Oxford Vision 2020. It was renamed 'the Oxford Health Alliance' in early 2005.
Focus areas
In particular, OxHA focuses on five topics central to the prevention of chronic disease and reducing the risk factors - the organisation's work in these areas promotes translating compelling evidence into practical and actionable solutions. OxHA assembles and promotes evidence in each area, in conjunction with a network of experts and partner organisations.
The economic argument for prevention: the costs of chronic disease are already vast, and without urgent action these costs will continue to increase.
Prevention in the workplace: chronic disease risk reduction in the workplace can have a major impact on the health of employees and their families, while also demonstrating social responsibility and improving productivity.
Youth, children and future health: the insights and enthusiasm of young people can change perceptions and lifestyles of future generations.
Environmental design for prevention: designers, architects and urban planners can assist in creating an environment in which the healthy choices are the easy choices.
Industry's role in prevention: prevention efforts by companies and industries can have a far-reaching effect on consumers and communities.
Annual Summits
OxHA convenes its members at annual summits. The first two meetings, held at the University of Oxford in 2003 and 2004, underscored the need for a truly global approach to the challenges of chronic disease, and the third meeting, in Yale, saw the start of OxHA's ‘transition to action’.
The 2006 meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa on the theme of 'Health in transition: working together'. It gave particular focus to the developing world and to ways in which the alliance can use the technology offered by new media, including the launch of 3four50.com.
References
Medical and health organisations based in London
Health charities in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20controls | Security controls are safeguards or countermeasures to avoid, detect, counteract, or minimize security risks to physical property, information, computer systems, or other assets. In the field of information security, such controls protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
Systems of controls can be referred to as frameworks or standards. Frameworks can enable an organization to manage security controls across different types of assets with consistency.
Types of security controls
Security controls can be classified by various criteria. For example, controls are occasionally classified by when they act relative to a security breach:
Before the event, preventive controls are intended to prevent an incident from occurring e.g. by locking out unauthorized intruders;
During the event, detective controls are intended to identify and characterize an incident in progress e.g. by sounding the intruder alarm and alerting the security guards or police;
After the event, corrective controls are intended to limit the extent of any damage caused by the incident e.g. by recovering the organization to normal working status as efficiently as possible.
Security controls can also be classified according to their characteristics, for example:
Physical controls e.g. fences, doors, locks and fire extinguishers;
Procedural or administrative controls e.g. incident response processes, management oversight, security awareness and training;
Technical or logical controls e.g. user authentication (login) and logical access controls, antivirus software, firewalls;
Legal and regulatory or compliance controls e.g. privacy laws, policies and clauses.
For more information on security controls in computing, see Defense in depth (computing) and Information security
Information security standards and control frameworks
Numerous information security standards promote good security practices and define frameworks or systems to structure the analysis and design for managing information security controls. Some of the most well known standards are outlined below.
International Standards Organization
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 was released in October 2022. All organizations certified to ISO 27001:2013 are obliged to transition to the new version of the Standard within 3 years (by October 2025).
The 2022 version of the Standard specifies 93 controls in 4 groups:
A.5: Organisational controls
A.6: People controls
A.7: Physical controls
A.8: Technological controls
It groups these controls into operational capabilities as follows:
Governance
Asset management
Information protection
Human resource security
Physical security
System and network security
Application security
Secure configuration
Identity and access management
Threat and vulnerability management
Continuity
Supplier relationships security
Legal and compliance
Information security event management; and
Information_security_assurance
The previous version of the Standard, ISO/IEC 27001, specified 114 contr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid | ArVid (Archiver on Video) () is a data backup solution using a VHS tape as a storage medium. It was very popular in Russia and the rest of the former USSR in the mid-1990s.
It was produced in Zelenograd, Russia by PO KSI.
Features
Using low-cost VHS tapes and recording units for data backup.
High reliability
Hamming code error correction
Easy data copying between two VHS units (eliminating need of a computer for data copying)
Disadvantages
Inefficient tape capacity usage (only 2 grades of luminance signal spectrum were used)
Poor software support
Operation
A VHS recorder unit should be connected to an ArVid ISA board by a composite video cable. Unit operation is controlled by a remote control emulator using an LED.
Device may operate in two modes: low data rate at 200 KB/s and high data rate at 325 KB/s (equivalent to roughly 1.33× and 2.17× CDR recording speed). The original, lower recording speed was retained as a user option because not all VHS recorders of the time offered sufficient recording quality to reliably support the higher speed.
An E-180 video tape is able to hold 2 GB of uncompressed data at the lower rate, more than sufficient for most PC hard drives of the time. This can be shown by calculating 200 KB/s × 60 s/min × 60 min/h × 3 h = 2.06 GB (2.06 × 230 bytes), which also leaves a few minutes spare for header and synchronisation space.
Note that it is unclear here whether "200 kbyte" means (200 × 103) or (200 × 210); the above calculation assumes the latter, but the former still produces a capacity of 2.01 GB (2.01 × 230 bytes), providing 2.00 GB of capacity in a little under 2 hours and 59 minutes. Similarly, this means that an E240 4-hour tape, using the higher data rate, would be capable of storing between 4.35 and 4.46 GB (230 bytes), approximately equivalent to a standard single-layer recordable DVD.
Models
ArVid 1010, 100 kbyte/s, 4 kbyte RAM, was first of ArVid devices. Its production started in 1992.
ArVid 1020, 200 kbyte/s, no RAM, was a successor to ArVid 1010 using more advanced integrated circuitry.
ArVid 1030/1031, 200 kbyte/s, 64 kbyte RAM, had better internal design, less power consumption, was smaller in size and was made using CPLD. It allowed automatic switching to a TV set when device was not in use.
ArVid 1051/1052, 325 kbyte/s, 128/512 kbyte RAM
References
External links
ArVid description and images (in Russian)
Drivers for linux and FreeBSD
VHS
Computer storage devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureMessage | Sophos PureMessage is an anti-spam program by Sophos plc, which is aimed primarily at corporate environments.
Sophos PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange — part of Email Security and Data Protection — blocks spam, viruses, spyware and phishing. Scanning all inbound, outbound and internal email and Exchange message stores, it proactively protects against email-borne threats, and prevents confidential data being lost.
Anti-spam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20Givens | James Wallace Givens, Jr. (December 14, 1910 – March 5, 1993) was a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. Born the son of two teachers in Alberene, Virginia (a small town near Charlottesville), he obtained his bachelor's degree from their young alma mater, Lynchburg College in 1928 at the age of 17; his master's degree from the University of Virginia under Ben Zion Linfield in 1931 (after a one-year fellowship at the University of Kentucky); and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1936 under Oswald Veblen. (Dissertation title: Tensor Coordinates of Linear Spaces.)
He was an assistant to Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study during his doctoral work, and later a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. He also taught at Wayne State University and Northwestern University, and worked early on with UNIVAC I at the Courant Institute of New York University (NYU) and later with ORACLE at Oak Ridge (both early vacuum tube computers).
In 1963 he was appointed senior scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, where he was later (1964-1970) director of the Division of Applied Mathematics. From 1968 to 1970 he was fourteenth president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In 1979 he retired as professor emeritus at Northwestern University. Argonne National Laboratory currently offers a named fellowship in his honor.
Selected publications
References
Givens, Wallace. "Numerical computation of the characteristic values of a real symmetric matrix". Oak Ridge Report Number ORNL 1574 (physics) (1954).
Givens, Wallace. "Computation of plane unitary rotations transforming a general matrix to triangular form". J. SIAM 6(1) (1958), pp. 26–50.
Yood, Charles Nelson. "ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMPUTER AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, 1946-1992 ", Ph.D Thesis, Penn State University, 2005.
External links
The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s, Transcript Number 14 (PMC14)
Princeton Obituary
1910 births
1993 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Wayne State University faculty
Presidents of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Ocean%20Shelf%20Tracking%20Project | The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST) is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that researches the behavior of marine animals through the use of ocean telemetry and data management systems. This system of telemetry consists of highly efficient lines of acoustic receivers that create sections of the continental shelf along the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The acoustic receivers pick up signals from the tagged animals as they pass along the lines, allowing for the documentation of movement patterns. The receivers also allow for the estimation of parameters such as swimming speed and mortality. The trackers sit on the seabed of the continental shelf and in the major rivers of the world. This method can be used to improve fishing skills and management.
The program started in 2002 and was initially limited to the study of the movement and ocean-survival of both hatchery-raised and wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest. After the successful pilot period, the program has now moved into the tracking of trout, sharks, rockfish, and lingcod.
See also
Ocean Tracking Network
References
External links
Marine biology
Fisheries databases
Databases in Canada
Continental shelves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Measurement%20Group | The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), founded in 1974, is a worldwide non-profit organization of data processing professionals whose work involves measuring and managing the performance of computing systems. In this context, performance is understood to mean the response time of software applications of interest, and the overall capacity (or throughput) characteristics of the system, or of some part of the system.
CMG members are primarily concerned with evaluating and maximizing the performance of existing computer systems and networks, and with capacity management, in which planned enhancements to existing systems or the designs of new systems are evaluated to find the necessary resources required to provide adequate performance at a reasonable cost.
Mission and activities
CMG's purpose is to promote the exchange of technical information among Information Technology (IT) professionals through regional groups, technical publications, and an annual conference. In common with other user groups devoted to a broad range of products or technologies (for example SHARE or DECUS), CMG provides education, networking, and leadership opportunities for its members.
The association's activities provide:
Extensive introductory education for new professionals
Information on emerging technology as well as methodology for existing performance professionals
Forums for the exchange of information, promotion of new ideas, and discussions of management information requirements
Focus on practical applications and results oriented methodologies
Encouragement for educational institutions to focus on the IT curriculum.
CMG groups
With over thirty regional and international groups, CMG's wide reaching structure emphasizes an extensive information and peer network. Regional groups hold local educational meetings, typically three or four times a year, and many publish informational newsletters. Regional meetings may span a half-day, a full day (the most common), or occasionally two days. International CMG groups also hold their own annual conferences and publish their own conference proceedings.
In the US, Regional CMG groups cover the following areas: Boston, Connecticut, Florida, Greater Atlanta, Kansas City, Midwest, Minneapolis, National Capital Area, New York, Northern California, Northwest, Ohio Valley, Philadelphia, Rocky Mountain, St Louis, Salt Lake City, Southern, Southern California, and South West.
International CMG groups exist in Australia, Austria and Eastern Europe (CMG AE), Canada, Central Europe (CECMG), Italy, China, the Netherlands South Africa, India and the United Kingdom (UKCMG)
Focus areas
CMG allows members to exchange information about the measurement, management and performance of Information technology systems. Topics of particular concern among CMG members include:
Awards
At its annual conference, CMG presents several awards recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of computer measurement and performance evaluation:
The A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn%20%28computing%29 | Spawn in computing refers to a function that loads and executes a new child process.
The current process may wait for the child to terminate or may continue to execute concurrent computing. Creating a new subprocess requires enough memory in which both the child process and the current program can execute.
There is a family of spawn functions in DOS, inherited by Microsoft Windows.
There is also a different family of spawn functions in an optional extension of the POSIX standards
.
DOS/Windows spawn functions
The DOS/Windows spawn functions are inspired by Unix functions fork and exec; however, as these operating systems do not support fork, the spawn function was supplied as a replacement for the fork-exec combination. However, the spawn function, although it deals adequately with the most common use cases, lacks the full power of fork-exec, since after fork any process settings which will survive an exec may be changed. However, in most cases, this deficiency can be made up for by using the more low-level CreateProcess API.
In the spawnl, , spawnv, and calls, the child process inherits the environment of the parent. Files that are open when a spawn call is made remain open in the child process.
Prototype
int spawnl(int mode, char *path, char *arg0, ...);
int spawnle(int mode, char *path, char *arg0, ..., char ** envp);
int spawnlp(int mode, char *path, char *arg0, ...);
int spawnlpe(int mode, char *path, char *arg0, ..., char ** envp);
int spawnv(int mode, char *path, char **argv);
int spawnve(int mode, char *path, char **argv, char ** envp);
int spawnvp(int mode, char *path, char **argv);
int spawnvpe(int mode, char *path, char **argv, char ** envp);
Function names
The base name of each function is spawn, followed by one or more letters:
Mode
The mode argument determines the way the child is run. Values for mode are:
Path
The path argument specifies the filename of the program to execute. For and only, if the filename does not have a path and is not in the current directory, the PATH environment variable determines which directories to search for the file. The string pointed to by argv[0] is the name of the program to run.
The command line passed to the spawned program is made up of the character strings, arg0 through , in the spawn call. The accepted maximum combined length of these strings differs between compilers, ranging from 128 characters on Digital Mars to 1024 on Microsoft Visual C++ or
as much as memory permits, on DJGPP. The last argument after has to be a NULL pointer.
argv
The argv argument is an array of character pointers. The last pointer in the array must be null to indicate the end of the list.
envp
The spawnle, , , and calls allow the user to alter the child process's environment by passing a list of environment settings in the argument. This argument is an array of character pointers; each pointer (except for the last one) points to a null-terminated string defining an environment variable. An environment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT%20General%20Circulation%20Model | The MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm) is a numerical computer code that solves the equations of motion governing the ocean or Earth's atmosphere using the finite volume method. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was one of the first non-hydrostatic models of the ocean. It has an automatically generated adjoint that allows the model to be used for data assimilation. The MITgcm is written in the programming language Fortran.
History
See also
Physical oceanography
Global climate model
References
External links
The MITgcm home page
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science at MIT
The ECCO2 consortium
Physical oceanography
Numerical climate and weather models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston%20Park%20Metro%20station | Kingston Park is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburb of Kingston Park, Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 15 September 1985.
History
The area surrounding Kingston Park was largely constructed during the late 1970s and early 1980s, meaning that a station did not appear as part of the original plans for the Tyne and Wear Metro network, as the area did not have the required population density.
Kingston Park has two platforms, which are staggered on opposite sides of the level crossing on Brunton Lane.
In October 2012, traffic enforcement cameras were installed at the level crossings at Kingston Park and Bank Foot. Similar cameras were installed at Callerton Parkway in 2008.
In 2018, the station, along with others on the Airport branch, were refurbished as part of the Metro: All Change programme. The project saw improvements to accessibility, security and energy efficiency, as well as the re-branding of the station to the new black and white corporate colour scheme.
The station was used by 443,907 passengers in 2017–18, making it the third-most-used station on the Airport branch, after South Gosforth (1,608,102) and Regent Centre (713,308).
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramped access to both platforms at Kingston Park. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.
A pay and display car park (operated by Newcastle City Council) is available, with 96 spaces, plus four accessible spaces. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with five cycle pods available for use.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
Accidents and incidents
On 22 March 1983, prior to the opening of the station, a Tyne and Wear Metro service collided with a bus operated by the Tyne and Wear PTE on the level crossing. Two people were injured in the accident.
References
External links
Timetable and station information for Kingston Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
1985 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1985
Tyne and Wear Metro Green line stations
Transport in Newcastle upon Tyne
Transport in Tyne and Wear
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent%20Centre%20Interchange | Regent Centre is a Tyne and Wear Metro station in Zone B, serving the suburb of Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. It joined the network on 10 May 1981, following the opening of the second phase of the network, between South Gosforth and Bank Foot.
History
Regent Centre is situated at the site of the former West Gosforth station, which opened in June 1905, as part of the Ponteland and Darras Hall branch of the Blyth and Tyne Railway. The line closed to passengers in June 1929, with the station closing to goods services in August 1967.
West Gosforth station consisted of two side platforms, a simple pitched roof station building, and a signal box. The station was demolished entirely in the late 1970s, in order to allow for the construction of Regent Centre Interchange. The new station takes its name from the adjacent Regent Centre business park which had been constructed in the years leading up to the conversion of the railway line to Metro.
Regent Centre Interchange consists of a two platform station below street level, covered by the station concourse. A multi-storey car park and bus station are located on the upper level, with a tall canopy covering the entrance to the station building, extending across the bus station.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with two lifts providing step-free access to platforms. As part of the Metro: All Change programme, new lifts and escalators were installed at the station in 2013.
The station is equipped with ticket machines, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network. The station houses a newsagent's shop in the ticket hall.
There is a large pay and display car park available at the station, with 183 spaces, plus eight accessible spaces. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with four cycle lockers and five cycle pods available for use. A bus interchange is also available at the station, providing frequent connections in and around Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday. Additional services operate between and Regent Centre at peak times.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
Bus station
The bus station is located above the Tyne and Wear Metro station. It opened in May 1981, and similarly to Heworth and Four Lane Ends, was purpose-built for the Tyne and Wear Metro network.
Regent Centre Interchange is served by Arriva North East and Go North East's local bus services, with frequent routes serving Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland. The bus station has five depar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dribbleware | Dribbleware, in the context of computer software, is a product for which patches are often being released. The term usually has negative connotations, and can refer to software which hasn't been tested properly prior to release, or for which planned features could not be implemented.
Dribbleware is not necessarily due to poor programming; it can be indicative of a product whose development was rushed to meet a release date.
References
Software industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Blade%202 | Power Blade 2, known in Japan as , is an platform game published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Family Computer. It was released first in Japan in September 1992 and in North America in October of the same year. It is the sequel to the game Power Blade.
Summary and gameplay
The game takes place in the year 2200 and follows NOVA, the protagonist from the first Power Blade game, as he sets out on a mission from the U.S. Department of Defense to destroy the Delta Foundation, who has created a new cyborg that can threaten global security if it falls into the wrong hands. Just as in Power Blade, this game is similar in gameplay to the Mega Man series in that the player has the freedom to select any stage to play. It also adds some new features also seen in the Mega Man series, such as the ability of the player to slide and a wide assortment of weaponry.
Power Blade 2 was made first in North America and was then released in Japan with the title Captain Saver. As in the first game, the title comes from a special power-up called the "Power Suit", which gives the player additional firepower capabilities.
The object of the game is to destroy the Delta Foundation. The player can choose the order of the first four levels/buildings before unlocking Area 5. The goal in each building is to destroy the boss in order to destroy the building. After the player defeats the Area 5 boss, the game proceeds to the final level.
One of the biggest changes to this game was the addition of four collectible power suits. Instead of finding a temporary power suit, the player can collect four powerful suits by defeating a mid level bosses. The four suits are the Newtsuit, which lets the player climb the ceiling and walls, the Wet Suit, which allows the player to swim, the Rocket Suit, which lets the player fly, and a defensive suit called the Patriot Suit.
Plot
December 24, 2200; The Delta Foundation, a weapons research company, developed a new cyborg soldier. The U.S. President was told that if the government did not buy it within the week, they would sell it to another government, which would pose a threat if it fell into the hands of a hostile government. Nova is given a secret mission from the U.S. Department of Defense to destroy the Delta Foundation.
Reception
Power Blade 2 was one of the featured articles in the October 1992 issue of Nintendo Power magazine. Power Blade 2 was one of the featured articles in the September 1992 issue of Electric Gaming Monthly magazine, in which they gave the game a rating of 5.5/10.
References
External links
1992 video games
Natsume (company) games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Platformers
Taito games
Video game sequels
Video games scored by Kinuyo Yamashita
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qcodo | Qcodo is an open-source PHP web application framework which builds an object-relational model (ORM), CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) UI pages, and AJAX hooks from an existing data model. It additionally includes a tightly integrated HTML and JavaScript form toolkit which interfaces directly with the generated entities. It is a robust, comprehensive framework which can be utilized by small and large Web applications alike.
Structure
The framework consists of three main components: a code generator, QForms (OOP generated stateful Ajax- or server-processed webform), QQuery (OOP based SQL query builder) -- all of which can be used independently of each other. The code generator parses an existing relational database structure, and builds an object-relational mapping (ORM), as well as several remote interfaces (SOAP, AJAX) to the ORM. The ORM in Qcodo can be extended to provide user-maintained functionality (via object subclassing). QForms is an ASP.NET-inspired templating engine in which each form element is an object exposing its functionality and state via methods and attributes.
QForms maintain page as well as form state, and include the ability to validate fields, trigger events, and associate AJAX calls. QForms bind tightly to the ORM, allowing developers to rapidly and iteratively change any of three components in the model–view–controller (MVC) architecture with little impact to the other components.
The Qcodo Package Manager (QPM) was introduced starting with Qcodo v0.4.0 to allow community members a much more streamlined and efficient way to post and share modules, enhancements and fixes of the Qcodo development framework with each other. The Qcodo.com website can be used to view user-submitted QPM packages that community members have contributed at the QPM Section of the website.
Qcodo was conceived and developed by Mike Ho, and his company Quasidea Development acts as the central maintainer with dozens of contributors from the Qcodo Community that provide new features and releases via the Qcodo website.
The website, itself, is written in Qcodo and custom developed for the community, including suite of tools like online forums, bug/issue tracking, online showcase and QPM management. It is integrated with GitHub to manage releases of the Qcodo Framework itself. The code for Qcodo.com is also open sourced and available at GitHub as well.
Uses
The framework is mature and has been deployed in many production environments in everything from highly trafficked social networks to large Fortune 500 and government organizations, including:
NASA Online Project Information System
NASA Exploration Life Support
Stanford University School of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics Research
Uloop, the largest student-to-student Classifieds network
Chess.com, the largest Chess-focused social network
Academy of Country Music, the official website
Delo.si, the official website of Delo, the major daily newspaper of Slovenia
The framework h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMAPI | Data Management API (DMAPI) is the interface defined in the X/Open document "Systems Management: Data Storage Management (XDSM) API" dated February 1997. XFS, IBM JFS, VxFS, AdvFS, StorNext and IBM Spectrum Scale file systems support DMAPI for Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM).
External links
Systems Management: Data Storage Management (XDSM) API
Overview of IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management API
Open Source XFS Source code with DMAPI Implementation and Test Suite
Data management
Open Group standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas%20on%20the%20Radio | Costas on the Radio was an American radio show hosted by Bob Costas. It aired weekly on Premiere Radio Networks (affiliates could choose to air the show on Saturdays or Sundays). Although a longtime sportscaster who is best known for his work on NBC Sports, Costas discussed many issues besides sports, interviewing celebrities and newsmakers in a format similar to that of fellow broadcaster Larry King's radio days.
The show began its run on September 16, 2006. Costas on the Radio succeeds Costas Coast to Coast, a syndicated call-in radio show hosted by Costas from 1986 to 1996.
The show ended its run on May 31, 2009.
The show was created by Sean Compton and Costas.
Format
Each two-hour show featured Costas administering one or two longform interviews (usually lasting for an entire hour) of various athletes, sports book authors, journalists, and other entertainers and newsmakers not necessarily involved in the sports industry. Guests usually appeared in studio, but interviews were occasionally conducted over the telephone. Costas described the show in a promo as having "something for everyone."
Special features
Packaged with the show were the daily minute-long Costas Cut and Costas Minute features, for sports and news/talk stations respectively. The features included bits from prior interviews on the main show.
Syndication
Each show was recorded on Thursday afternoon, and Premiere Radio fed the program to its affiliates via satellite four times each weekend.
The show originated from New York City or St. Louis and was syndicated across the United States and Canada, on over 220 AM and FM stations, by Premiere Radio Networks. It also aired three times each weekend on XM Talk Radio 165.
Guests
Guests of Costas on the Radio included (but are not limited to) the following:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former National Basketball Association player
Ben Affleck, actor
Lance Armstrong, 7-time Tour de France-winning cyclist
Tiki Barber, former New York Giants running back
Chuck Berry, musician
Gary Bettman, National Hockey League commissioner
Brian Billick, former Baltimore Ravens Head Coach
Larry Bird, former National Basketball Association player
Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and New York Knicks forward
Mark Brunell, New York Jets quarterback.
Joe Buck, Fox MLB/NFL announcer
Frank Caliendo, comedian/impressionist, best known for his impersonation of John Madden
Linda Cohn, anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter
Dabney Coleman, actor
Cris Collinsworth, NBC Sports and NFL Network
Kevin Costner, actor
Chili Davis, former Major League Baseball designated hitter
Frank Deford, sportswriter
Dan Dierdorf, former St. Louis Cardinals lineman and current NFL on CBS commentator
Héctor Elizondo, actor
Roger Goodell, National Football League Commissioner
Rutger Hauer, actor
Ice Cube, rapper/actor/director
Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys principal owner
Richard Karn, actor
John La Puma, physician and host of Lifetime TV's "Health Corner"
Matt Lauer, The Today Show anchor
Mark Lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurk | Lurk, lurker, or lurking may refer to:
Lurker, a person who often reads discussions on internet networks but seldom contributes to them.
Lurk, a single long pole held with both hands, used in telemark skiing
Lurking variable, or a confounding variable, in statistics
Lorelei, nicknamed "Lurking Rock", a rock on the eastern bank of the Rhine River near St. Goarshausen, Germany
Entertainment
The Lurkers, 1970s English punk rock group
Lurk (Dungeons & Dragons)
Lurk, another name for a vampire in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off comic Fray
Lurk, a character in the 1972 British comedy film Up the Front
Lurk, another name for a myrddraal, a fictional shadowspawn species in the Wheel of Time series
Lurk (TV series), 2009 Chinese TV series
Lurking Unknown, a fictional Marvel Comics character
The Lurkers, a 2004-2005 IDW Publishing comics series
See also
The Lurking Fear, a 1923 horror fiction short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Lurking in Suburbia, a 2006 comedy film
Idle (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobeNet | GlobeNet is a wholesale telecom operator that connects the Americas with various services (Network, IP, Data Center and Security), supported by its subsea cable system and IT infrastructure.
The subsea cable system has landing points in:
Tuckerton, New Jersey, USA
Boca Raton, Florida, USA
St David's, Bermuda
Maiquetia, Venezuela
Fortaleza, Brazil
Praia Grande, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Barranquilla, Colombia
Las Toninas, Argentina
Over the last year, the company has set up a data center in Barranquilla (Colombia), a major interconnection point (IX) in Fortaleza (Brazil) and a new subsea cable to Argentina, called Malbec.
Ownership
GlobeNet is a private company, part of BTG Pactual's Infrastructure Fund II. BTG Pactual is one of the most important investment banks in Latin America.
Sources
External links
Company's website.
BTG Pactual website.
GlobeNet submarine cable map. Telegeography.
GlobeNet's Malbec cable extension to Argentina. Telegeography.
GlobeNet named Frost and Sullivan 2018 Company of the Year.
GlobeNet wins ‘Connectivity Provider of the Year Award’ at Datacloud Awards 2018.
GlobeNet wins at Capacity Media's Global Carriers Awards 2018.
GlobeNet wins big at Global Carrier Community Awards 2018.
Submarine communications cables in the North Atlantic Ocean
Submarine communications cables in the Caribbean Sea
Submarine communications cables in the South Atlantic Ocean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20analog | Dual analog may refer to:
Dual analog control of video games
The Dual Analog Controller released by Sony for the PlayStation
Channel bonding, a computer networking arrangement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20modular%20redundancy | In computing, triple modular redundancy, sometimes called triple-mode redundancy, (TMR) is a fault-tolerant form of N-modular redundancy, in which three systems perform a process and that result is processed by a majority-voting system to produce a single output. If any one of the three systems fails, the other two systems can correct and mask the fault.
The TMR concept can be applied to many forms of redundancy, such as software redundancy in the form of N-version programming, and is commonly found in fault-tolerant computer systems.
Space satellite systems often use TMR, although satellite RAM usually uses Hamming error correction.
Some ECC memory uses triple modular redundancy hardware (rather than the more common Hamming code), because triple modular redundancy hardware is faster than Hamming error correction hardware. Called repetition code, some communication systems use N-modular redundancy as a simple form of forward error correction. For example, 5-modular redundancy communication systems (such as FlexRay) use the majority of 5 samples – if any 2 of the 5 results are erroneous, the other 3 results can correct and mask the fault.
Modular redundancy is a basic concept, dating to antiquity, while the first use of TMR in a computer was the Czechoslovak computer SAPO, in the 1950s.
General case
The general case of TMR is called N-modular redundancy, in which any positive number of replications of the same action is used. The number is typically taken to be at least three, so that error correction by majority vote can take place; it is also usually taken to be odd, so that no ties may happen.
Majority logic gate
In TMR, three identical logic circuits (logic gates) are used to compute the same set of specified Boolean function. If there are no circuit failures, the outputs of the three circuits are identical. But due to circuit failures, the outputs of the three circuits may be different.
A majority logic gate is used to decide which of the circuits' outputs is the correct output. The majority gate output is 1 if two or more of the inputs of the majority gate are 1; output is 0 if two or more of the majority gate's inputs are 0.
The majority logic gate is a simple AND–OR circuit: if the inputs to the majority gate are denoted by x, y and z, then the output of the majority gate is
Thus, the majority gate is the carry output of a full adder, i.e., the majority gate is a voting machine.
TMR operation
Assuming the Boolean function computed by the three identical logic gates has value 1, then: (a) if no circuit has failed, all three circuits produce an output of value 1, and the majority gate output has value 1. (b) if one circuit fails and produces an output of 0, while the other two are working correctly and produce an output of 1, the majority gate output is 1, i.e., it still has the correct value. And similarly for the case when the Boolean function computed by the three identical circuits has value 0. Thus, the majority gate o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Martin%20%28radio%20presenter%29 | Paul 'The Axeman' Martin was a DJ on the New Zealand rock music radio station called The Rock. It began in Hamilton and later moved to Auckland. Over the years the station has been networked around New Zealand. The station broadcasts rock music from "the '80s, '90s and now".
Career
Martin was one of The Rock's longest serving jocks, presenting, programming and producing his weekly metal show The Axe Attack on the Rock since 1992.
He has interviewed Slayer, Metallica, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Megadeth, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, Lita Ford, Deftones, Rob Halford, Steve Vai and Max Cavalera.
He writes for New Zealand music Rip It Up magazine as well as Australia's Tattoos DownUnder. Martin started his own record label "HELLMAN RECORDS" to promote New Zealand music. His first CD release The Axe Attack New Zealand Metal Vol.1 boasts 16 New Zealand metal acts.
Until early 2006 he was a DJ at Hamilton metal bar, 6 Feet Under.
Martin is still based in Hamilton in the Waikato and used to commute to Auckland on Sundays to do the Axe Attack live.
Affiliations
Martin is a member of NZ's Heavily Tattooed Club.
Albums
Martin has released albums with Knightshade and Blackjack and currently plays in a new agro metal band World War Four and Martin-skin.
World War Four has supported notable acts such as Black Label Society, Down, Heaven and Hell, and Motorhead,
and opened New Zealand's 1st International Guitar Festival 2008 alongside Uli Jon Roth (Scorpions), Alex Skolnick (Testament),
Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), Joe Satriani, Gilbey Clarke, Vernon Reid.
He also performs in The Fabulous Farrelli Bros with the rest of the Rock jocks and often pops up with cover band Head First.
In 2010, Martin joined New Zealand alternative metal band Devilskin as the band's bass player.
References
External links
The Axe Attack Official Website
The Rock Official Website
World War Fours Official Website
New Zealand radio presenters
New Zealand male songwriters
New Zealand guitarists
New Zealand male guitarists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20tools%20for%20Linux | Wireless tools for Linux is a collection of user-space utilities written for Linux kernel-based operating systems to support and facilitate the configuration of device drivers of wireless network interface controllers and some related aspects of networking using the Linux Wireless Extension. The Wireless tools for Linux and Linux Wireless Extension are maintained by Jean Tourrilhes and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.
Adoption
It is included with most operating system distributions built on the Linux kernel.
In many Linux distributions, this package is included by default, or based on whether a wireless card is present. If it is not automatically installed by the distribution, it is usually easy to find in binary form.
Frontends
Due to the relative complexity of requiring several separate commands for one task (e.g. iwlist and iwconfig to find and sync with a wireless access point), some recommend using frontends provided by GNOME and KDE, or an application called NetGo, to manipulate these settings.
Alternatives
The Linux kernel authors consider wireless tools package deprecated; the alternative being the more recent iw utility. Especially the iw dev wlan0 scan output provides many additional details over the iwlist scan output.
Package tools
ifrename
ifrename allows to rename wireless network interfaces based on various static criteria to assign a consistent name to each interface.
By default, interface names are dynamic, and each network adapter is assigned the first available name (eth0, eth1...) while the order network interfaces are created may vary. Now ifrename allows the user to decide what name a network interface will have. It can use a variety of selectors to match interface names to the network interfaces on the system, the most common selector is the interface MAC address.
ifrename must be run before interfaces are brought up, which is why it's mostly useful in various scripts (init, hotplug) but is seldom used directly by the user. By default it renames all present system interfaces using mappings defined in /etc/iftab.
iwconfig
iwconfig is used to display and change the parameters of the network interface which are specific to the wireless operation (e.g. interface name, frequency, SSID). It may also be used to display the wireless statistics (extracted from /proc/net/wireless).
In the free Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX operating systems, the role of iwconfig is performed by an expanded ifconfig command.
Sample iwconfig output
The following command displays information about the currently associated wireless network.
$ iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"OSU_PUB"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.427 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:9D:C6:38:2D
Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=91/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCDR | The acronym HCDR may refer to:
High-capacity data radio
The album Hate Crew Deathroll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Analog%20Computing%20with%20Emergent%20Transient%20States | Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States or FACETS is a European project to research the properties of the human brain. Established and funded by the European Union in September 2005, the five-year project involves approximately 80 scientists from Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The main project goal is to address questions about how the brain computes. Another objective is to create microchip hardware equaling approximately 200,000 neurons with 50 million synapses on a single silicon wafer. Current prototypes are running 100,000 times faster than their biological counterparts, which would make them the fastest analog computing devices ever built for neuronal computations.
The institutions involved are the University of Heidelberg, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) of Gif sur Yvette, the CNRS of Marseille, the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique, the University of Freiburg, the University of Graz, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, the University of London, the University of Plymouth, the University of Bordeaux, the University of Debrecen, the University of Dresden and the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at Technische Universitat Graz.
External links
FACETS website
a quick introduction
Computational neuroscience
Neurophysiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gelechiid%20genera%3A%20K | The large moth family Gelechiidae contains the following genera:
Karwandania
Keiferia
Kiwaia
Klimeschiopsis
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Gelechiidae
Gelechiid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudos | Kudos may refer to:
Arts and media
Kudos (computer game), a life simulation game produced by Positech Games
Kudos (production company), a UK-based film and television production company
Kudos, a fictional currency used by the Dwellers in The Algebraist
Other uses
Kudos (computer program), a vocational-counseling computer program
Kudos (granola bar), a brand of chocolate-covered cereal bar
Kudos, praise and honor received for an achievement
See also
Cudos (disambiguation)
Kudus (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Warsaw | A Warsaw trolleybus system formed part of the public transport network of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, during two separate periods. The first trolleybus system was established in 1946 and lasted until 1973. It had a maximum of 10 routes. The second system, comprising only one route, was in operation from 1983 until 1995. Between 1992 and its closure, it was operated by Zarząd Transportu Miejskiego (ZTM), in English the Public Transport Authority (Warsaw).
History
During World War II, most of the mass transit infrastructure in Warsaw was destroyed. The city was in need of a cheap and efficient transport network. In 1945, thirty secondhand trolleybuses, along with material for installation of overhead lines, were obtained from the Moscow trolleybus system, in the Soviet Union, and the first two lines in Warsaw opened on 5 January 1946. They operated from Plac Unii Lubelskiej to Warszawa Gdańska train station, and from the Łazienkowska depot to the city centre (ulica Piękna). In March 1946, another line was opened (Plac Saski–Bonifraterska), but was closed and replaced by trams in December. By 1955, five new trolleybus lines were opened and existing ones extended, covering mainly the city centre.
The first system's fleet had also included 15 French-built Vétra trolleybuses, purchased new in 1947, and 30 East German-built vehicles, received in 1952–53. These were later supplanted by trolleybuses built by Škoda, in what was then Czechoslovakia. They included seven of model 7Tr, 45 of model 8Tr and 77 of model 9Tr, though not all in service during the same periods.
1967 started a period of fast decline in both the number of trolleybuses and the trolleybus lines in Warsaw. The national government policy at the time was that as much Polish coal as possible be exported while the oil be imported at very low prices from the USSR. It was decided that electricity production should be decreased in order to save coal for export. The last trolleybus line (52) closed on 29 June 1973.
Second system
The last period of the Warsaw trolleybus history started in 1977, when it was decided that the existing vehicles should be used on a new line between Warsaw and the southern suburb of Piaseczno. An additional longer route to Piaseczno was planned, through Wilanów, Powsin and Konstancin-Jeziorna. However, economic conditions made construction of the latter line impossible, and only the former, on the direct route between Warsaw and Piaseczno, was opened. This single route, numbered 51, opened on 1 June 1983, returning trolleybus service to Warsaw. In the meantime, it had been decided to purchase new trolleybuses, and these came from Uritsky (ZIU), in Russia, model ZIU-682. These wore a red-and-cream paint scheme. New trolleybuses were also purchased from the Polish manufacturer, Jelcz. Route 51 was long, and the depot (garage) was located only about from the outer end of the line.
After 1989 it became apparent that the ZIU trolleybuses were in need |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CricketGraph | CricketGraph was a graphic software program for the Apple Macintosh by Cricket Software sold until 1996. It could take tabulated data and create common business and statistics graphs such as bar chart, pie chart, scatter plots and radial plots. These graphs could be saved in common image formats such as PICT and EPS and added to other documents. It did not have the same capabilities as a spreadsheet.
Competition
The main competitor was Visual Business, as well as the built-in graphing packages in Microsoft Excel, Informix Wingz and specialty statistics software such as Systat.
Although this package was written cleanly enough to run on much later versions of Classic Mac OS, the feature set was eventually superseded by packages such as DataGraph, DeltaGraph and KaleidaGraph.
See also
List of information graphics software
References
Plotting software
Classic Mac OS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20system%20manufacturers | A computer system is a nominally complete computer that includes the hardware, operating system (main software), and the means to use peripheral equipment needed and used for full or mostly full operation. Such systems may constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers, and workstations, among other classes of computing. The following is a list of notable manufacturers and sellers of computer systems, both present and past.
Current
Inactive
See also
Market share of personal computer vendors
List of computer hardware manufacturers
List of laptop brands and manufacturers
List of touch-solution manufacturers
Notes
References
Computing by company
Computing-related lists
Lists of manufacturers
Lists of information technology companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B | Notepad+ is a freeware text editor for Windows operating systems and is intended as a replacement for the Notepad editor installed by default on Windows. It has more formatting features but, like Notepad, works only with plain text. It can open text files of any size, and a single instance of the program can have multiple files open simultaneously. It supports dragging and dropping text within a file and between files, and supports multiple fonts and colours.
Notepad+ is available from the company RogSoft. It was developed by Dutch programmer Rogier Meurs. It was first released in 1996. Originally, it had the advantage of being able to open files of any size, because until 2000 Notepad could not open files larger than 64 KB.
See also
Notepad++
List of text editors
Comparison of text editors
References
External links
RogSoft Homepage (Internet Archive)
Windows text editors
Notepad replacements
Freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic%20%28amateur%20extrasolar%20planet%20search%20project%29 | Systemic is a research project designed to search data for extrasolar planets using amateur astronomers. The project utilizes a downloaded console provided on the Systemic website, allowing users to sort through data sets in search of characteristics which may reveal the presence of a planet within a planetary system.
Volunteers can choose to search simulated or actual planetary systems. The simulations are used to help Systemic gain a deeper understanding of real extrasolar planets. The real Solar System and the Galilean moons of Jupiter's natural satellites (hidden among the "challenge" data sets) are among the more than 450 data sets of real, and 520 simulated, star systems.
The systemic program itself is programmed in Java for ease in running on multiple operating systems. The program is available as an online applet or for download to be run at home.
The program presents a data set for a system and some tools to help analyze the data and some feedback on the "goodness of fit" and "long term stability" of the currently defined system. The data set is the radial velocity derived from doppler measurements of the star (or similar object) over time. Some data sets look like a sinusoidal curve while others seem far more complex. Any radial velocity is presumed to be from the gravitational tug(s) of possibly multiple bodies who combine to create the specific data curve. The reason the program has to manipulated by the user is that the complexities of multi-body orbits are not solvable to unique answers. While some star systems could be resolved to a simple pair of bodies most will not. The systemic software implements several ways of calculating orbital mechanics – from the simplistic Keplerian laws to an implementation of Runge–Kutta methods.
Results one obtains can be uploaded and are analyzed independently for goodness of fit and stability and are posted among the proposed solutions for that system. If a result is found to be unstable it is removed from the list of candidate solutions, though it is possible a particular system really is in a period of transition and instability (presumed to be a rare condition) so great that planets would be ejected from the system.
Example analysis
The default system the systemic software opens with is "14Her" or 14 Herculis. There are some 20 "unique" posted possible solutions with only a general idea of "goodness of fit" to help decide favored solutions (the best solution posted so far is by user EricFDiaz who has a three-planet system to explain the curve of the velocities of the star over time). It must be understood that results from using systemic are not a discovery, just a possible fit to the data. It could be correct, partially correct, or not even in the ballpark of whatever, if anything, is eventually found.
Team
Systemic is designed, and run by:
Greg Laughlin — University of California Santa Cruz
Aaron Wolf — Caltech
Stefano Meschiari — University of California Santa Cruz
Eugenio Rivera — Uni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar%20Gupta | Amar Gupta (born 1953) is an Indian computer scientist based in the United States. Gupta has worked in academics, private companies, and international organizations in positions that involved analysis and leveraging of opportunities at the intersection of technology and business, as well as the design, development, and implementation of prototype systems that led to widespread adoption of new techniques and technologies. He has surmounted several strategic, business, technical, economic, legal, and public policy barriers related to several innovative products and services.
Gupta has spent the bulk of his career at MIT. In 2015, he rejoined MIT to work at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences (IMES), Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) on innovation and entrepreneurship related to Digital Health and Globally Distributed Teams. He serves as Principal/Co-Principal Investigator and Coordinator for "Telemedicine" and "Enhancing Productivity of Geographically Distributed Teams" areas.
Gupta currently teaches a MIT School of Engineering course—Telehealth and Telemedicine for Enhancing Global Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges. The course received very high grades in student evaluation of course contents and instructor for all 3 consecutive years. MIT uses a scale of 1-7 for such grades with 1 being very poor and 7 being excellent, and the course received Median Grade of 7 overall in all years. Over these past years, he has assisted multiple startups established by students of this course and supervise research of dozens of students. During 2018, he delivered the keynote addresses at events in DC for senior officials of federal government officials and for federation of state medical boards. His subsequent address streamlined to a global audience is available online.
During the interim period that he was away from MIT, Gupta served as Phyllis and Ivan Seidenberg Endowed Professor and dean of the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University, US, and as the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Management and Technology at the University of Arizona, US. At the latter university, he was also Professor of Entrepreneuship and Professor of MIS at Eller College of Management, Professor of Computer Science in College of Science, Professor of Latin American Studies in College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Community, Environment and Policy in Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, professor at James E. Rogers College of Law, Member of the HOPE Center in College of Pharmacy, and the director of Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Technology Initiative at the University of Arizona.
Education
Gupta was born in 1953 in Nadiad, Gujarat, India. He received Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1974 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. his undergraduate project on the design and implementation of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%20Five | Formula Five was a British science magazine programme on BBC Radio 5 aimed at listeners in their late teens. It ran from 1990 to 1994, when the network closed.
Sue Nelson presented the program for most of its time on air, with Jez Nelson co-presenting the final series. Quentin Cooper was a regular contributor.
As well as science, the series featured a running serial of Captain Scarlet, using soundtracks from the television series of the same name.
References
1990 radio programme debuts
BBC Radio 5 (former)
Science radio programmes
Youth science
1994 radio programme endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov%20Chessmate | Kasparov Chessmate is a chess-playing computer program by The Learning Company for which Garry Kasparov is co-credited as game designer. Kasparov also makes an appearance as the last computer profile which has to be defeated in order to win the "Kasparov Chess Club" tournament.
The program has two basic single-player modes. The first allows a player to set up the board, time and difficulty level for a single game and allows for undoing mistakes. The second, the "Kasparov Chess Club", sets up a series of opponents of increasing skill, all of which have to be defeated in order to win. The game also allows for playing human opponents locally.
Unlike the Chessmaster series, it has no real training or tutorial section. It does however feature the option to synchronise the PC version with the Palm version, so the player's rating and progress in the tournament can be preserved across platforms.
The game was ported to in-flight entertainment platforms by DTI Software.
References
2003 video games
Chess software
Windows games
Classic Mac OS games
Garry Kasparov
Palm OS games
The Learning Company games
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Argyris | Johann Hadji Argyris FRS (Greek: Ιωάννης Χατζι Αργύρης; 19 August 1913 – 2 April 2004) was a Greek pioneer of computer applications in science and engineering, among the creators of the finite element method (FEM), and lately Professor at the University of Stuttgart and Director of the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Dynamics in Aerospace Engineering.
Education
He was born in Volos, Greece but the family moved to Athens where he was educated in the Classical Gymnasium.
He studied civil engineering for four years in the National Technical University of Athens and then in the Technical University Munich, receiving his Engineering Diploma in 1936.
Following his escape from Nazi Germany he completed his Doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1942.
Career
His first job was at the Gollnow company in Stettin, where he was involved among other things in high radio transmitter masts. In 1943, he joined the research department of the Royal Aeronautical Society in England. Starting from 1949 he was lecturer in aeronautical engineering at the Imperial College London of the University of London, where he assumed a chair in 1955.
In 1959, Argyris was appointed a professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart (today University of Stuttgart) and director of the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Dynamics in Aerospace Engineering. He created the Aeronautical and Astronautical Campus of the University of Stuttgart as focal point for applications of digital computers and electronics.
Argyris was involved in and developed to a large extent the Finite Element Method along with Ray William Clough and Olgierd Zienkiewicz after an early mathematical pre-working of Richard Courant.
Awards and honours
Argyris was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal in 1971.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1986. His nomination reads:
Personal life
When World War II started Argyris was in Berlin at The Technical University. He was arrested and interned accused of passing research secrets to the Allies. However he was saved from execution by Admiral Canaris (also of Greek descent) who arranged his escape. After swimming the Rhine during an air-raid, he made his way to Switzerland. Here he entered ETH Zurich to complete his Doctorate.
Argyris died in Stuttgart and is buried in the Sankt Jörgens Cemetery in the city of Varberg, Sweden.
His uncle, Constantin Carathéodory, was a Greek mathematician of the Modern Era.
References
1913 births
2004 deaths
Aerospace engineers
Structural engineers
Academics of Imperial College London
Greek academics
20th-century Greek engineers
Engineering educators
Royal Medal winners
National Technical University of Athens alumni
Technical University of Munich alumni
People from Volos
Fellows of the Royal Society
Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal winners
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
Greek expatriates in German |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILS | MILS may refer to:
Multiple Independent Levels of Security, a high-assurance computer security architectural concept
or "Interministerial Mission in the Fight Against Cults", a French government agency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTN%20%28television%20channel%29 | Kawish Television Network (KTN) is the first private Sindhi TV channel in Pakistan. It is the most-watched private Sindhi-language general entertainment television channel worldwide. The channel is part of the Kawish Group.
History
The channel was founded by Muhammad Aslam Kazi in 2002 and started with 6 hours of transmission. It has now grown from a small regional-language channel to the leading Satellite Channel of Pakistan, broadcasting 24 hours a day to areas of South Asia, Middle, and Far East Asia. It also started the first-ever music channel in the Sindhi language, KASHISH TV. After that, in October 2007, KTN News started airing, covering news, current affairs programs, talk shows, documentaries, and reports.
KTN Group
The most popular and most widely distributed Sindhi newspaper, Daily Kawish, is also part of the same group.
Kashish, a music channel, is part of the KTN network.
KTN NEWS, news and current affairs channel, airing 24-hour bulletins and talk shows.
Chaalis Channel, regional entertainment channel, 24-hour movies and dramas.
Platform Productions is a major distributor of television content to KTN and "Kuch Reh Jeewiyal Pall", Alif Laila being some of the best shows that are part of the Platform Productions collection.
Revolution
KTN has also brought a revolution in regional-language channels in Pakistan and has given rise to other Sindhi and regional-language channels in the near past.
It also brought a new wave and genre of shows in the regional and Sindhi television world with a new show titled "Kuch Reh Jeewiyal Pall", which is doing very well and has gathered high audience interest. This show completed 100 episodes on Friday, 4 May 2007, which in itself is a landmark in the Sindhi television industry.
KTN currently has established its mark in the 6-6:30 pm time slot with a daily show, Alif Laila, based on the famous Arabian Nights.
See also
References
Television stations in Pakistan
Television networks in Pakistan
Television stations in Karachi
Television channels and stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Pakistan
Sindhi-language mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDHS%20experiment | CDHS was a neutrino experiment at CERN taking data from 1976 until 1984. The experiment was officially referred to as WA1. CDHS was a collaboration of groups from CERN, Dortmund, Heidelberg, Saclay and later Warsaw. The collaboration was led by Jack Steinberger. The experiment was designed to study deep inelastic neutrino interactions in iron.
Experimental setup
The core of the detector consisted of 19 (later 20) magnetized iron modules. In the spacings between these, drift chambers for track reconstruction were installed. Additionally, plastic scintillators were inserted into the iron. Each iron module therefore served successively as an interaction target, where the neutrinos hit and produced hadron showers, a calorimeter that measured those hadrons' energy and a spectrometer, determining the momenta of produced muons via magnetic deflection.
At the time of its completion in 1976, the overall detector was 20 m long and weighed approximately 1250 tons.
The experiment was located in CERN's West Area, in building 182. The neutrinos (and antineutrinos) were produced by protons from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at energies of around 400 GeV, which were shot onto a beryllium target.
History
The experiment was first proposed in July 1973 by a group led by Jack Steinberger as a two-piece detector. The front should serve as the neutrino target and hadronic shower detector, the following second part should detect the muon traces. It was planned that the four proposing groups from Saclay, Dortmund, Heidelberg and CERN would contribute with complementary expertise and manpower. For example, Saclay was assigned to be in charge of the drift chambers, whereas CERN should handle the iron core magnets. It were also these four groups that gave the experiment its name: CERN Dortmund Heidelberg Saclay (CDHS).
Approximately 30 people should form the final experiment group.
After prolongued discussions with the SPS Committee, that was in charge of approving the proposals and distributing available money, an updated proposal for the new detector was submitted in March 1974. The suggested detector was a modular setup consisting of magnetized iron modules in combination with drift chambers and plastic scintillators. This new proposal was approved by the committee in April 1974. Construction started soon after and was completed in 1976. The experiment's official name was WA1, since it was the first approved experiment at CERN's West Area.
The estimated cost of the detector ranged between 6 and 8 million CHF.
In 1979, an upgrade of the experimental setup was proposed. The main reason for this upgrade was the comparably low resolution of eight of the 19 detector modules. This situation should be improved by inserting twelve new and better modules, resulting in a slightly longer and significantly more accurate machine. The proposal also included the suggestion for a group from Warsaw University, led by Adam Para, to join the project.
Starting with the long |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Scope | ABC Scope was a public affairs program that appeared on the ABC television network from November 11, 1964 to March 2, 1968, hosted by Howard K. Smith, the future anchor of the ABC Evening News. News reporters Louis Rukeyser, Frank Reynolds and John Scali also appeared. The program provided its viewer with an in-depth look at the important political, economic and social issues that the world faced in the mid-to-late 1960s. Although Smith hosted the show, the program provided its audience with one-on-one interviews of important newsmakers, documentaries on various subjects and roundtable discussions between a group of experts.
Many editions dealt with a review of the week in the Vietnam War.
External links
ABC Scope at the Internet Movie Database
References
1964 American television series debuts
1968 American television series endings
1960s American television news shows
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultravision%20Video%20Arcade%20System | The Ultravision Video Arcade System (VAS) was an unreleased gaming console announced at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show. The slogan provided by the company, "It's a COMPUTER, It's a COLOR TV, It's an ARCADE.", was intended to demonstrate that the console combines a game system, a colour TV and a personal computer system.
However, the system never went further than the prototype stage. After the initial announcement no further information was released. It is supposed that the company did not have the appropriate financial basis to release such an advanced multimedia machine.
Design
The system was composed of a standard 10" color television integrated with the game console, and controlled by two 16-direction joysticks with top-mounted buttons and came with a headphone jack. It could run off either AC or DC power, making it portable by allowing it to run off a car battery. The home computer system had 64k of RAM which could be activated with an optional master keyboard.
In addition to supporting its own line of game cartridges, the console was intended to have plugin modules that would have supported the ColecoVision and Atari 2600 game libraries.
References
External links
AtariHQ Entry on the Ultravision
Second-generation video game consoles
Vaporware game consoles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainer%20%28games%29 | Game trainers are programs made to modify memory of a computer game thereby modifying its behavior using addresses and values, in order to allow cheating. It can "freeze" a memory address disallowing the game from lowering or changing the information stored at that memory address (e.g. health meter, ammo counter, etc.) or manipulate the data at the memory addresses specified to suit the needs of the person cheating at the game.
History
In the 1980s and 1990s, trainers were generally integrated straight into the actual game by cracking groups. When the game was first started, the trainer loaded first, asking the player if they wished to cheat and which cheats would like to be enabled. Then the code would proceed to the actual game. These embedded trainers came with intros about the groups releasing the game and the trainer often used to showcase the skills of the cracking group demo coding skills. Some of these groups focus entirely on their Demoscene today. In the cracker group release lists and intros, trained games were marked with one or more plus signs after them, one for each option or cheat in the trainer, for example: "the Mega Krew presents: Ms. Astro Chicken++". Modern trainers append their titles with a single + or writing "plus" and a number, as many have several functions. The number used represents the number of modifications the trainer has available, e.g. 'infinite health' or 'one hit kills'. Another difference is the inclusion of game version or digital download source of game. For example: "Hitman: Absolution Steam +11 Trainer", "F.E.A.R 3 v 1.3 PLUS 9 Trainer" etc.
Modern trainers also come as separately downloaded programs. Instead of modifying the game's programming directly, they modify values stored in memory. In fact, this has become so common that trainers today, by definition, only modify memory; modification to the game's executable is frowned upon and such programs are not considered true trainers but patches instead.
With object-oriented programming the memory objects are often stored dynamically on the heap but modern operating systems use address space layout randomization (ASLR). Therefore, the only way to modify such memory in a reproducible manner is to get information from inside the game process. This requires reverse engineering methods like API hooking of malloc() and free(), code injection or searching for static access pointers. The trainer gets active when the object has been allocated and deactivates itself again when the object is freed.
Modern operating systems also come with position-independent executables (PIE) for security. Together with ASLR, the binaries are loaded to a different virtual memory address each code execution. This makes the reliable modification of static memory values more complex. The load address has to be determined and subtracted from a found memory address to obtain a static memory offset. This offset is often exactly the address of the static variable within the PIE binary. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Palmer%20%28sportscaster%29 | Louis John Puma (November 5, 1935 – October 18, 2019), known professionally as Lou Palmer, was an American sportscaster.
Palmer was an employee at ESPN from 1978 (one year before the network launched on cable television) to 1985. He covered many top sports events and was a SportsCenter anchor and reporter. He was also one of the original studio anchors at WFAN, New York City, the nation's first All Sports Radio Station. Lou lived in Wellington, Florida, a suburb of West Palm Beach, where he ran an Adult Amateur Baseball League (founded 1992). He was a public address announcer for Florida State League games in Jupiter, Florida, and Port St. Lucie, Florida, and worked in several baseball tournaments for NABA (National Adult Baseball Association). He was also the official scorer in spring training games for the St. Louis Cardinals beginning in 1998.
Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Palmer attended Barringer High School and played college baseball at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey and professionally in the farm systems of the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox.
Palmer died on October 18, 2019, at the age of 83.
References
1935 births
2019 deaths
American sports announcers
American reporters and correspondents
Barringer High School alumni
Baseball players from Florida
Baseball players from Newark, New Jersey
Deaths from lung cancer in Florida
Duluth-Superior White Sox players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) commentators
People from Wellington, Florida
Selma Cloverleafs players
Seton Hall Pirates baseball players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Object%20Library | The Sound Object (SndObj) Library is a C++ object-oriented programming library for music and audio development. It is composed of 100+ classes for signal processing, audio, MIDI, and file I/O. The library is available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, IRIX, and other Unix-like systems.
The library development is now a cooperative project hosted by SourceForge. New versions are released twice-yearly and development versions are available via Concurrent Versions System (CVS).
The Library also provides bindings for Python (aka PySndObj), Java and Common Lisp (through CFFI).
References
External links
C++ libraries
Python (programming language) libraries
Free audio software
Audio programming languages
Electronic music software
Audio libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Bandicoot%20%28video%20game%29 | Crash Bandicoot is a 1996 platform video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. The player controls Crash, a genetically enhanced bandicoot created by the mad scientist Doctor Neo Cortex. The story follows Crash as he aims to foil Cortex's plans for world domination and rescue his girlfriend Tawna, a female bandicoot also created by Cortex. The game is played from a third-person perspective in which the camera trails behind Crash, though some levels feature forward-scrolling and side-scrolling perspectives.
After accepting a publishing deal from Universal Interactive Studios, Naughty Dog co-founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin set out on a cross-country road trip from Boston to Los Angeles. During this time, they decided to create a character-based action-platform game from a three-dimensional perspective, having observed the graphical trend in arcade games. Upon meeting, Naughty Dog and Universal Interactive chose to develop the game for the PlayStation due to Sony's lack of a mascot character. The game's main character was tentatively named "Willy the Wombat", and cartoonists Joe Pearson and Charles Zembillas were hired to help create the game's characters and story. Crash Bandicoot was named for his habitual destruction of crates, which were inserted into the game to alleviate emptiness in the levels. Sony agreed to publish the game following a demonstration from Naughty Dog, and the game was unveiled at E3 1996.
Crash Bandicoot was released to generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the game's graphics, presentation, audio, difficulty level and title character, but criticized its linearity and lack of innovation as a platform game. The game went on to sell over 6 million units, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation games and the highest selling ranked on sales in the United States. For the game's Japanese release, the gameplay and aesthetics underwent extensive retooling to make the game more palatable for Japanese audiences, and as a result it achieved commercial success in Japan. Crash Bandicoot became the first installment in an eponymous series of games that would achieve critical and commercial success and establish Naughty Dog's reputation in the video game industry. A remastered version was released as a part of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy in 2017.
Gameplay
Crash Bandicoot is a platform game in which the player controls the titular character Crash, who is tasked with traversing 32 levels to defeat Doctor Neo Cortex and rescue Tawna. The majority of the game takes place from a third-person perspective in which Crash moves into the screen. Certain levels that require him to flee from a rolling boulder reverse this perspective, while other levels are played from a traditional side-scrolling perspective. Crash is capable of moving in all directions; aside from moving left and right, he can move away from or toward the player, and the controls do not ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCCS | CCCS may refer to:
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, a research centre at the University of Birmingham, England
Christ Church Cathedral School
Christian Congregational Church of Samoa
Command, control and coordination system, in military jargon
Consumer Credit Counselling Service, a registered charity in the United Kingdom
California Community Colleges System
Colorado Community College System
Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore
Tricarbon monosulfide when represented as its chemical structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20Deception | Net Deception (Traditional Chinese: 追魂交易) is a Hong Kong television crime drama serial released overseas in January 2004 and broadcast on Hong Kong's Jade network from 17 May to 9 June 2006.
Synopsis
The winner of the game almost loses his soul!
What can put him back on the path to self-discovery?
Tong Ka-Ming (Jack Wu) is a police cadet who got expelled for hacking into the school system to change his friend's grade. In order to join the police force again, Chong Chin-Pang (Eddie Kwan) made an offer to Ka-Ming, to be an undercover cop. His duty was to get close to Yiu Sing-Tin (Wong Hei) and find his criminal activities. Ka-Ming has no choice but to accept.
Chin Pang's superior had told him to close this case, but he refused because he has some personal differences with Sing-Tin. Yiu Sing-Tin is a successful game developer who opened an Internet cafe to hide his criminal identity which leads Ka-Ming a chance to join his team with his exceptional computer skills. Sing-Tin gives a lot of trust to Ka-Ming, however Ka-Ming makes one wrong move and Sing-Tin finds out his undercover identity...
Cast
External links
TVB.com Net Deception - Official Website
TVB dramas
2006 Hong Kong television series debuts
2006 Hong Kong television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20America | Football America is a book and film series that was released by the National Football League in 1992. It was also the name of a follow-up series that aired on NFL Network from 2003 to 2005 on a regular basis.
The books and TV shows were feature stories about various players and teams. Among the stories:
A 65-year-old semipro football player in Agoura Hills, California, who beat opponents a fraction of his age.
Dot Easterwood Murphy, wide receivers coach at Hinds Community College in Raymond MS.
The football rivalry between members of the New York City fire and police departments.
An Arab-American football star at Azusa Pacific University who uses football to overcome increasing hostility against his people following "9/11."
Players at Linfield College in Oregon caught in the crossfire of the Pearl Harbor attack.
A single-wing offense run by a small college and a high school.
"Turkey Bowl" flag football games in Massachusetts and North Carolina.
A "Turkey Bowl" full contact football game set in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
The Gallaudet College team.
Turner Network Television, which then held partial rights to NFL games, telecast the original film in 1992. The 2003-05 series was hosted by veteran sportscaster Charley Steiner. It aired on Sunday and Monday nights, at the same time ESPN and ABC presented their prime time games.
Football America was "cancelled" by NFL Network in 2006, when the network revamped its lineup; there is now more emphasis on live programs and major projects like America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions. But the show still appears very occasionally; the show aired at the same time the Thanksgiving Day games were played in 2006.
In 2014, Football America returned as a one-hour special that aired during Fox's coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII. The revamped special focused on the NFL's "Together We Make Football" campaign. Another edition of the special aired during NBC's coverage of Super Bowl XLIX the following year.
NFL Network original programming
2003 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202007 | The 49th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 6 May 2007 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. The ceremony was hosted by Adam Hills, Dave Hughes and Fifi Box, while Hamish Blake and Andy Lee were the backstage hosts. Jules Lund, Livinia Nixon and Jackie O hosted the Red Carpet Arrivals. Special guests included Michael Weatherly, Rachel Griffiths, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Ioan Gruffud.
Winners and nominees
In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Avril Lavigne
Damien Leith
James Morrison
Hall of Fame
Steve Irwin became the 24th induction into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame posthumously.
References
External links
2007
2007 television awards
2007 in Australian television
2007 awards in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Theatrical%20Films | CBS Theatrical Films, also as CBS Theatrical Films Group, was the film production branch of the U.S. television network, CBS, which was active from 1979 to 1985.
CBS was also a partner in TriStar Pictures, which started as a joint venture with Columbia Pictures (owned then by The Coca-Cola Company), and Time, Inc.'s HBO. CBS was an owner in TriStar from the start in 1982 to 1985.
History
CBS began its theatrical films operation in 1979, headed by Donald March, and turned the operation into the separate CBS Theatrical Films division on December 2, 1980. In March 1980, the unit was promoted to group level, same as the broadcast and records groups, as CBS Theatrical Films Group with Michael Levy as group president reporting directly to CBS president Thomas H. Wyman. Before 1985, Self was president of production. None of its releases were commercial successes.
On December 17, 1984, it was merged with the CBS Worldwide Enterprises branch to form CBS Productions (unrelated to the later production company of the same name). In 1985, CBS Productions decided to wind down their operations, which was fully closed in November 1985.
Closure
Several factors contributed to the closure of CBS Theatrical Films. As a so-called boutique, it was disadvantaged because it was usually only offered left over films after the major studios had selected the more likely commercial successes. Television movies did better in the ratings than theater films already released via cable and video. With additional startup boutiques, the market was overcrowded causing box office strain at the same time movie production costs doubled to $10 million with marketing matching that level.
Another factor was that as a boutique, CBS Theatrical Films did not have a distribution system, so had to release its films through major studios, which sometimes resulted in disadvantageous release dates. CBS announced CBS Theatrical Films's closure in November 1985. After the closure, CBS Productions' assets were sold to international film backer J&M Film Sales, which included all the foreign licensing contracts that were previously handled by the studio, and four planned CBS titles were sold to J&M Film Sales on May 28, 1986. The Challenge and their final production The Lightship were released through Embassy Pictures and Castle Hill Productions respectively. Today, Paramount Pictures (through former parent company Viacom's acquisition of CBS in 1999) owns the rights to the library, with certain films licensed to Kino Lorber.
Films
References
CBS Television Network
Film production companies of the United States
Entertainment companies established in 1979
American companies disestablished in 1985
American companies established in 1979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehouse%20%28TV%20series%29 | Firehouse is an American drama/adventure series that aired on ABC in early 1974. Somewhat derivative of Emergency! (a hit on rival network NBC at the time) and the recent best-selling book Report From Engine Co. 82 by FDNY fireman Dennis Smith, the series was set in Los Angeles at a small inner-city fire station. The five-man crew of Engine Company 23 was led by Captain Spike Ryerson, played by James Drury, fresh from his starring role of nine years on the western series The Virginian.
Synopsis
The series follows a 1973 ABC Movie of the Week of the same name, although veteran character actor Richard Jaeckel was the only notable cast member to appear in both the TV-movie and the series.
It aired back-to-back with Chopper One, and ran only thirteen episodes.
Cast
James Drury as Capt. Spike Ryerson
Richard Jaeckel as Hank Myers
Michael Delano as Sonny Caputo
Episodes
External links
Classic TV Archive: Firehouse
1974 American television series debuts
1974 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1970s American drama television series
American adventure television series
Television series by Metromedia
Television series by Spelling Television
Television series by CBS Studios
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Television series about firefighting
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20from%20St.%20Nicholas%20Arena | Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena was an American sports program originally broadcast on NBC from 1946 to 1948, and later on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from 1954 to 1956.
Broadcast history
Before having their own program, boxing matches from St. Nicholas Arena were broadcast as part of the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports.
NBC
NBC broadcast Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena twice a week—at 9:30 p.m. on Mondays and at 10 p.m. on Tuesdays. The series ended on May 9, 1949, as a result of budgetary problems at the sponsoring Gillette Company.
DuMont
The DuMont version was hosted by Chris Schenkel; Schenkel took over for Dennis James, who had hosted most of DuMont's boxing telecasts prior to 1954.
This regularly scheduled program, which aired boxing matches from St. Nicholas Arena in New York City on Monday nights, is notable for being the final program to air on DuMont. The last network-aired program was broadcast on August 6, 1956, though a few remaining programs were seen locally on New York's WABD afterward.
With limited finances, DuMont aired many sports programs throughout its history. Boxing, wrestling, basketball, and football were always network mainstays, even during prime time, as they were cheaper than most scripted programs (this in an era before sports rights fees accelerated to their modern levels) and filled large programming blocks that would otherwise have gone unfilled. Most of DuMont's regular series were cancelled on April 1, 1955, and the last non-sports program, the panel show What's the Story, left the airwaves on September 23, 1955, leaving only a few cheaply produced sports programs on the schedule.
However, by August 1956, even DuMont's sports programs, including Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena, were axed.
Episode status
About 60 episodes of the DuMont version, including the final program on August 6, 1956, survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. However, some of these episodes are from the non-network version which continued to run on WABD after the network closed (these are also notable due to the rarity of kinescopes of local programming aired on United States television stations during the 1950s).
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1954-55 United States network television schedule
1955-56 United States network television schedule
Boxing From Jamaica Arena (July 1940-May 1942, 1946-1949)
Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
Wrestling From Marigold (September 1949 – 1955)
Boxing From Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954)
Saturday Night at the Garden (1950-1951)
HBO Boxing (1973-2018)
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WestGrid | WestGrid is a government-funded infrastructure program started in 2003, mainly in Western Canada, that provides institutional research faculty and students access to high performance computing and distributed data storage, using a combination of grid, networking, and collaboration tools. WestGrid is one of four partners within the umbrella organization, Compute Canada.
Principal participants
WestGrid has 14 partner institutions across four provinces - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The participating institutions include:
Simon Fraser University
University of British Columbia
University of Victoria
University of Northern British Columbia
The Banff Centre
University of Alberta
University of Calgary
University of Lethbridge
Athabasca University
University of Saskatchewan
University of Regina
University of Manitoba
University of Winnipeg
Brandon University
WestGrid also works in partnership with each province's Optical Regional Advanced Network. WestGrid's network partners include:
BCNET
Cybera
SRnet
MRnet
CANARIE
References
External links
Official website
Grid computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%20Hull%20Hockey%20%2795 | Brett Hull Hockey '95 is an ice hockey simulation video game released in January 1995 for multiple platforms; including the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, and personal computers running DOS.
Summary
The game was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Accolade. It is the sequel to the original Brett Hull Hockey. The gameplay options include Exhibition, Half Season, Full Season, Play-offs and All-Star. Al Michaels called the play-by-play for every game (including the exhibition and all-star games).
More than 600 authentic hockey players are used for this simulation game. Athletes are rated in skills related to skating, offense, defense, and goaltending skills. The "coach mode" allows players to customize the team in order to meet their gaming needs. There is an NHLPA license in the game but no NHL license; so that teams are only mentioned by city name. The Super NES version only has a password save method instead of a battery backup method due to memory limitations.
Reception
Reviewing the Super NES version, GamePro praised the coaching feature and assessed that Brett Hull Hockey '95, while not as good a game as NHL Hockey '95, has an action-driven style of gameplay which might be more appealing to beginning players and action fans. Next Generation reviewed the SNES version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Sure, it's hockey, but Brett Hull Hockey '95 still stands squarely in the minors."
A different GamePro critic gave the Genesis version a negative review, citing grainy voice, "slow game play and slower control", and the game's emphasis on individual plays rather than teamwork. Next Generation reviewed the Genesis version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "Brett Hull Hockey '95 is one more feeble attempt at capturing the brutal action of NHL Hockey."
Reviewing the computer release of Brett Hull Hockey '95, Computer Game Review offered a largely negative opinion. The magazine's Ted Chapman concluded, "Boooooorrrriiiinnnnng!"
References
1995 video games
Accolade (company) games
Brett Hull video games
DOS games
Ice hockey video games
Video games set in the United States
Video games set in Canada
Video games developed in Canada
North America-exclusive video games
Radical Entertainment games
Sega Genesis games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games based on real people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Soccer%20Report | Fox Soccer Report was Fox Soccer's flagship studio program. The show was produced by Fox Sports World Canada, a Canadian international sports network owned by Shaw Media (parent of Global Television Network), from CKND-TV's studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The show, formerly called Fox Sports World Report and Global SportsLink, aired nightly on Fox Soccer in the United States and EuroWorld Sport (Canada) at 10 p.m. Eastern Time (or after a live prime-time match), with numerous re-airs, usually at 1 a.m. Eastern. The show also aired on Fox Soccer Plus nightly at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.
With the shutdown of Fox Sports World in April 2012, Fox Soccer Report continued to be produced until August 16, 2012, when it was replaced by Fox Soccer News, a new soccer news program produced by Sportsnet out of Toronto, the following day.
Anchors
The program featured multiple sportscasters that alternated on different days of the week. Its final lineup was anchored by Michelle Lissel, Eoin O'Callaghan and Asa Rehman. Former Scottish amateur soccer player Bobby McMahon was featured on Mondays and Fridays, providing analysis of the weekend's matches.
Former anchors
Mitch Peacock
Carlos Machado
Nabil Karim
Terri Leigh
Lara Baldesarra
Jeremy St. Louis
Derek Taylor
Julie Stewart-Binks
External links
Official Site
References
Fox Sports original programming
Association football television series
2000s Canadian sports television series
2010s Canadian sports television series
Soccer on United States television
Soccer on Canadian television
Fox Soccer original programming
Television shows filmed in Winnipeg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JakTV | Jak TV is an Indonesian capital regional free-to-air television channel broadcasting from the Jabodetabek area. It owned by Mahaka Media and launched in 31 October 2004.
JakTV's programming is focused towards news, air magazines and soft news. As of August 2018, JakTV transforms its broadcasting into 24 hours airtime, and added a new slogan "Dari Jakarta Untuk Indonesia" (From Jakarta to Indonesia).
History
Jak TV was originally a joint venture between Mahaka Media, Artha Graha Network and Jawa Pos Group. In 2005, City TV Network, a joint effort of Indonesian local television, coordinated by Jak TV began.
On 30 October 2010, Jak TV held a 5K Fun Walk in the framework of the Jak TV 5th anniversary celebration which included the Jakartaku Peace Declaration, attended by 4000 participants.
The Jak TV 6th anniversary was attended by 6326 participants on 30 October 2011.
In 2016, Jak TV broadcast Serie A matches for two seasons (2016–17 and 2017–18).
In 2017, Jak TV also covers both Inter Milan's International Champions Cup Singapore matches.
In 2019, Jak TV broadcast selected live and most delayed Premier League matches for three seasons (2019-20 until 2021-22), plus highlights. Jak TV also broadcast four live games (both semi finals and both gold-bronze finals) of the 2019 FIBA World Cup in-simulcast with the national public broadcaster TVRI.
Recognition
Award from UNICEF and WHO as a station that promoted the dangers of polio in Indonesia and how to handle it regularly (16 November 2005).
MURI record for Kentongan Peace (2011)
Adikarya Wisata award from the DKI Jakarta Disparbud Department as the best local station for tourism and culture of DKI Jakarta (4 December 2012).
References
External links
Official Site
Television stations in Indonesia
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Indonesia
Mass media in Jakarta
Mahaka X |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporaci%C3%B3n%20Estatal%20de%20Radio%20y%20Televisi%C3%B3n | Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión (CERTV, State Radio and Television Corporation) is a radio and television network operating from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. It is a public television channel operated and owned by the Dominican government. Following the frequency unification of 1996, CERTV has been aired throughout the country on channel 4 (canal 4). Previously, channel 4 was broadcast in Santo Domingo and the Southern zone, channel 5 in the Northern region and channel 12 in the Southwest.
History
The channel was first aired on August 1, 1952 with the name La Voz Dominicana. This was the first television transmitter of its kind in the country and the fifth in Latin America, after Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and Argentina. The original owner was José Arismendy Trujillo (Petán), brother of the notorious dictator Rafael Trujillo (d. 1961). It was a combination of radio and television that transmitted live programming for six hours. Romance Campesino was one of the first television and radio series that aired from the station. Besides providing entertainment and information, this media outlet was also used by the government to communicate favorable propaganda for the Trujillo regime.
During the 1970s, the channel was officially renamed Radio Televisión Dominicana (RTVD), a title which persisted for several decades. On July 29, 2003 its name was changed once again to Corporación Estatal de Radio y Televisión (CERTV) by means of a national decree which transformed it into a public company sustained and operated by the Dominican Government.
CERTV: Definition and Functions
According to Article 4 of the law which created it (134-03), CERTV has a general objective of managing and running public telecommunication for the transport and diffusion of television signals in VHF (Very high frequency) and UHF (Ultra high frequency) and television systems for coaxial cable, equivalent to public broadcasting networks for medium and short wave and frequency modulated for the transmission and broadcasting of radio and TV programming, as well as the transmission and broadcasting of these programs by other media types that exists or could exist in the future.
List of Programs seen in this channel
Centro Noticias
Centro Deportes
Caribe Show
El Tapón de las 12
TV Revista
El Kan del 4
Domingos en Grande
El Reto Semana - Primera Etapa
El Club de Isha - Primera Etapa
El Show del Mediodía - Primera Etapa
El Gordo de la Semana - Primera Etapa
Buen Provecho
Santo Domingo Invita
En Acción con Manuel y Hermes
El humor nunca pasa
Notes
Television stations in the Dominican Republic
Mass media companies established in 1952
Television channels and stations established in 1952
1952 establishments in the Dominican Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20City%2C%20Gurgaon | DLF Cyber City is a Commercial Office Space in Gurugram, Haryana, India, which was opened in 2003. The area is home to several top IT and Fortune 500 company offices. The area has been termed a "futuristic commercial hub" and is considered one of the largest hubs of IT activity in Delhi NCR. Cyber City lies near Udyog Vihar, which is a conventional industrial area on the opposite side of NH-48.
Cyber Hub is a large shopping and eating area with a number of leading restaurants and shops, which caters primarily to the people working in DLF Cyber City.
Transport
In 2013, Rapid Metro was introduced to Cyber City, connecting it with Delhi Metro. Six operational stations are within the Cyber City. The National Highway 48 (NH-48) runs through Cyber City and a project to construct a 16-lane expressway is also in progress. A flyover between Cyber City and MG Road was opened in 2015 to reduce traffic congestion. The Indira Gandhi International Airport is located close to the Cyber City. Delhi Metro's Phase 4 includes the extension of the Yellow Line from its current Southern terminus at Huda City Centre(now known as Millennium City Centre) further south of Cyber City. This will ensure another option for people staying in the heart of Delhi at Rajiv Chowk to directly access this district ensuring better connectivity to the suburban business centres from Central Delhi.
Entertainment
Cyber City is surrounded by 26 shopping malls, seven golf courses and several luxury shops selling productions from international brands such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Cyber hub is situated in the cyber city and consists of various clothing brands like Marks and Spencer, Chumbak, UNIQLO and a large bookshop called "The crossword". Not only clothing and stationary but the cyber hub complex also consists of a KIA MOTORS Dealership. It is a hub for food lovers and it has big food outlets like Dominos, The big chill, Nando's, Haldirams etc.
Gateway Tower
Gateway Tower is a tall building at the entrance of the Cyber City that houses of the headquarters of DLF (company).
Cyber Green Building
Cyber Green building is an official and commercial building located in Cyber City.
Cyber-Hub
Cyber Hub is a massive courtyard within Cyber City and is considered as a hub of food and beverages in Gurgaon. The DLF Cyber hub which was opened in 2013, has an area of about , with cafes, restaurants, pubs, a standup comedy venue, The people & co., and a Broadway style theatre. There is an open-air amphitheater that plays host to weekend cultural & art shows and rock concerts. Cyber Hub being the favourite foodie destination for people living in the NCR region is surrounded by premium housing complexes near cyber hub also a golf course in close vicinity.
Gallery
See also
Electronic City in Bengaluru
HITEC City in Hyderabad
Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai
Hinjawadi in Pune
Genome Valley
Whitefield, Bangalore
New Town, Kolkata
Bidhannagar, Kolkata
Bengal Silicon Valley Tech Hub
List of tech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nios | Nios or NIOS may refer to:
Places
Ios or Nios, a Greek island
Computing
Network I/O System, Digital Research's NIOS component in CP/NET in the 1980s
NetWare I/O Subsystem, Novell's NIOS component in the 32-bit network clients in the mid-1990s
Nios embedded processor, Altera 16-bit embedded processor
Nios II, Altera 32-bit embedded processor
Other uses
National Institute of Open Schooling, the board of education in India
Hyundai Grand i10 Nios, a 2019–present Korean-Indian city car
See also
NetBIOS
Lake Nyos, a crater lake in Cameroon
NIO (disambiguation), for the singular of NIOs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine%20similarity | In data analysis, cosine similarity is a measure of similarity between two non-zero vectors defined in an inner product space. Cosine similarity is the cosine of the angle between the vectors; that is, it is the dot product of the vectors divided by the product of their lengths. It follows that the cosine similarity does not depend on the magnitudes of the vectors, but only on their angle. The cosine similarity always belongs to the interval For example, two proportional vectors have a cosine similarity of 1, two orthogonal vectors have a similarity of 0, and two opposite vectors have a similarity of -1. In some contexts, the component values of the vectors cannot be negative, in which case the cosine similarity is bounded in .
For example, in information retrieval and text mining, each word is assigned a different coordinate and a document is represented by the vector of the numbers of occurrences of each word in the document. Cosine similarity then gives a useful measure of how similar two documents are likely to be, in terms of their subject matter, and independently of the length of the documents.
The technique is also used to measure cohesion within clusters in the field of data mining.
One advantage of cosine similarity is its low complexity, especially for sparse vectors: only the non-zero coordinates need to be considered.
Other names for cosine similarity include Orchini similarity and Tucker coefficient of congruence; the Otsuka–Ochiai similarity (see below) is cosine similarity applied to binary data.
Definition
The cosine of two non-zero vectors can be derived by using the Euclidean dot product formula:
Given two n-dimensional vectors of attributes, A and B, the cosine similarity, , is represented using a dot product and magnitude as
where and are the th components of vectors and , respectively.
The resulting similarity ranges from -1 meaning exactly opposite, to 1 meaning exactly the same, with 0 indicating orthogonality or decorrelation, while in-between values indicate intermediate similarity or dissimilarity.
For text matching, the attribute vectors A and B are usually the term frequency vectors of the documents. Cosine similarity can be seen as a method of normalizing document length during comparison. In the case of information retrieval, the cosine similarity of two documents will range from , since the term frequencies cannot be negative. This remains true when using TF-IDF weights. The angle between two term frequency vectors cannot be greater than 90°.
If the attribute vectors are normalized by subtracting the vector means (e.g., ), the measure is called the centered cosine similarity and is equivalent to the Pearson correlation coefficient. For an example of centering,
Cosine distance
The term cosine distance is commonly used for the complement of cosine similarity in positive space, that is
It is important to note that the cosine distance is not a true distance metric as it does not exhibit the triang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYFV | KYFV (107.1 FM) is a non-commercial radio station located in Armijo, New Mexico, broadcasting to the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area. It is owned by and affiliated with the Bible Broadcasting Network featuring bible teachings and traditional hymns.
History
This station signed on in April 1988 as KMYI with an adult contemporary format branded as "My 107". It was owned by Matteucci Broadcasting. By January 1991, the format was changed to adult standards simulcast from sister station KDEF AM 1150. In May 1991, KMYI and KDEF were sold to Texas businessman George Chapman. By August, KDEF would switch to a sports talk format and 107.1 would then become KUCU and would switch to a country music format on September 15. By August 1992, the two stations had entered into a leased management agreement and purchase option with Clairmor Broadcasting, which owned country formatted KOLT-FM 105.9. KUCU would then shift its format to classic country. This also led to several layoffs at the stations in a "delayed consolidation move". On Christmas Eve 1992, KUCU began stunting with a loop of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin, emulating a stunt pulled the previous year by KLSK 104.1 when it switched from new age music to classic rock. On Christmas Day, it would launch a new age music format with a planned callsign change to KNUA. However, by New Year's Eve, the station had gone dark. Adding to the confusion, the station's phone lines had been disconnected and the studios vacated. All staff were laid off with KDEF going to satellite programming full-time and the general manager had left to manage two stations in North Carolina. It was stated that the transmitter had blown up. The FCC had immediately granted a new construction permit to rebuild the station. KUCU would return to the air in the summer of 1993 simulcasting the sports talk format from KDEF until it would be sold. In August 1994, Calvary of Albuquerque would purchase KUCU and KDEF for $800,000. Calvary would then spin off KDEF the following year to Ramh Corp. for $125,000. Following consummation in December 1994, the station became KNKT, airing religious programming. KNKT aired religious music and talk programming branded as "The Connection" for 27 years.
On March 25, 2021, Calvary Albuquerque, Inc. sold KNKT for $1.4 million to Bible Broadcasting Network. BBN has since converted the station to a non-commercial license. With the consummation of the sale on May 27, 2021, the call letters were changed to KYFV, while Calvary moved the KNKT call letters to 90.7 Cannon AFB, a satellite of KLYT. On May 28, 2021, following consummation, the station went silent while technical changes could be made according to the KNKT webpage. It returned to air on June 19. Much of the talk and bible teaching programs that aired on KNKT were moved over to KLYT 88.3, which changed its format from Christian Contemporary music and rebranded as "The Light" on May 31, 2021.
Former logo
References
External links
Website
Talk radi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus%20Networks | Pegasus Networks was the first public Internet service provider in Australia, commencing in June 1989 with local access, and moving to nationwide access from 14 September 1989. It acted as a "gateway" to emerging online networks working in the fields of environment, labor, peace, women's and the human rights movement. It offered Australia-wide access via X25 networks and initially used UUCP and TCP/IP connections to the United States to exchange mail and newsgroup content, initially via direct dialup to the United States, and later via ACSNet.
Pegasus' foundation CEO was Ian Peter. Pegasus Networks offered public dialup access to the Internet in Australia. The launch video features early use of mobile phones for internet access and solar powered computer facilities. Pegasus operated initially from Byron Bay, New South Wales, and later from Brisbane, Queensland.
Pegasus Networks was active in establishing connectivity to countries in South East Asia and Indo-China with partners such as Pactok, Sarawak Access and the Email Center in the Philippines.
Australian projects included the national sub-networks CouncilNet, ArtsNet and International Education and Resource Network (iEARN). APC, trading as Community Communications Online (c2o) of Australia, founded in 1997, was founded "to continue support for progressive networking activities in the Australasia region after the closure of Pegasus Networks." Pegasus was a founding member of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
References
Companies established in 1989
Defunct telecommunications companies of Australia
Internet service providers of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Minimum%20Data%20Set%20for%20Social%20Care | The National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) gathers information about the social care workforce to help employers with workforce planning in England. It also provides sector wide workforce intelligence to support strategic planning in the wider social care sector. In challenging economic times, shifting government policy and changing expectations of those needing care and support are altering the way the social care sector operates. The aim of the NMDS-SC is to provide workforce intelligence relied upon by government, strategic bodies, employers and individuals to make decisions that will improve outcomes for people who use services.
The NMDS-SC was developed from 2003 to 2005 by Dr Francis Ward (King's College London) who conceived the idea and managed it to fruition as Head of Skills Research & Intelligence at Skills for Care working in partnership with the Department of Health, the Department for Education & Skills (now the Department for Children, Schools and Families), the General Social Care Council (GSCC), the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), National Health Service (NHS) National Workforce Projects, the Local Government Association (LGA), the Learning & Skills Council (LSC) and other key stakeholders.
National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) was replaced by the Adult Social Care (ASC) Workforce Data Set in August 2019.
Function
The National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) is a web-based system that gathers information about the adult social care workforce. Employers from all areas of the sector including the independent and statutory sector can register and update their information. The NMDS-SC is collected online.
Skills for Care and government bodies use this anonymised information about the workforce to inform government policy and funding. The NMDS-SC also helps local authorities to develop a greater knowledge of the workforce and service providers in local areas.
Organisations can input into NMDS-SC and update their organisational and staff details as frequently as they wish. The more up to date the information is within the system, the more accurate and timely the reports produced by the system can be.
Completion of the NMDS-SC is not mandatory and all data submitted is done voluntarily by employers.
See also
Minimum Data Set (MDS), US
National minimum dataset, in health informatics
Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS), US
References
Social care in England
Databases in England
2005 establishments in England
Government databases in the United Kingdom
2005 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Headroom%3A%2020%20Minutes%20into%20the%20Future | Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future is a 1985 cyberpunk television film created by British company Chrysalis Visual Programming Ltd. for Channel 4. Max Headroom was created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton, while the TV movie story was developed by Stone and screenwriter Steve Roberts. The television film was created to provide a backstory and origin for the character Max before he started appearing regularly as host and veejay of a new music video programme on Channel 4, The Max Headroom Show.
The story depicts a near-future where corrupt corporations control much of the world and manipulate the public for the sake of ratings and wealth. Events lead crusading journalist Edison Carter to crash a motorcycle and suffer head trauma from a parking lot safety sign reading "MAX. HEADROOM: 2.3 M" (an overhead clearance of 2.3 metres). While unconscious, Carter's mind and memories are used as the basis for a new artificial intelligence that adopts the name Max Headroom. While Carter recovers and exposes corporate corruption, his AI twin Max becomes popular as a witty TV host who criticizes society and media. Both Edison Carter and Max Headroom are portrayed by actor Matt Frewer.
On 4 April 1985, Channel 4 transmitted the TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future, starring Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, Paul Spurrier, Nickolas Grace, and W. Morgan Sheppard. Two days later, Max began appearing regularly as the veejay of The Max Headroom Show. HBO (which owned another cable television provider Cinemax) provided some of the original funding and the series later ran on Cinemax for American audiences. Following its cancellation, American network ABC commissioned Chrysalis to produce a new dramatic television series based on the characters, concepts, and world established in the film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. The new programme, entitled simply Max Headroom, featured Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays reprising their original roles. Each episode began with the phrase "20 Minutes into the Future."
Plot
Edison Carter (Matt Frewer) is a headstrong television reporter determined to uncover corruption even if his employer Network 23 is involved. Carter is investigating an apartment explosion when he is pulled from the story by the television station management. Carter's new producer Theora Jones (Amanda Pays) agrees to help him investigate further despite pressure from upper management. The two discover Network 23 is covering up the fact that its new subliminal advertising (called "blipverts") can be fatal to certain viewers, even causing them to explode.
Carter recovers evidence of the cover-up at Network 23 headquarters but is discovered on security camera by Bryce Lynch (Paul Spurrier), an amoral teenage computer genius who created blipverts and answers only to Network 23's chief executive Mr. Grossman. As Carter attempts to flee from Mr. Breughel and Mr. Mahler two sociopathic thugs via the building's parking garage on a moto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied%20Telesis | is a network infrastructuretelecommunications company, formerly Allied Telesyn. The company is Headquartered in Japan, and has other branches in San Jose, California. The company was Founded in 1987, as a global provider of secure Ethernet & IP access solutions along with deployment of IP triple play networks over copper and fiber access infrastructure.
Company history
March 1987, System Plus Co. is established with 1 million Yen capital stock.
September, 1987 The company is renamed Allied Telesis K.K.
April 1990, Capital stock is increased to 99 million Yen.
February 1991, Allied Telesyn Intl. (Asia) Pte., Ltd. is established in Singapore.
June 1995, Allied Telesyn Intl. Pty Ltd. is established in Australia.
November 1995, Malaysia Sales Office opens.
June 1997, Capital stock is increased to 734 million Yen.
July 1997, Taiwan Representative Office is launched.
May 1999, Acquires a networking division from Teltrend Ltd., US.
May 1999, Centrecom Systems Ltd. is established in UK.
June 2000, Allied Telesyn Europe Service S.r.l. is established in Italy.
June 2000, Allied Telesyn Korea Co., Ltd. is established in the Republic of Korea.
July 2000, Allied Telesis K.K. is listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
October 2000, Allied Telesyn Labs New Zealand Ltd., an R&D center, is established in Christchurch, New Zealand.
March 2001, Allied Telesyn Philippines Inc. is established in the Philippines as a software development base.
March 2001, Allied Telesyn International m.b.H is established in Austria.
September 2001, Allied Telesis (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. is established in China.
October 2001, Allied Telesyn Networks Inc., an R&D center, is established in North Carolina, US.
January 2002, Allied Telesis International SA is established in Switzerland.
February 2002, Allied Telesyn International S.L.U. is established in Spain.
July 2004, Allied Telesis K.K. is renamed Allied Telesis Holdings K.K.
March 2005, Allied Telesis K.K. acquires ROOT Inc, a wireless networking company.
May 2005, Allied Telesis Capital Corp is established in Washington state, US.
December 2006, Allied Telesis Capital Corp opens branch on Yokota Air Base, Japan.
June 2007, Allied Telesis launches Switchblade x908 Advanced Layer 3 High-capacity stackable chassis switch.
July 2007, Allied Telesis Yokota AFB Branch rolls out IPTV as part of its IVVD contract with AAFES to the Yokota Community.
Summer 2008, Allied Telesis Yokota AFB Branch adds 23 channels to its video lineup.
September 2008, Allied Telesis Yokota AFB Branch upgrades to a tier one voice carrier for telephony calls to the states.
November 2008, Allied Telesis launches "Green" Eco-friendly networking products to the market.
October 2012, Allied Telesis launches SwitchBlade x8112 Advanced Layer 3 twelve-slot chassis switch.
Aprril 2014, Allied Telesis launches SBx81CFC960 controller card with terabit fabric for the SwitchBlade x8112.
July 2014, Allied Telesis launches x310 series stackable edge switches.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushmore%20Reviews | The Rushmore Reviews is a service provided by IHS Markit that collects, analyzes and publishes offset well data for participating operators in the petroleum industry. The content of their extensive, global database is exclusively available to Review participants, who are then able to use the shared data to benchmark their own performance against others in the industry.
History
The Reviews began in 1993 when a group of oil operators, led by BP, outsourced the production of the data collection and analysis project they had been conducting since 1988 to the Rushmore Reviews. This was a joint venture between two independent companies, Rushmore Associates Ltd (founded by Peter and Helen Rushmore) and the Sigma Consultancy (founded by Tim Stapenhurst and wife Pat). They shared offices and provided data to participants through a web-based portal. The Sigma Consultancy was purchased from the Stapenhursts on 30 April 2010, by Peter and Helen Rushmore, leaving the Rushmores the sole owners of the Rushmore Reviews.
Participants meet annually in Aberdeen, Scotland to discuss and agree any changes to the data being shared and the rules under which it is shared. The 2013 annual meetings, hosted by both Helen and Peter Rushmore, marked 25 years of the Reviews, and 20 years since the outsourcing to Rushmore Reviews.
Growth of the Reviews
Initially in 1989 the Reviews consisted of twelve operators, who agreed a process for sharing offset drilling data for the first time. A standard set of metrics and definitions were employed by all twelve, and quality control was added to ensure the data was sufficiently reliable to be of real use to them. This became known as the Drilling Performance Review (DPR).
Until 1993 the DPR was managed by the Operators themselves. However this was not a core activity for them and it was agreed that the DPR would be outsourced to Rushmore Reviews, who worked to increase the scope of the Reviews, as requested by the existing participants. Eventually the DPR grew to hold data for more than 50,000 wells.
The participants meet annually in Aberdeen to consider the Reviews and discuss/agree upon any revisions they require for the following year, ensuring that the Reviews continue to evolve and grow. 1994 saw the establishment of the Completions Performance Review (CPR), now containing information and schematics on the completion of over 12,000 offset wells in over 60 countries. Following an increasing number of well abandonments, demand grew among participants for the Abandonment Performance Review (APR) which began in 2008. The APR contains data for over 300 permanently abandoned wells, mainly situated in Europe.
In 2011 the Interventions Performance Review (IPR) was initiated after new products and services available in the industry increased the productivity of interventions for some participants of other Reviews, yet there was no performance benchmarking available in this area.
The Shale Performance Review (SPR), starting in 2012 co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Computer%20Access%20Network | Japan Computer Access Network (JCA-NET) is a Tokyo-based group aligned with the progressivism political philosophy that aims at empowering citizen's activities through the Internet.
Description
JCA-NET was founded in April 1997 as a member of the Association for Progressive Communications.
An earlier group called Japan Computer Access was founded in 1993 in response to the 1990–1991 Gulf War.
JCA-NET provides networking tools for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and social movements, working closely with the Asialink, which is an Asia-wide NGO information and e-mail networks.
It calls itself an "Internet service provider for development by people". This internet service was created for people wishing to publicise their activities, and know of other people's movements and activities across the globe. JCA-NET's main objective is to play the role of a "non-profit Internet provider that internationally links the information released by people and NGOs." It works to take technologies like electronic conference rooms, mailing lists and home pages to the alternate, development and campaign sectors.
JCA-NET reported about a thousand subscribers on its mailing list in 2006.
Japan Computer Access For Empowerment (JCAFE) was also founded in 1993. JCAFE provides Internet technology and skills to support NGOs.
Hamada 'Taratta' Tadahisa was chairman of JCAFE in 2006 when it joined the Association for Progressive Communications.
At the time he reported 100 members, and support for 400 NGOs in Japan.
References
External links
Japan Computer Access Network (Japanese language)
Internet access organizations
Internet service providers of Japan
Political organizations based in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20Progressive%20Network%20Center | Korean Progressive Network Center (), also known as Jinbonet () is a nine-year-old organization in Seoul, South Korea. Jinbonet is a network that provides ICT services (web hosting, mailing list, webmail) to that country's progressive movement, civil society and workers unions.
Best internet infrastructure, concern over rights
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has been one of the biggest group they have been hosting to. In a country which has one of the best internet infrastructures—technically speaking—in the world, concern over the rights of the citizen in cyberspace are strong, and Jinbonet helps focus on some of these issues.
After 1997 media conference
Kim Jeong-woo, a.k.a. PatchA is Jinbonet's ICT policy coordinator. This network was formed in the aftermath of a 1997 international labour media conference in Seoul, where participants focused on the importance of independent network for progressive communication in South Korea.
‘Progressive’
In 1998, Jinbonet was originally launched. ‘Jinbo’ means progressive in the local Korean language. It at present has eight full-time activists, apart from other volunteers.
As of 2006, Jinbonet had reported that it was providing hosting service for 600 civil society organisations, on their LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PhP) servers. This includes farmers' groups, civil movement, unionists, the women's movement, and human rights campaigners, among others.
"Difficult in imbibing international mindset"
"Koreans (in civil society) have a difficulty to imbibe an international mindset. Koreans civil society organizations think that international solidarity is very important, in the age of globalisation. Specially the struggle against neo-liberalisation, WTO-attack or FTA-attack. International solidarity is one of the most important strategy. But in Korea it is difficult to use ICT for international solidarity because of the language problem", PatchA of Jinbonet has been quoted saying.
Issues raised
Some of the issues raised by Jinbonet recently include the Free Trade Agreement signed between South Korea and the United States, and, in particular, its implications on "intellectual property rights" issues. The Internet Realname System(IRS) legislation passed in 2004 is another issue taken up and raised by Jinbonet.
Internet Realname System
Under this law, the New Media and websites would be needed to install an Internet Realname System on their bulletin boards or comment board, thus compelling them to certify the identity of the person posting comments—a move seen by campaigners like Jinbonet as affecting privacy and free speech on the Net.
Its website says, “No copyright, Just copyleft!”
Tech progress, socially lagging behind
South Korea has a significant online population—out of a total population of 50 million, broadband registrations cross 11 million, and internet users total 30 million. Some 70% of the population is seen to have access to the net. High-tech tools like IPTV have been introduce, as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GatorBox | The GatorBox is a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge, a router used on Macintosh-based networks to allow AppleTalk communications between clients on LocalTalk and Ethernet physical networks. The GatorSystem software also allowed TCP/IP and DECnet protocols to be carried to LocalTalk-equipped clients via tunneling, providing them with access to these normally Ethernet-only systems.
When the GatorBox is running GatorPrint software, computers on the Ethernet network can send print jobs to printers on the LocalTalk network using the 'lpr' print spool command. When the GatorBox is running GatorShare software, computers on the LocalTalk network can access Network File System (NFS) hosts on Ethernet.
Specifications
The original GatorBox (model: 10100) is a desktop model that has a 10 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, 1 MB RAM, 128 KB EPROM for boot program storage, 2 KB NVRAM for configuration storage, LocalTalk Mini-DIN-8 connector, Serial port Mini-DIN-8 connector, BNC connector, AUI connector, and is powered by an external power supply (16 VAC 1 A transformer that is connected by a 2.5 mm plug). This model requires a software download when it is powered on to be able to operate.
The GatorBox CS (model: 10101) is a desktop model that uses an internal power supply (120/240 V, 1.0 A, 50–60 Hz).
The GatorMIM CS is a media interface module that fits in a Cabletron Multi-Media Access Center (MMAC).
The GatorBox CS/Rack (model: 10104) is a rack-mountable version of the GatorBox CS that uses an internal power supply (120/240 V, 1.0 A, 50–60 Hz).
The GatorStar GXM integrates the GatorMIM CS with a 24 port LocalTalk repeater.
The GatorStar GXR integrates the GatorBox CS/Rack with a 24 port LocalTalk repeater. This model does not have a BNC connector and the serial port is a female DE-9 connector.
All "CS" models have 2 MB of memory and can boot from images of the software that have been downloaded into the EPROM using the GatorInstaller application.
Software
There are three disks in the GatorBox software package. Note that the content of the disks for an original GatorBox is different from that of the GatorBox CS models.
Configuration - contains GatorKeeper, MacTCP folder and either GatorInstaller (for CS models) or GatorBox TFTP and GatorBox UDP-TFTP (for original GatorBox model)
Application - contains GatorSystem, GatorPrint or GatorShare, which is the software that runs in the GatorBox. The application software for the GatorBox CS product family has a "CS" at the end of the filename. GatorPrint includes GatorSystem functionality. GatorShare includes GatorSystem and GatorPrint functionality.
Network Applications - NCSA Telnet, UnStuffit
Software Requirements
The GatorKeeper 2.0 application requires Macintosh System version 6.0.2 up to 7.5.1 and Finder version 6.1 (or later)
MacTCP (not Open Transport)
See also
Kinetics FastPath
Line Printer Daemon protocol – Print Spooling
LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge – Other LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridges/routers
MacIP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20line%20termination | An optical line termination (OLT), also called an optical line terminal, is a device which serves as the service provider endpoint of a passive optical network. It provides two main functions:
to perform conversion between the electrical signals used by the service provider's equipment and the fiber optic signals used by the passive optical network.
to coordinate the multiplexing between the conversion devices on the other end of that network (called either optical network terminals or optical network units).
The diagram below depicts an OLT within a fiber-optic network.
Features
OLTs include the following features:
A downstream frame processing means for receiving and churning an Asynchronous Transfer Mode cell to generate a downstream frame, and converting a parallel data of the downstream frame into a serial data thereof.
A wavelength division multiplexing means for performing an electro/optical conversion of the serial data of the downstream frame and performing a wavelength division multiplexing thereof.
An upstream frame processing means for extracting data from the wavelength division multiplexing means, searching an overhead field, delineating a slot boundary, and processing a physical layer operations administration and maintenance (PLOAM) cell and a divided slot separately.
A control signal generation means for performing a media access control (MAC) protocol and generating variables and timing signals used for the downstream frame processing means and the upstream frame processing means.
A control means for controlling the downstream frame processing means and the upstream frame processing means by using the variables and the timing signals from the control signal generation means.
Fiber-optic communications
Telecommunications equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Dean%20%28model%29 | Richard Dean (né Cowen; May 15, 1956 – December 27, 2006) was an American athlete, model and photographer, who co-hosted Cover Shot, a television makeover show on the American cable TV network TLC.
Early life and education
Dean was born Richard Cowen in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1956. He was the son of Chet and Juanita Cohen. Dean attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland, and the Lawrenceville School in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended the University of Delaware on a football scholarship.
Career
He began working as a fashion model in the mid-1980s and later became a self-taught fashion and advertising photographer. His clients included Gianni Versace, Yves St. Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Reebok, Nike, Fujifilm, Beck's, Michelob, Fila, Playboy and TV Guide.
Dean's first appearance on a TV reality show was on UPN's America's Next Top Model. In 2006, he joined model Frederique van der Wal on TLC's Cover Shot, in which "supermoms" were transformed into "supermodels".
Death
Dean died on December 27, 2006, of pancreatic cancer at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
References
Fashion photographers
Male models from Maryland
University High School (Los Angeles) alumni
People from Bethesda, Maryland
Deaths from pancreatic cancer in New York (state)
1956 births
2006 deaths
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCOR-FM | WCOR-FM (96.7 MHz) is a radio station licensed to Lewis Run, Pennsylvania, and serving Olean, New York. It is owned by the Family Life Network but has been mothballed since September 2021, with its long-term future uncertain due to ownership limits and a consolidated media scene in the western Twin Tiers.
WCOR-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 460 watts. Its transmitter is on Indiana Avenue in Olean.
History
WFRM-FM and WBYB
In 1985, the station signed on as WFRM-FM, licensed to Coudersport, Pennsylvania. It was the sister station to WFRM (600 AM), owned by the Farm & Home Broadcasting Company and was a member of the Allegany Mountain Radio Network. During that time, the station ran a satellite-delivered hot adult contemporary format, and in the mid-2000s, it simulcast WQRM.
The Allegheny Mountain Radio Network began disbanding in the mid-2000s. In 2008, the owners asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow the city of license to be changed to Portville, New York. Backyard Broadcasting, owners of market leader WPIG, offered to buy the station, though the purchase eventually fell through. After the failed sale to Backyard, that company also began divesting its radio interests. Colonial Radio Group, owners of WLMI and WXMT, followed with a lower bid, which was accepted. The deal was finalized in July 2009.
Upon closing the deal, Colonial CEO Jeff Androlunis changed the call sign to WLMY (perhaps indicating a format similar to WLMI), then shortly to WBYB. Androlunis, upon signing on the signal, criticized WPIG's personality-driven format and use of classic country in its playlist, claiming he had done research that supported a new country station (Backyard Broadcasting, shortly after this, parked the WLMY calls on a station of its own, a hot-AC station in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Colonial had owned a station in Williamsport at the time.).
Among WBYB's initial programming was the Midday Mayhem with Mindy Cunningham, a program formerly heard on WPIG. Cunningham has since left the station. Kerry Monroe, who previously hosted afternoon drive and moved to middays after Cunningham left, is also a former WPIG announcer. After about a year of simulcasting WLMI's morning show, WBYB began carrying its own morning show hosted by Androlunis and a co-host named "Sweet Tea." Later, WBYB picked up the syndicated Bob and Sheri program in the morning. The other prominent host on WBYB was Casey Hill, also formerly of WPIG; Hill hosted middays before moving to WGWE, then retiring and relocating out of the area. The Lia Show aired evenings.
WBYB carried broadcasts of Allegany-Limestone Central School sports in 2010 while W237CS carried Smethport High School athletics. WBYB's mascot during its run in country music was Bob the Builder.
Frequency swap and talk radio format
On October 19, 2011, WBYB's call signs were moved to FM 103.9 (then WVTT) in Kane, Pennsylvania.
From that point until the new WBYB was relocated to Eldred, Pennsy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20law%20firms%20by%20revenue | This is a list of the world's largest law firms, using data from fiscal year 2021. Firms marked with "(verein)" are structured as a Swiss association.
See also
List of largest law firms by profits per partner
List of largest United States-based law firms
List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue
List of largest Canada-based law firms by revenue
List of largest Europe-based law firms by revenue
List of largest Japan-based law firms by head count
List of largest China-based law firms by revenue
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20IoT | Windows IoT, short for Windows Internet of Things and formerly known as Windows Embedded, is a family of operating systems from Microsoft designed for use in embedded systems. Microsoft has three different subfamilies of operating systems for embedded devices targeting a wide market, ranging from small-footprint, real-time devices to point of sale (POS) devices like kiosks. Windows Embedded operating systems are available to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), who make it available to end users preloaded with their hardware, in addition to volume license customers in some cases.
In April 2018, Microsoft released Azure Sphere, another operating system designed for IoT applications running on the Linux kernel.
The IoT family
Microsoft rebranded "Windows Embedded" to "Windows IoT" starting with the release of embedded editions of Windows 10.
Enterprise
Windows IoT Enterprise branded editions, version 1809 and older, are binary identical to their respective Windows 10 Enterprise editions – Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB), Current Branch for Business (CBB), Semi-Annual Channel (SAC), and Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) – but are licensed exclusively for use in embedded devices. This brand replaces the Embedded Industry, Embedded Standard, and "For Embedded Systems" (FES) brands/subfamilies. Plain unlabeled, Retail/Thin Client, Tablet, and Small Tablet SKUs are available, again differing only in licensing.
It now contains a minor change that allows the use of smaller storage devices, with the possibility of more changes being made in the future. In addition, starting with the LTSC edition of version 21H2, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC will gain an extra five years of support compared to Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC.
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2015 (value based pricing):
SKU 6EU-00124 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2015 LTSB - High End Edition (Intel Core i7 | Intel Xeon | AMD FX)
SKU 6EU-00125 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2015 LTSB - Value Edition (Intel Core i3/i5 | AMD R-Series, A10, A8)
SKU 6EU-00126 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2015 LTSB - Entry Edition (Intel Atom/Celeron | AMD E1, E2, A4, A6)
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 (value based pricing):
SKU 6EU-00034 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB - High End Edition (Intel Core i7 | Intel Xeon | AMD FX)
SKU 6EU-00035 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB - Value Edition (Intel Core i3/i5 | AMD R-Series, A10, A8)
SKU 6EU-00036 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB - Entry Edition (Intel Atom/Celeron | AMD E1, E2, A4, A6)
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 (category based pricing):
SKU 6F6-00036 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 CBB - High End Edition (Intel Core i7 | Intel Xeon | AMD FX)
SKU 6F6-00037 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 CBB - Value Edition (Intel Core i3/i5 | AMD R-Series, A10, A8)
SKU 6F6-00038 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 CBB - Entry Edition (Intel Atom/Celeron | AMD E1, E2, A4, A6)
SKU 6F6-00036 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 SAC - High End Edition (Intel Cor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citipointe%20Church | Citipointe Church, formerly Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield, is a Pentecostal Christian church founded in 1974. It is the founding church of the Christian Outreach Centre network, now known as the International Network of Churches. The founding campus is located in the Brisbane suburb of Carindale, Queensland, in Australia. The church has multiple locations in south-east Queensland, as well as in New Zealand, Bulgaria and the US.
Citipointe Worship, formerly Citipointe Live, is the contemporary Pentecostal praise and worship group of the church, formed in 2004. They have released at least 13 albums, which are streamed on Spotify.
History
Christian Outreach Centre Mansfield was founded under the leadership of pastor Clark Taylor on 23 June 1974, when 25 people met together in his loungeroom in Keperra, Brisbane. The Christian Outreach Centre movement has since grown into an international movement.
People
In 1996, then pastor Brian Mulheran gave evidence to a Senate committee at an inquiry into sex discrimination law.
The church's global senior pastors as of January 2022 are Mark and Leigh Ramsey, who have held the position since September 2000.
former pastor Mulheran was principal of Citipointe Christian College and was the subject of a community backlash to a new enrolment contract he sent out to parents which condemned homosexual and bisexual identities. On 6 February, Mark Ramsey apologised to the congregation for any “confusion and pain that people felt this week”, regarding the controversial enrolment contract at the school, and then led a standing ovation for Mulheran, who had taken indefinite leave after being pressured to do so by some of the school's senior teachers.
Locations
The church has multiple locations in south-east Queensland, as well as in New Zealand, Bulgaria and the US.
, Citipointe has six church campuses in Queensland: Citipointe Brisbane, Citipointe North (Morayfield), Citipointe West (Durack) and Citipointe Redcliffe (Clontarf), Citipointe Ipswich (located in Yamanto). Citipointe Pine Rivers was added in September 2016.
The "Citipointe Campus" includes:
the church
a primary and secondary school (Citipointe Christian College)
Citipointe Christian College International (ELICOS Centre)
a college of higher education (Christian Heritage College)
a Bible college (Citipointe Ministry College)
a daycare centre (Citipointe Child Care)
Citipointe also has four international campuses, two in the United States (Citipointe NOCO (Northern Colorado) USA, and Citipointe Nashville USA,) as well as Citipointe Auckland (New Zealand) and Citipointe Bulgaria.
Ministries
Citipointe Church initiated the Red Frog Crew who provide drug- and alcohol-free entertainment, medical help and volunteers at schoolies festivals.
Leigh Ramsey started the SHE Rescue Home in Cambodia, a place where trafficked and prostituted girls receive counselling, medical attention, education and vocational training.
Citipointe Worship
Citipointe Wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel%20Jankel | Annabel Jankel (born 1 June 1955), also known as AJ Jankel, is a British film and TV director who first came to prominence as a music video director and the co-creator of the pioneering cyber-character Max Headroom and as co-director of the film adaptation of Super Mario Bros. She is the sister of musician and songwriter Chaz Jankel, who is best known as a member of new wave band Ian Dury & The Blockheads.
Early career
She started her career in the late 1970s at the UK-based film production company Cucumber Studios which she founded with her partner - fellow director Rocky Morton. Jankel and Morton specialized in creating music videos, TV commercials and TV title sequences using a combination of live action, animation and the then emerging art of computer graphics. In this period the duo directed several music videos for performers including Rush ("The Enemy Within"), Elvis Costello ("Accidents Will Happen"), Talking Heads ("Blind"), Tom Tom Club ("Genius of Love", "Pleasure of Love", "Don't Say No"), Donald Fagen ("New Frontier") and Miles Davis ("Decoy").
In 1985, Jankel and Morton won an Emmy Award for their title sequence for the NBC show Friday Night Videos. And that same year their innovative TV commercial for the newly launched soft drink Quatro gained recognition at the British Television Advertising Awards.
In 2003, their 1978 music video for Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen" was one of only 35 videos selected for inclusion in the Museum of Modern Art's prestigious "Golden Oldies of Music Video" exhibition. Their music videos are found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
In 1984, Jankel and Morton co-authored a book titled Creative Computer Graphics that detailed the history of the craft and essayed its future.
Breakthrough
Jankel co-created Max Headroom, a cult cyberpunk character that evolved into multiple TV productions and became very influential in science fiction TV and impacted popular culture in the 1980s. Jankel and Morton first created and directed The Max Talking Headroom Show - an entertainment program that featured comedic sequences, interviews conducted by the Headroom cyber-character and music videos. (Channel 4 - UK and HBO - US). This led to the TV film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, also directed by the duo. The TV film in turn inspired the ABC Max Headroom US TV series.
Subsequent to the success of Max Headroom, Jankel and Morton moved to Los Angeles. They were considered to co-direct the 1988 horror film Child’s Play, the first film to feature the character of Chucky, before Tom Holland was hired. Together they worked on D.O.A, a remake of the 1949 film of the same name, starring Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. The film received critical acclaim in The Washington Post'''' and from film writers such as Roger Ebert who described it as "a witty and literate thriller".
Following D.O.A., Jankel and Morton directed the f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20Vectoring%20Protocol | In computer networks, Content Vectoring Protocol is a protocol for filtering data that is crossing a firewall into an external scanning device. An example of this is where all HTTP traffic is virus-scanned before being sent out to the user.
This protocol is identified as part of the Checkpoint training as being one of the benefits of their products. It is not known whether this is just a re-working of another protocol that has been re-branded by Checkpoint or if this is a generic Internet protocol.
Its default is to use TCP port 18181.
It is used separately by few servers implementing firewall to inspect the http content. It may or may not inspect the whole of the content, which is entirely based on the administrator managing the firewall. The administrator can direct the whole of the internet traffic to the content vectoring protocol or specific content coming from specific source to be inspected by the content vectoring protocol.
References
Network protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Fitch%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Peter Fitch (also known as John ffitch) is a computer scientist, mathematician and composer, who has worked on relativity, planetary astronomy, computer algebra and Lisp. Alongside Victor Lazzarini and Steven Yi, he is the project leader for audio programming language Csound, having a leading role in its development since the early 1990s; and he was a director of Codemist Ltd, which developed the Norcroft C compiler.
Education and early life
Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England in December 1945, Fitch was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where he gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1971 supervised by David Barton.
Career and research
Fitch spent six years at Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher - winning the Adams Prize for Mathematics in 1975 for a joint essay with David Barton on Applications of algebraic manipulative systems to physics.
Fitch was a visiting professor the University of Utah for a year, then lectured at the University of Leeds for 18 months, before becoming professor and then chair of software engineering at the University of Bath, which his biography claims is "a subject about which he knows little"; his 31-year career there lasted April 1980 – September 2011, after which he was named an adjunct professor of music at Maynooth University.
Fitch lectured for the module CM20029: The Essence of Compilers, as well as optional modules involving computer music and digital signal processing. According to his biography, "despite his long hair and beard, and the uncertain spelling of his name, [he] was never a hippie".
His former doctoral students include James Davenport and Tom Crick.
Personal life
Fitch is married to historian Audrey Fitch.
References
1945 births
English computer scientists
English mathematicians
Academics of the University of Bath
Living people
People from Barnsley
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
University of Utah faculty
Academics of the University of Leeds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinge%20attack | In Internet-based computer-networking, a Twinge attack is a flood of false ICMP packets in an attempt to cripple a system.
The attack is spoofed, that is, random fake Internet source addresses are used in the ICMP packets. This makes identification of the source of the malicious packets difficult. The idea of the attack is to either degrade the performance of the attacked computer or make it crash. The attacking program is called Twinge, but the ICMP packets have a particular signature which gives the identity away.
As long as the computer is safely behind a router or a firewall, there is nothing to worry about with this attack. With this attack, the adversary intends to prevent the system from operating normally, i.e. a denial of service. Configuring upstream network devices (including firewalls and routers) to ignore ICMP packets from the public Internet will make this almost certainly not succeed.
References
Denial-of-service attacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Ocean%20Atlas | The World Ocean Atlas (WOA) is a data product of the Ocean Climate Laboratory of the National Oceanographic Data Center (U.S.). The WOA consists of a climatology of fields of in situ ocean properties for the World Ocean. It was first produced in 1994 (based on the earlier Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean, 1982), with later editions at roughly four year intervals in 1998, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2018, and 2023.
Dataset
The fields that make up the WOA dataset consist of objectively-analysed global grids at 1° spatial resolution. The fields are three-dimensional, and data are typically interpolated onto 33 standardised vertical intervals from the surface (0 m) to the abyssal seafloor (5500 m). In terms of temporal resolution, averaged fields are produced for annual, seasonal and monthly time-scales. The WOA fields include ocean temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, apparent oxygen utilisation (AOU), percent oxygen saturation, phosphate, silicic acid, and nitrate. Early editions of the WOA additionally included fields such as mixed layer depth and sea surface height.
In addition to the averaged fields of ocean properties, the WOA also contains fields of statistical information concerning the constituent data that the averages were produced from. These include fields such as the number of data points the average is derived from, their standard deviation and standard error. A lower horizontal resolution (5°) version of the WOA is also available. The WOA dataset is primarily available as compressed ASCII, but since WOA 2005 a netCDF version has also been produced.
Gallery
See also
CORA dataset
European Atlas of the Seas
Geochemical Ocean Sections Study (GEOSECS)
Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)
World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)
References
External links
NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory datasets and products
Chemical oceanography
Oceanography
World Ocean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComLink%2C%20Germany | ComLink, Germany is one of the earlier organizations involved in building networks for online communication of the alternative sector in Germany.
According to an essay titled In the beginning there was FIDO, "Fidonet gateways were installed at WebNetworks (Canada), IGC (United States), GreenNet (UK), Laneta (Mexico), Comlink (Germany), Nordnet (Sweden) and Worknet/Sangonet (South Africa)."
External links
ComLink (in German)
Non-profit organisations based in Germany
Information technology organisations based in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20object%20pattern | In object-oriented computer programming, a null object is an object with no referenced value or with defined neutral (null) behavior. The null object design pattern, which describes the uses of such objects and their behavior (or lack thereof), was first published as "Void Value"
and later in the Pattern Languages of Program Design book series as "Null Object" .
Motivation
In most object-oriented languages, such as Java or C#, references may be null. These references need to be checked to ensure they are not null before invoking any methods, because methods typically cannot be invoked on null references.
The Objective-C language takes another approach to this problem and does nothing when sending a message to nil; if a return value is expected, nil (for objects), 0 (for numeric values), NO (for BOOL values), or a struct (for struct types) with all its members initialised to null/0/NO/zero-initialised struct is returned.
Description
Instead of using a null reference to convey absence of an object (for instance, a non-existent customer), one uses an object which implements the expected interface, but whose method body is empty. A key purpose of using a null object is to avoid conditionals of different kinds, resulting in code that is more focused, quicker to read and follow - i e improved readability.
One advantage of this approach over a working default implementation is that a null object is very predictable and has no side effects: it does nothing.
For example, a function may retrieve a list of files in a folder and perform some action on each. In the case of an empty folder, one response may be to throw an exception or return a null reference rather than a list. Thus, the code which expects a list must verify that it in fact has one before continuing, which can complicate the design.
By returning a null object (i.e., an empty list) instead, there is no need to verify that the return value is in fact a list. The calling function may simply iterate the list as normal, effectively doing nothing. It is, however, still possible to check whether the return value is a null object (an empty list) and react differently if desired.
The null object pattern can also be used to act as a stub for testing, if a certain feature such as a database is not available for testing.
Since the child nodes may not exist, one must modify the procedure by adding non-existence or null checks:
function tree_size(node) {
set sum = 1
if node.left exists {
sum = sum + tree_size(node.left)
}
if node.right exists {
sum = sum + tree_size(node.right)
}
return sum
}
This, however, makes the procedure more complicated by mixing boundary checks with normal logic, and it becomes harder to read. Using the null object pattern, one can create a special version of the procedure but only for null nodes:
function tree_size(node) {
return 1 + tree_size(node.left) + tree_size(node.right)
}
function tree_size(null_node) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apdex | Apdex (Application Performance Index) is an open standard developed by an alliance of companies for measuring performance of software applications in computing. Its purpose is to convert measurements into insights about user satisfaction, by specifying a uniform way to analyze and report on the degree to which measured performance meets user expectations. It is based on counts of "satisfied", "tolerating", and "frustrated" users, given a maximum satisfactory response time t, a maximum tolerable response time 4t, and where users are assumed to be frustrated above 4t. The score is equivalent to a weighted average of these user counts with weights 1, 0.5, and 0, respectively.
Problems addressed
When engaging in application performance management, for example in the course of website monitoring, enterprises collect many measurements of the performance of information technology applications. However, this measurement data may not provide a clear and simple picture of how well those applications are performing from a business point of view, a characteristic desired in metrics that are used as key performance indicators. Reporting several different kinds of data can cause confusion. Reducing measurement data to a single well understood metric is a convenient way to track and report on quality of experience.
Measurements of application response times, in particular, may be difficult to evaluate because:
Viewed alone, they do not reveal whether people using the application consider its behavior to be highly responsive for their particular needs, merely tolerable, or frustratingly slow.
Using averages to summarize many measurement samples washes out important details in the measurement distribution, and may obscure evidence that many users may have been frustrated with application response times that were significantly slower than the average value.
The objectives (or goals or targets) set for response time values are not uniform across different applications. This makes it difficult to view comparable data for several applications side-by-side (such as in a digital dashboard), and see quickly which are meeting their objectives and which are not.
The Apdex method seeks to address these problems.
Apdex method
Proponents of the Apdex standard believe that it offers a better way to "measure what matters". The Apdex method converts many measurements into one number on a uniform scale of 0 to 1 (0 = no users satisfied, 1 = all users satisfied). The resulting Apdex score is a numerical measure of user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise applications. This metric can be used to report on any source of end-user performance measurements for which a performance objective has been defined.
The Apdex formula is the number of satisfied samples plus half of the tolerating samples plus none of the frustrated samples, divided by all the samples:
where the sub-script t is the target time, and the tolerable time is assumed to be 4 times the target |
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