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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20diagnosis | Computer-aided detection (CADe), also called computer-aided diagnosis (CADx), are systems that assist doctors in the interpretation of medical images. Imaging techniques in X-ray, MRI, Endoscopy, and ultrasound diagnostics yield a great deal of information that the radiologist or other medical professional has to analyze and evaluate comprehensively in a short time. CAD systems process digital images or videos for typical appearances and to highlight conspicuous sections, such as possible diseases, in order to offer input to support a decision taken by the professional.
CAD also has potential future applications in digital pathology with the advent of whole-slide imaging and machine learning algorithms. So far its application has been limited to quantifying immunostaining but is also being investigated for the standard H&E stain.
CAD is an interdisciplinary technology combining elements of artificial intelligence and computer vision with radiological and pathology image processing. A typical application is the detection of a tumor. For instance, some hospitals use CAD to support preventive medical check-ups in mammography (diagnosis of breast cancer), the detection of polyps in Colonoscopy, and lung cancer.
Computer-aided detection (CADe) systems are usually confined to marking conspicuous structures and sections. Computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems evaluate the conspicuous structures. For example, in mammography CAD highlights microcalcification clusters and hyperdense structures in the soft tissue. This allows the radiologist to draw conclusions about the condition of the pathology. Another application is CADq, which quantifies, e.g., the size of a tumor or the tumor's behavior in contrast medium uptake. Computer-aided simple triage (CAST) is another type of CAD, which performs a fully automatic initial interpretation and triage of studies into some meaningful categories (e.g. negative and positive). CAST is particularly applicable in emergency diagnostic imaging, where a prompt diagnosis of critical, life-threatening condition is required.
Although CAD has been used in clinical environments for over 40 years, CAD usually does not substitute the doctor or other professional, but rather plays a supporting role. The professional (generally a radiologist) is generally responsible for the final interpretation of a medical image. However, the goal of some CAD systems is to detect earliest signs of abnormality in patients that human professionals cannot, as in diabetic retinopathy, architectural distortion in mammograms, ground-glass nodules in thoracic CT, and non-polypoid (“flat”) lesions in CT colonography.
Topics
A Brief History
In the late 1950s, with the dawn of modern computers researchers in various fields started exploring the possibility of building computer-aided medical diagnostic (CAD) systems. These first CAD systems used flow-charts, statistical pattern-matching, probability theory or knowledge bases to drive their decision- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Owens%20%28singer-songwriter%29 | John Milton Owens (October 17, 1912 – January 26, 1982) was a singer-songwriter, pianist, and star of the longest running network radio show Don McNeil's Breakfast Club. He was known as "The Cruising Crooner" because of his unique showmanship of cruising through mostly female audiences attending the live Breakfast Club broadcasts, and crooning love ballads to the blushing and giggling women, often singing directly to them, one at a time, sitting on their laps, and nuzzling close to them.
Owens was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From his start in small, local Chicago radio stations holding up applause signs and his brief performances in vaudeville, to his fame on NBC and ABC as a radio singing star with movie star looks, Owens found ways to stay in the spotlight in popular music with catchy songs, love ballads, and even Hawaiian songs. Some of his music even appeared in such movies as San Antonio Rose in 1941 and From Here to Eternity in 1953.
Owens, who married fellow Chicago radio star Helen Streiff in the early 1930s, started his recording career with independent label, Tower Records, and then after the huge success of "The Hukilau Song", and "I'll Weave a Lei of Stars for You" in 1948, he was signed to Decca, the biggest label at the time.
Overlooked or forgotten by many today, Owens was America's 10th favorite male vocalist from 1936 to 1944. He was best known for writing or co-writing such successful tunes as "The Hut-Sut Song", "Hi, Neighbor", "How Soon", "The Hukilau Song", and "I'll Weave a Lei of Stars for You". He either wrote, co-wrote, composed, recorded, or some combination of these music credits, more than 50 songs spanning from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s.
He also had his own TV show, The Jack Owens Show (aka The Brunch Bunch), during the pioneer days of TV of the early 1950s, and even received two Emmy nominations.
Though his songs have been covered by numerous well-known artists – Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bing Crosby, Freddy Martin, The Merry Macs, Andy Williams, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Woody Herman, Vaughn Monroe, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Kay Kyser Orchestra, Sammy Kaye Orchestra, Nat "King" Cole, Orrin Tucker, Spike Jones, Pat Boone, Ferlin Husky, The Platters, The Cadets / The Jacks (of "Why Don't You Write Me" fame), Alfred Apaka, Don Ho and Frank Sinatra – they have not always been correctly credited to him, have lacked adequate information about him, or have been misattributed to blues singer Jack Owens.
Owens retired from show business in 1957 and worked in real estate in Phoenix. Although he co-wrote "Back In Aloha Land" in 1963, and he co-wrote "I'm The Only One That Wants Me" in 1965, the pop era of music he once embraced and sang had gone by the wayside, falling in the shadows of rock and roll and the Beatles.
He served as honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades, California from 1955 to 1957. Owens appeared in a Mae West movie, The Heat's On.
His music publishing company, Owens-Kemp Music Co. was located in Holly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duryog%20Nivaran | Duryog Nivaran is a South Asian organization that comprises "a network of individuals and organizations who are committed to promoting an alternative perspective on disasters and vulnerability as a basis for disaster mitigation in the region". It was formed in 1994.
It has partnerships with number of organizations from five South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and ADPC. The network embarked on a three-year programme of work supported by ECHO and DFID. Its aim is to "reduce the vulnerability" of communities to disasters and conflicts. It aims to do so by "integrating the alternative perspective" at all the different levels of South Asian disaster mitigation and development programmes; conceptual, policy and implementation.
In 2005, Duryog Nivaran played a role in putting out the South Asia Disaster Report which was rescinded in 2010. In 2006, it drafted a South Asia Policy Document on disaster risk and its effect on people's livelihood which later on formed the basis for the South Asian Policy Dialogue.
References
External links
Duryog Nivaran website
Organisations based in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Baumann%20%28disambiguation%29 | Peter Baumann (born 1953) is a German musician with Tangerine Dream.
Peter Baumann may also refer to:
Peter Baumann (computer scientist) (born 1960), German computer scientist and professor
Peter Baumann (psychiatrist) (1935–2011), Swiss physician known for participating in assisted suicides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy%20Systems | Trilogy Systems Corporation was a computer systems company started in 1980. Originally called ACSYS, the company was founded by Gene Amdahl, his son Carl Amdahl and Clifford Madden. Flush with the success of his previous company, Amdahl Corporation, Gene Amdahl was able to raise $230 million for his new venture. Trilogy was the most well funded start-up company up till that point in Silicon Valley history. It had corporate support from Groupe Bull, Digital Equipment Corporation, Unisys, Sperry Rand and others. The plan was to use extremely advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques to build an IBM compatible mainframe computer that was both cheaper and more powerful than existing systems from IBM and Amdahl Corporation.
These techniques included wafer scale integration (WSI), with the goal of producing a computer chip that was 2.5 inch on one side. At the time, computer chips of only 0.25 inch on a side could be reliably manufactured. This giant chip was to be connected to the rest of the system using a package with 1200 pins, an enormous number at the time. Previously, mainframe computers were built from hundreds of computer chips due to the size of standard computer chips. These computer systems were hampered through chip-to-chip communication which both slowed performance as well consumed much power.
As with other WSI projects, Trilogy's chip design relied on redundancy, that is replication of functional units, to overcome the manufacturing defects that precluded such large chips. If one functional unit was not fabricated properly, it would be switched out through on-chip wiring and another correctly functioning copy would be used. By keeping most communication on-chip, the dual benefits of higher performance and lower power consumption were supposed to be achieved. Lower power consumption meant less expensive cooling systems, which would aid in lower system costs.
For maximum performance, bipolar emitter-coupled logic was employed, even though its power consumption is large.
The large chip size demanded larger minimum dimensions for the transistors (due to photolithography manufacturing tolerances over the large chip) than standard-size chips. Consequently, logic density and performance were less than had been forecast.
"Triple Modular Redundancy" was employed systematically. Every logic gate and every flip-flop were triplicated with binary two-out-of-three voting at each flip-flop.
Alongside the advances in chip manufacturing, advanced chip packaging techniques were also pursued by the company. These included vertical stacking of computer chips and chip-to-chip interconnect technology that used copper conductors and polyimide insulation that allowed for extremely dense packing of signal wiring. Though overall system power consumption would be lower, the power dissipation would be much more concentrated at the single large chip. This required new cooling techniques such as sealed heat exchangers to be developed.
The company was b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural%20Radio%20Network | The Rural Radio Network (RRN) was an interconnected group of six commercial FM radio stations spread across upstate New York and operated from Ithaca, New York -- the first all-radio, no-wireline network in the world. It began operation in 1948 as an innovative broadcast service to the agricultural community, but competition from television—and a lack of affordable, well-performing FM receivers—caused the founders' original business plan to fail. The stations changed ownership, as well as Radio formats, several times in futile attempts to achieve profitability. Perhaps the group's most notable owner was the Christian Broadcasting Network, headed by televangelist Pat Robertson, which acquired the stations through a corporate donation in 1969. A decade later, Robertson decided to sell the stations and the licenses were gradually transferred to individual owners in 1981 and 1982, thus dissolving one of the nation's earliest FM networks.
Network history through 1981
Planning
The concept of building the world's first farmer-owned network originated at the Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange (commonly known as "GLF"), an agricultural co-op founded in 1920 in Ithaca, which later merged with another co-op to form the Agway organization that remains today. GLF, also noted for its role in founding the P&C Foods supermarket chain, began to use radio several years before the start of World War II and later assembled an informal network of about ten AM stations, connected by leased telephone lines, over which a weekly five-minute program was aired. The value of this early "network" was proven during the war when GLF members found it difficult to attend regular meetings.
In December 1946, GLF's directors approved a plan to expand the use of radio and allocated $10,000 to form the Rural Radio Foundation, a non-profit organization that would embrace several agricultural interest groups including the New York State Grange, Dairymen's League, and New York Artificial Breeder's Co-op. This foundation, which formally incorporated on March 18, 1947, would be sole owner of a subsidiary commercial broadcasting corporation, The Rural Radio Network, Inc., with any operating profits to be turned back to the founding groups for educational and research purposes. Corporate officers included president H.L. Creal, vice-president Clifford Snyder, and secretary-treasurer George Slocum. They were convinced that the recently opened 88-108 MHz FM band offered superior reliability over AM "standard broadcast" -- particularly before sunrise when many farmers would start their daily tasks—and broader opportunities to establish new stations where needed. In April 1947, GLF appropriated an additional $200,000 to launch the new FM network.
R. B. Gervan, head of GLF's Information Service, was granted a leave of absence from that position to serve as General Manager of RRN until it was well established. Robert B. Child, an experienced farm broadcaster, was hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper%20National%20Network | The Newspaper National Network LP (NNN) was a marketing partnership of the top 25 newspaper companies in the United States and the Newspaper Association of America. NNN provided major advertisers with planning and placement support across over 9,000 newspapers for print and online. The group was headquartered in New York City.
NNN was formed in 1994 by a cross-industry effort to reverse a long-term decline in national advertising in newspapers. Former New York City School Chancellor Cathie Black was instrumental in NNN's inception.
After careful study, the leading newspaper companies in America and the Newspaper Association of America financed the creation and launch of NNN. NNN was initially targeted on a highly selective set of advertiser categories, which did virtually no advertising in newspapers. Its scope expanded, and since 1994 NNN has placed over $2 billion in newspaper advertising campaigns.
NNN's shareholder companies owned most all major market newspapers, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. NNN's is focused on 16 vertical categories of advertising where newspapers receive less than 10% of total media spending. In 2003, the NNN shareholder partners collectively reaffirmed their support of NNN by adopting a new mission and operating principles.
NNN ceased operations on June 30, 2016.
External links
NNN official site
Trade associations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTHT | WTHT (99.9 FM; "The Wolf") is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Auburn, Maine, the station serves the Portland area. The station is owned by Binnie Media. Programming is simulcast on WBQQ (99.3 FM) in Kennebunk.
History
WTHT intellectual property
The first known usage of the WTHT call letters occurred in 1936 in Hartford, Connecticut for a radio station named after The Hartford Times. 25 years later the call letters appeared again, this time in Hazleton, Pennsylvania for a Daytime-only station.
The WTHT call letters were later once assigned to 102.9 FM under the moniker of "FM 103", playing CHR/Top 40 music, licensed to Portland, and operating at 100,000 watts ERP from June 1987 until December 1989.
In 1989, an agreement was made between WBLM, which at the time was broadcasting on 107.5 FM, and WTHT to swap frequencies while retaining their respective call letters. At the time of the swap, the 107.5 FM frequency had an ERP of 50,000 watts and was licensed to Lewiston (Auburn). This swap was intended to give WBLM a significantly stronger signal in Portland, as well as Central and Southern Maine, Eastern New Hampshire, and Northeastern Massachusetts; however, once the swap was complete, WTHT lost a significant amount of coverage, especially in extreme Southern Maine and Southeastern New Hampshire. In fact, during the summer tropospheric ducting season, WTHT often suffered from significant interference from WFCC-FM in Chatham, Massachusetts, also on 107.5 FM. This interference was often so significant that, at times, WTHT's signal was completely replaced by WFCC's signal in Southeastern New Hampshire and along the Maine coast from Kittery to the Biddeford/Saco area.
Once the swap with WBLM was complete, WTHT re-branded themselves as "Thunder 107", and retained their CHR format with a bit of a rhythmic lean, which was popular at the time. That format continued for a few years before being dropped in 1992 and flipped to an Oldies format with a new moniker of "Oldies 107.5". Later, the Oldies format was replaced by a Country format known as "107.5 The Wolf". In April 2004, as stated below, the WTHT calls, the country format, and for the most part, the moniker, were moved to 99.9 FM. The 107.5 FM frequency was then assigned the call letters WFNK and re-launched with a Classic Hits format under the name "107.5 Frank FM". This arrangement continues to this day.
99.9 frequency
99.9 FM signed on in February 1977 as WWAV, "Wave 100", which aired an easy listening format. In 1983, WWAV became "Kiss 99.9" with a Top 40 format, and used the call letters WKZS. WKZS was an affiliate during the short syndication run of "Matty in the Morning" from WXKS-FM in Boston.
Over time, WKZS adjusted its presentation to become a Hot AC, and in March 1997, the station reimaged to become "Mix 96.9 and 99.9", with the call letters WMWX following. In September 2000, the station brought back the "Kiss 99.9" name, this time using the call let |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaNGa | ChaNGa (Charm N-body GrAvity solver) is a computer program to perform collisionless N-body simulations. It can perform cosmological simulations with periodic boundary conditions in comoving coordinates or simulations of isolated stellar systems. It is based on the Barnes–Hut algorithm and uses Ewald summation for periodic forces.
ChaNGa makes use of the Charm++ parallel programming system, including its dynamic load balancing schemes, in order to scale to large processor configurations. Simulation results have been reported on up to 20,000 IBM Bluegene/L processors .
More information
For more information on obtaining, building and running ChaNGa, please see the Wiki documentation at
.
See also
PKDGRAV
GADGET
GRAPE
External links
University of Washington ChaNGa website
Charm++ web page at the Parallel Programming Lab, UIUC
ChaNGa Wiki documentation
Physical cosmology
Cosmological simulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Leckie | David John Leckie (4 May 195120 July 2021) was an Australian media manager, best known as a network television executive. Leckie was he the chief executive officer of the Network Nine between 1990 and 2001 and Seven West Media from 2003 to 2012. Afterwards he was for four years an executive director at Seven Group Holdings, which holds investments in Seven West, earthmoving company WesTrac and the Agricultural Bank of China.
Early life and education
Leckie was born in Sydney on 4 May 1951. His father, Ron, was head of the transport division at Unilever; his mother was Joyce. He was their first child, and he had two brothers, Stuart and Ian. Leckie was raised on the North Shore, and attended Newington College from 1962 to 1968. He then studied at Macquarie University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in economic and financial studies. Afterwards he travelled around Europe, where he also worked for Saatchi & Saatchi in London.
Career
Leckie joined in 1977 the Melbourne branch of Nine, GTV9, where he was network sales manager. From there he rose to network sales director of TCN9 in Sydney, chief executive on TCN9 and thereafter GTV9 in Melbourne. In August 1990 he became successor of Sam Chisholm as managing director of the Nine Network, which was then owned by Alan Bond. After Bond's bankruptcy in 1992 the network returned under the ownership of Kerry Packer. The network then attracted about one-third of Australia's TV audience and roughly 40% of network advertising revenue, which was 400 million dollars in 1988-89. Leckie focused on news and sports and under his leadership the network spent all but six weeks atop the television ratings for the next decade. Nine's dominance over its rivals began to diminish in 2001, when the new ratings system OzTAM, the implementation of which he was instrumental, was established. Early in January 2002 he was dismissed. He was succeeded by John Alexander and Ian Johnson, who took Nine back to the lead inside six months.
In January 2001 he was appointed for a four-year period as a trustee of the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust.
Leckie joined the Seven Network in April 2003 at the invitation of Kerry Stokes. He was joined by former Nine program director John Stephens and former Nine head-of-news Peter Meakin. Although it struggled during his first several months at the helm – culminating with a 13-year low in audience share in 2004 – the network's fortunes rebounded after it agreed an output deal with the Walt Disney Company. This enabled Seven to broadcast popular American shows in 2005, such as Desperate Housewives and Lost. A key part of Leckie's success was differentiating the network from Nine, appealing instead to a more casual, suburban audience. He resigned as CEO of Seven West Media in 2012, but continued advising the company for four years. He was brought out of retirement in March 2020 to serve as an executive mentor, including to his protege James Warburton.
Personal life
Leckie's firs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run%20BASIC | Run BASIC is a web application server, based on the Liberty BASIC version of the BASIC programming language.
Programming model
Run BASIC uses a desktop programming model. Web pages are not kept in individual files or dealt with as templates but are generated dynamically as determined by the programmer. It can be programmed in two styles. With procedural programming, applications are made using subroutines and functions. Application is state which is managed automatically and transparently. With object-oriented programming, applications can be componentized into objects with methods called on them. Any object can render itself into a web page as a way to have different parts of a web page managed in a modular way.
Run BASIC favors a widget-based approach where the user interface (UI) is programmed without using HyperText Markup Language (HTML). High-level commands automatically generate HTML. Colors, fonts, backgrounds and layout can be adjusted using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). If needed, HTML or JavaScript can be injected into a page. Interactivity is similar to that of desktop applications, with callbacks tying user actions to program routines. Marshaling web requests and dispatching user actions to procedures is automatic.
Run BASIC can draw graphics and render them into web pages; fetch files from other web sites using GET and POST and use a built-in XML parser to extract data; and includes a database capability using the SQLite database engine.
Web server model
Run BASIC is not an add-on module like Perl or PHP is for Apache. The BASIC compiler and execution model is integrated tightly with its own HTTP server. If needed, it can be proxied behind another web server, such as Apache. Session management is transparent to programmers. When a web application starts, it is given a session. If it is then inactive long enough (duration is customizable), the session times out and memory is reclaimed. Session logic need not be put in the code.
Supported platforms, licenses
Supported operating systems include Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux. Supported web browsers include Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3, and Safari 3.x. Licenses include commercial and freeware.
See also
Liberty BASIC, the Windows-based BASIC on which Run BASIC is based
SQLite, a popular database engine used by Run BASIC
References
External links
Run BASIC: Online programming at NetworkWorld
Hosting for Run BASIC applications
BASIC interpreters
Web frameworks
Web server software
BASIC programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically%20Direct | Politically Direct is a weekly radio talk show that airs Sunday afternoons on the Air America Radio network. David Bender serves as host.
The show originally aired on weekends but eventually was moved to an 8-9 PM nightly slot. In May 2007 the show was cancelled in favor of a show called The Air Americans, to which Bender was also a contributor. (That show was cancelled in August 2007.)
Politically Direct returned to Air America on June 8, 2008, as a replacement for the cancelled Seder on Sundays program. The show airs in Seder's former timeslot of 4 to 7 PM. Bender returned to host, leaving his position on accompanying weekend show Ring of Fire to do so.
Background
Politically Direct started as a weekend show on Air America in 2005. In September 2006, it was moved to a nightly time slot. Host David Bender started at Air America in 2004 as the network's political director. During the 2004 elections, Bender and fellow Air America personality Rachel Maddow hosted a Sunday show that summarized the weekend political talk shows, with an emphasis on countering bias and "spin" pertaining to the race. After the election, the show was moved to a regular slot on weekends, and followed its current format of in-depth interviews.
The theme song of Politically Direct is "If I Were You" by the group Venice.
References
American talk radio programs
Air America (radio network) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuf%20Cegetel | Neuf Cegetel was a French wireline telecommunications service provider and a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). It offered various telecommunications services to consumers, enterprises and wholesale customers, ranking second in the country in annual revenues. It was legally established in 2005 following the completion of the merger between Neuf Telecom (formerly known as LDCOM) and Cegetel. As of June 2008, the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of SFR, and the brand disappeared commercially.
History
Origins
LDCOM (the future Neuf Telecom) was established by the Louis Dreyfus Group in 1998, at the time of telecommunications deregulation, with a mission "to rapidly gain access to a network, penetrate into the center of the major urban areas, provide means of interconnection with the motorway networks, and offer the possibility of competitive long-distance links". At first it was present on the wholesale market only, providing services such as national and metro fiber networks, colocation and hosting centers to other operators and internet services providers, using its own network. Its main subsidiary, LD Cable, performed the engineering work, obtaining the necessary permits for the construction works, supplying and laying the fiber optic cables, and negotiating with local and regional authorities in France.
Cegetel was a separate company, established in 1996 as a subsidiary of Groupe SFR Cegetel, which combined a fixed line operator (Cegetel) and a wireless operator (SFR) established in 1987. Cegetel was France's second fixed-line operator, competing directly with France Telecom. It had about 2,000 employees and was using the network operated by "Telecom Development" (TD), a joint venture of Cegetel and the French railways, SNCF. It therefore had extensive network coverage in France, with 32,000 kilometers of fiber along France's railway lines and highways, fiber loops in metropolitan centers, and points of interconnection at the local exchange level.
LDCOM was a smaller company, but fast-moving and opportunistic. Cegetel provided good service and a recognized brand, especially in the enterprise and wholesale segments (over 16,000 corporate clients), but was probably more conservative and slower-moving.
Market consolidator in France
Unlike many (80+) loss-making alternative licensed operators in France, LDCOM was unaffected by the so-called telecoms crash in March 2000 because of its cautious and pragmatic overall approach. From 2000 to 2003, the French telecom services market went through a major consolidation. LDCOM acquired several alternate operators cheaply, including:
Kertel (January 2001 – some of its customers and assets)
Fortel (Squadron) (May 2001)
Kaptech (December 2001)
Belgacom France (March 2002)
FirstMark France (May 2002)
9 Telecom, from Telecom Italia (August 2002)
Ventelo France (October 2002)
Siris, France's third largest operator, from Deutsche Telekom (May 2003)
With these acquisitions, in 2003 LDCO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravit | Gravit
is a free and open-source gravity simulator distributed under the GNU General Public License. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Gravit uses the Barnes–Hut algorithm to simulate the n-body problem.
Description
Gravit is a gravity simulator which runs under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the GNU General Public License which makes it free. It uses Newtonian physics using the Barnes-Hut N-body algorithm. Although the main goal of Gravit is to be as accurate as possible, it also creates beautiful looking gravity patterns. It records the history of each particle so it can animate and display a path of its travels. At any stage you can rotate your view in 3D and zoom in and out. Gravit uses OpenGL with Lua, SDL, SDL_ttf and SDL_image.
Features
View the simulation in 3D, optionally using stereoscopic imaging
Can be installed as a screen saver in Windows
Record a simulation, then play back at any speed
Load / Save a recorded simulation
Mouse controllable rotation
Console with script execution
See an octtree being created in real-time
Colours can be based on mass, velocity, acceleration, momentum or kinetic energy
Initial particle locations are scriptable (Lua)
Status
As of some time in 2017, the website is dead, though the GitHub repository remains alive.
See also
Galaxy- A similar open source stellar simulator
Gravitation
Newtonian mechanics
References
External links
Official Gravit Website.
Gravit Source code repository on github
Project Page on Ohloh
Free astronomy software
Free science software
Science education software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwrecked%3A%20Battle%20of%20the%20Islands%202007 | Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2007 is a UK reality television series which aired on Channel 4's youth programming label T4. The fifth series of Shipwrecked was aired in 2007 and used the "Battle of the Islands" format, which was first seen in the previous year.
The game
The basic premise of Shipwrecked works in a Survivor style situation in which a group of strangers are placed in the Cook Islands. However instead of voting off members of their island they must persuade new arrivals to the game to join their island in an attempt to outnumber their rivals and win a share of £70,000. There are two competing tribes, the Sharks and Tigers which start out with five castaways on each island, and at the end of each weekly beach party in which all the castaways meet a new person joins and spends three days with each island before making their decision and choosing which tribe to join making each episode a seven-day cycle.
There are also numerous ways to make your tribe bigger without initially winning new arrivals. If a member of a tribe wishes to defect to the rival team they must announce at the beach party then state a case to the island he/she wishes to join. Unless there is a unanimous decision the person requesting to move must remain on their island for another week.
Punishments are harsh and severe in Shipwrecked, such as a permanent banishment to the rival island and being told to stay on your respective island during the beach party which could mean a big loss for that particular island wishing to obtain the new arrival. If a team is larger in number the producers may decide to shipwreck two castaways who must join the same team in order for the tribe with the lower number to stand a chance in the final week.
The 2007 series is notable for having three new twists into the competition, starting with a men vs. women divide, then in the final weeks a No Man's Land in which two new arrivals lived on that island for six days and two previous castaways from Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands joined the current islanders to decide the winners of the competition. The two previous castaways agreed to join the Tigers in a joint decision, meaning Tiger Island won overall with 15 tribe members to the Sharks' 14.
Island nominations
At the conclusion of the weekly beach party the castaways can nominate themselves to swap to the opposing island. The tribe they request to join must make a unanimous decision as to whether or to accept or deny their nomination. Each castaway is permitted two moves during their stay.
Punishments
If one (or more) castaways disobey the rules of the game at any point, a punishment is given on the immediately following the weekly beach party.
Tribes
As the tribes entered their final week on the islands, the Sharks led 14 castaways to the Tigers' 13. Two former castaways (John and Charlie) from the 2006 series joined the current castaways to choose their favourite island and hence decide the winners of Shipwrecked 2007. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie%20S | Bernie S. (born Edward Cummings) is a computer hacker living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a regular panelist on the WBAI radio show Off the Hook. In 2001 he appeared in Freedom Downtime, a documentary produced by 2600 Films.
Confiscation
In 1995, the police department of Haverford Township, Pennsylvania happened upon what they believed to be a drug transaction. However, upon looking closer, they discovered Bernie and others were actually buying and selling crystals used in crystal radio and other technological applications. The police who responded were not knowledgeable about technology or computers, which led them to confiscate all the crystals as suspicious materials along with some reading material such as The Whole Spy Catalog.
After the United States Secret Service inquired about the seized equipment, Special Agent Thomas Varney informed local police that some of the equipment was for illicit purposes only. Bernie was subsequently arrested and charged with possession of a non-working RadioShack Red box (phreaking) tone phone dialer. Additional materials were seized and never returned.
Criminal complaint
Charges were filed against Edward E. Cummings (case number 95-320) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The charges were for the possession of a speed dialer, an IBM Thinkpad laptop, and computer discs which could be used for unauthorized telecommunications access. The Grand Jury convened on March 13, 1995, and Bernie S's trial was scheduled for September 8, 1995. Varney labeled Bernie S a danger to society for having too much information, due to the publishing by 2600 Films and Bernie S of Secret Service offices locations, phone numbers, and radio frequencies, along with photos and codes.
Imprisonment
On September 7, 1995, Bernie S. pleaded guilty to possession of technology which could be used in a fraudulent manner. He was released on October 13, 1995. In January 1996, he was arrested for tampering with evidence, a violation of the conditions set for his probation. In March 1996, he received a sentence of 6 to 24 months.
While awaiting a parole hearing, he was charged by Bucks County, Pennsylvania prison officials with misuse of the telephone system when he received a call from Rob Bernstein, a reporter for Internet Underground. The charges could have added as much as nine months to his sentence. Bernie S. appealed the decision, and he filed a grievance for harassment and intimidation against the prison. While awaiting his release on parole, he was moved to a high-security facility, where he was attacked by a fellow inmate and suffered a broken arm and jaw.
After a letter writing campaign, a telephone campaign, and a physical demonstration outside the prison where he was housed, on September 13, 1996 Bernie S. was released on parole.
Notes
References
External links
2600's Off The Wall Radio Program
Haverford Township Police Department
The Secret Service Big Brother is Watchi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketDish | PocketDish was a discontinued line of media receivers for use with the Dish Network satellite television service. Using a Dish Network DVR receiver, PocketDish users could download television shows and other recorded video content from the DVR onto a PocketDish player. The devices could also download music, videos, and other media to the players from a computer, digital camera, or digital camcorder via a USB cable, or capture video and audio from any standard video or audio outlet when docked. The players were manufactured by Archos and marketed by Dish Network.
References
Telecommunications-related introductions in 2007
Portable hard drives
Dish Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semcat | SEMCAT is computer software used by insurance agents to increase their quoting efficiency. The name is an acronym for Single Entry Multiple Carrier Assistance Tool. The software allows agents to type quoting information once and have that information transfer to multiple insurance carriers' websites, instead of having to retype that information every time a quote is needed from a different carrier.
SEMCAT is headquartered in the Turbine Flats Project of Lincoln, Nebraska.
In June 2015, SEMCAT was acquired by Applied Systems, Inc. of University Park, Illinois.
External links
SEMCAT web site
Applied Acquisition Announcement
Financial software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty%20Russell | Rusty Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate, known for his work on the Linux kernel's networking subsystem and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Software development
Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel. Linus Torvalds referred to him as one of his "top deputies" in 2003.
In 2002, Russell announced the creation of the Trivial Patch Monkey, an email address for kernel hackers to submit trivial patches such as spelling errors, one-liners, documentation tweaks and other minor amendments to the code base. Adrian Bunk took over the role in 2005.
In 2006 Russell started work as the major developer of the "lguest" virtualisation system in the Linux Kernel. In October 2009, he was officially given a SAMBA Team T-shirt welcoming him to the Samba Team. In 2014 he started pettycoin, a cryptocurrency project.
Rusty Russell authored the majority part of Bitcoin's Lightning Network protocol specification.
Australian Free Software community
Russell conceived and conducted the Conference of Australian Linux Users at Monash University in 1999, the forerunner of the annual linux.conf.au conference series.
Russell is intellectual property advisor to Linux Australia and is active in advocating against and critiquing intellectual property elements of the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States. He was also a member of the Linux Australia committee in 2004.
Russell was the recipient of the inaugural (and eponymous) Rusty Wrench award for service to the free software community at linux.conf.au 2005.
Bibliography
References
"Popping Kernels", Interview in Linux Magazine (UK), 2001
Trivial Patch Monkey explained in Linux Journal, 2006
External links
Rusty's Linux Kernel Page
Rusty Russell's blog
Pettycoin project
Twitter profile
Living people
Australian computer programmers
Linux kernel programmers
Australian male bloggers
1973 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Newman%20%28TV%20personality%29 | Jeffrey William Newman OAM (born 4 February 1944) is a former Australian television presenter. He was the Seven Network's weather presenter in Perth from 1991 to 2009.
Media career
Newman began his media career with 6GE in Geraldton, Western Australia in early 1963, filling a vacancy left by the departure of Tony Barber. When STW-9 began broadcasting in 1965, Newman became host of The Jeff Newman Show.
After a disagreement with management, he crossed over to the rival TVW-7 in 1967 and worked in various positions within the industry, before joining Seven News in 1982 as a newsreader. He was the weather presenter on Seven News from 1991 to 2009. Newman was also known for his role as Western Australian presenter of It's Academic, a popular school quiz program that ran for ten years from 1969 to 1979 and later revived from 2001 and 2005. He also served as the main anchor host of the annual Perth Telethon between 1968- 2009.
His brother is Peter Newman, another well-known Perth media personality.
Retirement
Newman announced his retirement on 1 July 2009 and was replaced by Natalia Cooper. He did his last weather broadcast on 10 August 2009.
In 2013 he revealed to The West Australian that he was battling prostate cancer. He has since recovered.
Honours
Newman won five Logie Awards for the state's most popular male television personality. In 1994 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to charity and fundraising.
References
External links
Jeff Newmans last weather broadcast
1944 births
Living people
Australian game show hosts
Seven News presenters
People educated at Mount Lawley Senior High School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Vernon%20%28professor%29 | David Vernon (born 1958) is the Coordinator of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems and he is a research professor at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen. He is also a member of the management team of the RobotCub integrated working on the development of open-source cognitive humanoid robot.
Career
Vernon has held positions at Westinghouse Electric, Trinity College Dublin, the European Commission, the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Science Foundation Ireland, Etisalat University College, Etisalat University College, and the University of Skövde.
During his tenure as Head of School of Computer Science in the National University of Ireland Maynooth he was responsible for introducing the first stand-alone Computer Science degree programme to that university.
He has authored two and edited three books on computer vision and has published over eighty papers in the fields of Computer Vision, Robotics, and Cognitive Systems. His research interests include Fourier-based computer vision and enactive approaches to cognition.
Before moving to Bremen, he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Kigali, Rwanda, focusing on Masters programs by research in Computing fields.".
Cognitive system framework
Vernon's objective is to provide a framework to design cognitive system by elaborating a comprehensive and structured overview of the entire research area concerned with cognitive systems; referring to it as a pre-paradigmatic discipline.
He differentiates two global approaches: the cognitivist and the emergent. As the first one has its origins in cybernetics (1943-53) and is based on logical calculus immanent in nervous activity, the second one comes from the study of self-organized systems (1958), focuses on embodiment and can be refined in three subcategorizes: Connectionist, Dynamical, and Enactive.
While he is engaged in measuring up those four foregoing paradigms, he is also advocating the Enactive Systems Model to offer the framework by which successively richer orders of cognitive capability can be achieved, and by which the system itself will become part of an existing world of meaning (ontogeny) or shapes a new one (phylogeny).
Works
Machine Vision - Automated Visual Inspection and Robot Vision, Prentice Hall Europe, 1991.
Fourier Vision - Segmentation and Velocity Measurement Using the Fourier Transform, Springer, 2001.
A short Course on Cognitive Systems, version 2.0, University of Genoa, Italy
Artificial Cognitive Systems: A Primer, MIT Press, 2014.
References
External links
Vernon's Machine Vision
Artificial intelligence researchers
1958 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20B%C3%A9langer%20%28trade%20unionist%29 | Marc Bélanger (born 1950) is a labour union educator specializing in information technology and distance education via computer communications. He worked for the Workers' Activities Programme of the training centre of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Turin, Italy, from 2000-2008. He was head of the Programme from 2007-2008. The Programme operates the largest international union education school in the world. Its objective is to help build the capacities of unions in developing countries. The ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations.
Bélanger is now the producer and host of RadioLabour news at www.radiolabour.net
He has a degree in journalism from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, a Master's in media studies from The New School and a PhD in computer communications from Simon Fraser University. His Master's thesis was on "Marshall McLuhan and the art of work". The subject of his doctoral thesis is "Online collaborative learning and the training of union staff in developing countries".
Before joining the ILO in 2000 Bélanger worked for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). For the first ten years of his career at CUPE he was a communications specialist assigned to support negotiators and local unions during strikes. During the last 15 years he was director of the union's computer department. It was during his time in the computer department that he organized the first local area network in Canada and created SoliNet - the Solidarity Network. SoliNet, established in 1985, was the first union-owned and operated computer communications system. It was used for the first online labour education courses, including university-credit courses, and international workshops. It spawned a number of important labour-related projects including the labour news service
LabourStart. The website Bélanger created for SoliNet in 1993 (www.solinet.org) was the first labour website.
In 1995 Bélanger became the first person outside of the United States to earn a university degree (a Master's
in Media Studies) completely via computer communications through Connected Education's program with The New School headed by Paul Levinson. Also in 1995 he became a founding director of Canada's Telelearning Network of Centres of Excellence (a national research network concerning distance education via computer communications funded by the Canadian government).
He has written on labour and technology, labour education, the digital development of
African unions and the international labour movement. He teaches courses on computer
technology, both residentially and via computer communications, to unionists in developing
countries.
The SoliComm project, which Belanger headed, began operating in 2004. It is a labour search
engine and communications system. Its objective is to make the information on all the union and union-related web sites in the world easy to find and use. The system, which is a project of the Workers' Activities Program at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s%20method | In numerical analysis, Halley's method is a root-finding algorithm used for functions of one real variable with a continuous second derivative. It is named after its inventor Edmond Halley.
The algorithm is second in the class of Householder's methods, after Newton's method. Like the latter, it iteratively produces a sequence of approximations to the root; their rate of convergence to the root is cubic. Multidimensional versions of this method exist.
Halley's method exactly finds the roots of a linear-over-linear Padé approximation to the function, in contrast to Newton's method or the Secant method which approximate the function linearly, or Muller's method which approximates the function quadratically.
Method
Edmond Halley was an English mathematician who introduced the method now called by his name. Halley's method is a numerical algorithm for solving the nonlinear equation f(x) = 0. In this case, the function f has to be a function of one real variable. The method consists of a sequence of iterations:
beginning with an initial guess x0.
If f is a three times continuously differentiable function and a is a zero of f but not of its derivative, then, in a neighborhood of a, the iterates xn satisfy:
This means that the iterates converge to the zero if the initial guess is sufficiently close, and that the convergence is cubic.
The following alternative formulation shows the similarity between Halley's method and Newton's method. The expression is computed only once, and it is particularly useful when can be simplified:
When the second derivative is very close to zero, the Halley's method iteration is almost the same as the Newton's method iteration.
Derivation
Consider the function
Any root of f which is not a root of its derivative is a root of g; and any root r of g must be a root of f provided the derivative of f at r is not infinite. Applying Newton's method to g gives
with
and the result follows. Notice that if f′ (c) = 0, then one cannot apply this at c because g(c) would be undefined.
Cubic convergence
Suppose a is a root of f but not of its derivative. And suppose that the third derivative of f exists and is continuous in a neighborhood of a and xn is in that neighborhood. Then Taylor's theorem implies:
and also
where ξ and η are numbers lying between a and xn. Multiply the first equation by and subtract from it the second equation times to give:
Canceling and re-organizing terms yields:
Put the second term on the left side and divide through by
to get:
Thus:
The limit of the coefficient on the right side as is:
If we take K to be a little larger than the absolute value of this, we can take absolute values of both sides of the formula and replace the absolute value of coefficient by its upper bound near a to get:
which is what was to be proved.
To summarize,
References
External links
Newton's method and high order iterations, Pascal Sebah and Xavier Gourdon, 2001 (the site has a link to a Postscript versio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discover%20the%20Networks | Discover the Networks (originally Discover the Network) (DtN) is a website run by the David Horowitz Freedom Center that focuses on tracking individuals, groups, and the history of groups that are politically left wing. DtN was launched in 2004 and has a staff of about a dozen contributors. Its current Editor-in-Chief is David Horowitz; John Perazzo is the project's managing editor, and Richard Poe is its investigative editor. Discover the Networks is associated with FrontPage Magazine.
Overview
The project's contributors contend that the political left in the United States commonly applies a "deceptive public presentation" of itself that conceals a network of affiliations and shared political views with "radical agendas". It views these as socialist, environmentalist and "anti-American" causes. The website is meant to be the conservative analog of left-leaning websites that compile lists that include conservatives such as those created by Southern Poverty Law Center and Media Matters.
The website has been criticized for including leftists on the same list as terrorists. Horowitz, who wrote about the alleged connection between these groups in his book Unholy Alliance, says "that groups who despise one another might actually be working closely together, maybe without even knowing it." It's not what they are for but that they are "linked by anti-Americanism" that accounts for their being in alignment on the political front. Dean Saitta objects to being described as a supporter of Ward Churchill.
Database of profiles
DtN currently maintains a database of prominent leftist personalities in academia, politics, and the media as well as leftist interest groups. It assembles and publishes data on the financial backers of left wing personalities and organizations. Much of their research focuses upon individuals with financial connections to groups that espouse communism and socialism as well as Palestinians and their supporters, but the group is also concerned with critics of the USA PATRIOT Act, advocates of social justice (which the website refers to as a "post-Communist terminology for socialism and communism"), and members or supporters of labor unions.
When first launched the website was criticized for a jump page picturing entertainment celebrities such as Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand adjacent to radical Muslim terrorists. The site now divides the pictures on the jump page into distinct categories.
Contributors
The website houses the articles of historian Ron Radosh.
The website houses the articles of undercover investigative journalist Lee Kaplan.
References
External links
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
David Horowitz
American conservative websites
Internet properties established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRLB-LD | KRLB-LD channel 29.1 is a low-power religious television station in Richland, Washington, owned by Radiant Light Broadcasting, and affiliated with the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
KRLB-LD programming can also be seen on KWWO-LP channel 32.1 Walla Walla, Washington. However, for continuity reasons, the signal is masked as channel 29.1. KRLB is seen on channel 7 on Charter Communications in the Mid-Columbia Basin.
Prior to the digital transition, KRLB-LP was broadcast on analog channel 49. As of March 17, 2009, KRLB-LP broadcasts only in digital.
These stations are not related to WRLM in Canton, Ohio, whose licensee name is the similar "Radiant Light Ministries".
History
The Call Letters KRLB, previously belonged to 99.5 FM Lubbock, Texas, now known as KQBR-FM. Before it went to the FM band, it was KRLB-AM 580. Station started out as a daytime directional KDAV-AM, Lubbock, Texas at its inception.
External links
Radiant Light Broadcasting
RLB-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1984
RLB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoassociative%20memory | Autoassociative memory, also known as auto-association memory or an autoassociation network, is any type of memory that is able to retrieve a piece of data from only a tiny sample of itself. They are very effective in de-noising or removing interference from the input and can be used to determine whether the given input is “known” or “unknown”.
In artificial neural network, examples include variational autoencoder, denoising autoencoder, Hopfield network.
In reference to computer memory, the idea of associative memory is also referred to as Content-addressable memory (CAM).
The net is said to recognize a “known” vector if the net produces a pattern of activation on the output units which is same as one of the vectors stored in it.
Background
Traditional memory
Traditional memory stores data at a unique address and can recall the data upon presentation of the complete unique address.
Autoassociative memory
Autoassociative memories are capable of retrieving a piece of data upon presentation of only partial information from that piece of data. Hopfield networks have been shown to act as autoassociative memory since they are capable of remembering data by observing a portion of that data.
Iterative Autoassociative Net
In some cases, an auto-associative net does not reproduce a stored pattern the first time around, but if the result of the first showing is input to the net again, the stored pattern is reproduced. They are of 3 further kinds — Recurrent linear auto-associator, Brain-State-in-a-Box net, and Discrete Hopfield net. The Hopfield Network is the most well known example of an autoassociative memory.
Hopfield Network
Hopfield networks serve as content-addressable ("associative") memory systems with binary threshold nodes, and they have been shown to act as autoassociative since they are capable of remembering data by observing a portion of that data.
Heteroassociative memory
Heteroassociative memories, on the other hand, can recall an associated piece of datum from one category upon presentation of data from another category. For example: It is possible that the associative recall is a transformation from the pattern “banana” to the different pattern “monkey.”
Bidirectional associative memory (BAM)
Bidirectional associative memories (BAM) are artificial neural networks that have long been used for performing heteroassociative recall.
Example
For example, the sentence fragments presented below are sufficient for most English-speaking adult humans to recall the missing information.
"To be or not to be, that is _."
"I came, I saw, _."
Many readers will realize the missing information is in fact:
"To be or not to be, that is the question."
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
This demonstrates the capability of autoassociative networks to recall the whole by using some of its parts.
References
External links
Autoassociation
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variadic | In computer science, an operator or function is variadic if it can take a varying number of arguments; that is, if its arity is not fixed.
For specific articles, see:
Variadic function
Variadic macro in the C preprocessor
Variadic template
Variadic templates in C++11
Programming language theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTLD | PTLD is an abbreviation that may refer to:
PTLD (gene)
Pseudo top-level domain, in computer network nomenclature
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, types of lymphomas affecting transplant patients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JRO | JRO may refer to:
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), American physicist known for his work with the Manhattan Project
Jet and Replication Objects library; see Microsoft Data Access Components
Jicamarca Radio Observatory, an observatory
Kilimanjaro International Airport, in Tanzania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus%20americana%20%27Penn%20Treaty%27 | The American Elm cultivar Ulmus americana 'Penn Treaty' was raised by the Plant Sciences Data Center of the American Horticultural Society. Plants under that name were propagated by the Morris Arboretum, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from grafts made in 1945 from a tree at Haverford College, itself a graft, planted in 1840, from the Shackamaxon Treaty Elm – the tree under which William Penn signed his treaty with Native Americans in 1682 (felled by a storm in 1810) in what was later named Penn Treaty Park, Kensington, Pa.
Description
The first elm at Haverford, planted in 1840, measured 90 ft (28 m) in height, with a crown diameter of 120 ft (37 m) 100 years later. Its surviving scion in Haverford College Arboretum is an irregularly-branched elm, unlike most selected varieties of American elm.
Pests and diseases
The 1840 Haverford elm was felled in 1977 after it had succumbed to Dutch elm disease.
Cultivation
Cuttings from the 1840 Haverford elm were taken in 1915 by C. Cresson Wistar, an alumnus of Haverford College, and seven scions were planted behind Barclay Hall in the arboretum. Although all but one of the resultant trees have also died, the survivor still thrives (2017). In addition, a specimen raised from seed survives on Founder's Green, Haverford College, and is perpetuated by selfed seedlings gathered by the arboretum staff in autumn. Katharine Stanley Nicholson in her Historic American trees (1922) recorded other 19th-century plantings of scions of the original tree.
The tree is not known to be in cultivation beyond North America, nor is it in commerce.
Accessions
None known.
References
American elm cultivar
Ulmus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20Sam%20Cruise | Contact Sam Cruise is a computer game created by David Reidy with graphics by Keith Warrington for the ZX Spectrum and released by Microsphere in 1986. Using a similar engine to Skool Daze, this game charted the exploits of a player-controlled private detective called Sam Cruise.
Plot
The player controls Sam Cruise, a private investigator in an unnamed city in an unnamed year. Sam has received a call from a woman called Lana requesting he meet her in a hotel room in town. "So began", says Cruise in the game's opening "the case of the Bali Budgie" (a play on the title of the noir film The Maltese Falcon).
Gameplay
The game is made in the style of a 1930s detective movie and Sam needs to solve a murder. Play takes place in a scrolling two-dimensional environment consisting of part of a city in the United States.
Although the player is given considerable freedom to explore the game-area the solution to the game is a linear progression through various puzzles. The main character is usually given hints on how to complete the next stage via in-game phone calls. Players are able to enter buildings (although the view remains outside the building with Sam visible through the windows - there is no cutaway), switch lights on and off, open doors and collect money (by somersaulting onto the bills blowing down the street). Sam can also don disguises for various parts of his mission and at times will also have to evade police - for example by pulling out building fuses to cut the lights at the start of the game when he finds a dead body. Sam carries a limited amount of money in dollar bills and this ticks away slowly with the game ending if Sam's money-level reaches zero.
If Sam finds himself arrested by the police he is taken to a police station and deposited in a cell for a period of time before being released on bail which will reduce the amount of money he has. Sam can also find himself bodily picked up by gangsters and hurled from the top of a building (one of the favoured method of disposal by the gangsters in this game). Although this will not kill him, he will become unconscious and have been mugged (i.e. lost more money) when he regains consciousness. Sam also has a limited number of first aid packs (depicted as red crosses on the screen display) that are used-up if he is shot by gangsters. If these run out, the game ends.
External links
GameFAQs
Disassembly
1986 video games
Action-adventure games
Europe-exclusive video games
Detective video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games set in the 1930s
Video games set in the United States
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParaView | ParaView is an open-source multiple-platform application for interactive, scientific visualization. It has a client–server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets, and generates level of detail (LOD) models to maintain interactive frame rates for large datasets. It is an application built on top of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) libraries. ParaView is an application designed for data parallelism on shared-memory or distributed-memory multicomputers and clusters. It can also be run as a single-computer application.
Summary
ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView is known and used in many different communities to analyze and visualize scientific data sets. It can be used to build visualizations to analyze data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView's batch processing capabilities.
ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of terascale as well as on laptops for smaller data.
ParaView is an application framework as well as a turn-key application. The ParaView code base is designed in such a way that all of its components can be reused to quickly develop vertical applications. This flexibility allows ParaView developers to quickly develop applications that have specific functionality for a specific problem domain.
ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel and single processor systems. It has been successfully tested on Windows, macOS, Linux, IBM Blue Gene, Cray Xt3 and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses Visualization Toolkit (VTK) as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using Qt.
The goals of the ParaView team include the following:
Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application.
Support distributed computation models to process large data sets.
Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface.
Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards.
History
The ParaView project started in 2000 as a collaborative effort between Kitware, Inc. and Los Alamos National Laboratory through funding provided by the US Department of Energy ASCI Views program. The first public release was announced in October 2002.
Independent of ParaView, Kitware developed a web-based visualization system in December 2001. This project was funded by Phase I and II SBIRs from the US Army Research Laboratory and eventually became the ParaView Enterprise Edition. PVEE significantly contributed to the development of ParaView's client/server architecture.
In September 2005, Kitware, Sandia National Labs and CSimSoft (now Coreform LLC) started the development of ParaView 3.0. ParaView 3.0 was released in May 2007. In June 2013, ParaView 4.0 was released, this |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Wiseman | Neil Ernest Wiseman (19 May 1934 – 13 June 1995) was a British computer scientist. Wiseman's pioneering research in computer graphics began in 1965, and resulted in a number of inventions and patents. These included a pen-following screen menu, which anticipated the pop-up menu, and one of the first systems for distributed Computer Graphics. His work brought him three patents, over 70 research publications, and more than 40 students who gained PhDs. In 1986 the Computer Laboratory appointed him to a personal Readership in computer graphics.
Education and early life
Born in Cowlinge near Newmarket, Suffolk, Wiseman joined the Pye electronics company in Cambridge as an apprentice in 1950. 1954–1957 he studied for a BSc (Eng) degree in electrical engineering at Queen Mary College, University of London. During this time he started working for the Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge during his vacations, e.g. on the construction of a high speed photo-electric paper tape reader. His ability recognised, arrangements were made for him to spend two years at the University of Illinois to study for a master's degree in electrical engineering (awarded 1959). Here he worked as a research assistant in the Digital Computer Laboratory on the design of circuits for the new Illinois computer. On his return to Britain his call-up for National Service was deferred to enable him to take employment with Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire – on behalf of the Ministry of Aviation. He worked for two years at Elliott Brothers as research engineer in charge of the advanced circuits and logical techniques group in the Data Processing Laboratory. It was here that he started working with tunnel diodes, which showed great promise as a high-speed technology.
Career
In 1961 after ten years of intermittent contact Wiseman joined the staff of the University Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge, now the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, as Chief Engineer. He continued working with tunnel diodes and constructed a prototype store capable of running at 250 megahertz, a phenomenal speed for the time. The arrival of one of the world's first mini-computers, the DEC PDP-7 and its type 340 vector display, presented new challenges. Wiseman designed a high-speed data-link to connect this to the main Titan computer, which probably counts as the world's first distributed system. It proved a valuable research tool for work on computer aided design, both for mechanical components and for his own work on electronic circuits. The Rainbow integrated CAD system combined electronic design, computer graphics, data structures and the control of change in large bodies of data. He also began work on screen editors for text and later a television camera was connected to the PDP-7.
In 1970 Wiseman was approved for a PhD through the submission of published work and was appointed to a University Lectureship. He was immediately seconded to the Cambridge University Press wher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural%20mediation | Cultural mediation describes a profession that studies the cultural differences between people, using the data in problem solving.
It is one of the fundamental mechanisms of distinctly human development according to cultural–historical psychological theory introduced by Lev Vygotsky and developed in the work of his numerous followers worldwide.
Introduction
Vygotsky investigated child development and how this was guided by the role of culture and interpersonal communication. Vygotsky observed how higher mental functions developed through social interactions with significant people in a child's life, particularly parents, but also other adults. Through these interactions, a child came to learn the habits of mind of her/his culture, including speech patterns, written language, and other symbolic knowledge through which the child derives meaning and affects a child's construction of his or her knowledge. This key premise of Vygotskian psychology is often referred to as "cultural mediation". The specific knowledge gained by a child through these interactions also represented the shared knowledge of a culture. This process is known as internalization.
Example
The easiest way to understand mediation is to start with an example and follow with the Vygotskian principles behind it.
At a North American girl's fourth birthday, she sits at the table with friends and family. As the candles on her birthday cake are lit and it is placed on the table, the child gains a feeling of deeply felt joy. This is not only because she knows the cake is sweet and she likes sweet food, nor that the candles' sparkling is pleasing to her eyes. While these would be sufficient reason to arouse an emotional response in an ape, there are mental processes in a four-year-old that extend well beyond this. She patiently waits as her family and friends sing "Happy Birthday to You". The joy is not in the cake itself but in the cake's specific meaning to her. It is a sign that today is a special day for her in which she is the center of attention and that her friends and family are praising her. It's also a sign that she is bigger and as such has higher status among her peers. It's not just a cake, it is a birthday cake and, more specifically, it is her own. The true significance of the birthday cake then, is not in its physical properties at all, but rather in the significance bestowed upon it by the culture the daughter is growing into. This is not restricted to such artifacts as a birthday cake. A classroom, a game of soccer, a fire engine are all first and foremost cultural artifacts from which children derive meaning.
This example can help us understand Vygotsky's approach to human development. Like animals, we have lower mental functions tied closely to biological processes. In our birthday cake example, a toddler may well have reached out to take a handful of cream from the cake as soon as she saw it and the four-year-old may have been tempted to do the same. In humans, howe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar%20display | A radar display is an electronic device that presents radar data to the operator. The radar system transmits pulses or continuous waves of electromagnetic radiation, a small portion of which backscatter off targets (intended or otherwise) and return to the radar system. The receiver converts all received electromagnetic radiation into a continuous electronic analog signal of varying (or oscillating) voltage that can be converted then to a screen display.
Modern systems typically use some sort of raster scan display to produce a map-like image. Early in radar development, however, numerous circumstances made such displays difficult to produce. People developed several different display types.
Oscilloscopes
Early radar displays used adapted oscilloscopes with various inputs. An oscilloscope generally receives three channels of varying (or oscillating) voltage as input and displays this information on a cathode ray tube. The oscilloscope amplifies the input voltages and sends them into two deflection magnets and to the electron gun producing a spot on the screen. One magnet displaces the spot horizontally, the other vertically, and the input to the gun increases or decreases the brightness of the spot. A bias voltage source for each of the three channels allows the operator to set a zero point.
In a radar display, the output signal from the radar receiver is fed into one of three input channels in the oscilloscope. Early displays generally sent this information to either X channel or Y channel to displace the spot on the screen to indicate a return. More modern radars typically used a rotating or otherwise moving antenna to cover a greater area of the sky, and in these cases, electronics, slaved to the mechanical motion of the antenna, typically moved the X and Y channels, with the radar signal being fed into the brightness channel.
A-Scope
The original radar display, the A-scope or A-display, shows only the range, not the direction, to targets. These are sometimes referred to as R-scopes for range scope. A-scopes were used on the earliest radar systems during World War II, notably the seminal Chain Home (CH) system.
The primary input to the A-scope was the amplified return signal received from the radar, which was sent into the Y-axis of the display. Returns caused the spot to be deflected downward (or upward on some models), drawing vertical lines on the tube. These lines were known as a "blip" (or "pip"). The X-axis input was connected to a sawtooth voltage generator known as a time base generator that swept the spot across the display, timed to match the pulse repetition frequency of the radar. This spread out the blips across the display according to the time they were received. Since the return time of the signal corresponds to twice the distance to the target divided by the speed of light, the distance along the axis directly indicates the range to any target. This was usually measured against a scale above the display.
Chain Home sig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Station%20of%20the%20Cross | The Station of the Cross is a network of Catholic radio stations owned and operated by Holy Family Communications. It is an affiliate of the EWTN Global Catholic Radio network.
Current stations
Former stations
Notes
External links
The Station of the Cross Homepage
American radio networks
Christian mass media companies
Christian radio stations in the United States
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%20approach | The Lotus approach may refer to:
The Lotus principle, a foundation of international law
IBM Lotus Approach database software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXML | SXML is an alternative syntax for writing XML data (more precisely, XML Infosets) as S-expressions, to facilitate working with XML data in Lisp and Scheme. An associated suite of tools implements XPath, SAX and XSLT for SXML in Scheme and are available in the GNU Guile implementation of that language.
Textual correspondence between SXML and XML for a sample XML snippet is shown below:
Compared to other alternative representations for XML and its associated languages, SXML has the benefit of being directly parsable by existing Scheme implementations. The associated tools and documentation were praised in many respects by David Mertz in his IBM developerWorks column, though he also criticized the preliminary nature of its documentation and system.
Example
Take the following simple XHTML page:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>An example page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="greeting">Hi, there!</h1>
<p>This is just an ">>example<<" to show XHTML & SXML.</p>
</body>
</html>
After translating it to SXML, the same page now looks like this:
(*TOP* (@ (*NAMESPACES* (x "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml")))
(x:html (@ (xml:lang "en") (lang "en"))
(x:head
(x:title "An example page"))
(x:body
(x:h1 (@ (id "greeting")) "Hi, there")
(x:p "This is just an \">>example<<\" to show XHTML & SXML."))))
Each element's tag pair is replaced by a set of parentheses. The tag's name is not repeated at the end, it is simply the first symbol in the list. The element's contents follow, which are either elements themselves or strings. There is no special syntax required for XML attributes. In SXML they are simply represented as just another node, which has the special name of @. This can't cause a name clash with an actual "@" tag, because @ is not allowed as a tag name in XML. This is a common pattern in SXML: anytime a tag is used to indicate a special status or something that is not possible in XML, a name is used that does not constitute a valid XML identifier.
In SXML strings there are two characters that must be escaped, the " string delimiter (with \") and the \ escape symbol itself (with \\). XML also requires escaping two, & and < (with & and < respectively).
References
External links
SXML Tools Tutorial by Dmitry Lizorkin
SXML package for Racket
Markup languages
Technical communication
Scheme (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith%20Worker%20Justice | Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) was a nonprofit and nonpartisan interfaith advocacy network comprising more than 60 worker centers and faith and labor organizations that advanced the rights of working people through grassroots, worker-led campaigns and engagement with diverse faith communities and labor allies. IWJ affiliates took action to shape policy at the local, state and national levels.
, IWJ was governed by a 36-member board of directors.
IWJ closed at the end of 2021.
History of IWJ
Kim Bobo founded Interfaith Worker Justice in 1991 as Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues. Bobo had previously been director of organizing at Bread for the World and an instructor at the Midwest Academy. In 1989, Bobo became involved with workers' rights campaigns for coal miners. She was startled to find that almost no religious organizations had labor liaisons. She started an informal network of religious leaders to share information about campaigns for worker justice that year.
In 1991, Bobo founded the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues. It was an all-volunteer group led by Bobo and four influential Chicago religious leaders.
In 1996, using a $5,000 inheritance from her grandmother, Bobo launched the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice. The organization initially was run out of her home.
By 1998, the organization had 29 affiliates throughout the country. The group changed its name to Interfaith Worker Justice in 2005, by which time it had grown to 59 local affiliates and a full-time staff of 10.
In 2015, Kim Bobo stepped down as executive director at IWJ in order to expand on her social justice work as the new executive director for the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy. Rudy López, the former Political Director for the Center for Community Change took Bobo’s place as the new executive director at IWJ. After a brief transition period, Laura Barrett, the former executive director at Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ), then became the new executive director.
IWJ was active on a number of worker's rights and worker justice issues. It took a lead role in criticizing Wal-Mart for forcing employees to work off the clock, not providing affordable or comprehensive health insurance, and refusing to pay an adequate wage. In 2006, the group sued the United States Department of Labor to obtain the names of migrant agricultural workers who had been victims of unpaid overtime. It was also active in supporting higher wages for workers and the use of unionized laborers in the reconstruction of New Orleans, and condemned the importation of lower-paid illegal immigrants to displace American workers.
Near the end of its existence, IWJ included a national network of more than 60 local interfaith groups, worker centers and student groups, making it the leading national organization working to strengthen the religious community's involvement in issues of workplace justice.
Issues focus
Wage theft
Interfai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20Indonesia | Statistics Indonesia (), is a non-departmental government institute of Indonesia that is responsible for conducting statistical surveys. Its main customer is the government, but statistical data is also available to the public. Annual surveys cover areas including national and provincial socio-economics, manufacturing establishments, population and the labour force.
Established in 1960 as the Central Bureau of Statistics (), the institute is directly responsible to the president of Indonesia. Its functions include providing data to other governmental institutes as well as to the public and conducting statistical surveys to publish periodic statistics on the economy, social change and development. Statistics Indonesia also assists data processing divisions in other public offices to support and to promote standard statistical methods.
History
In February 1920, the Director of Agriculture and Trade () of the government of the Dutch East Indies, established the Statistical Office based in Bogor. In March 1923, the Commission for Statistics was formed to represent members of each department. It was tasked with planning actions to ensure the achievement of unity in statistical activities in Indonesia. On 24 September 1924, the name of the institution was changed to (CKS) or the Central Statistics Office, and the institution was moved to Jakarta. In June 1942, the Government of Japan reactivated statistical activities focused on meeting the needs of war or military. CKS was renamed . On 26 September 1960 the government of Indonesia enacted Law No. 7 of 1960 on Statistics replacing . Law Number 16 of 1997 concerning Statistics replaced previous laws, and based on it, the Central Bureau on Statistics became the Central Statistics Agency.
Census
Based on Republic of Indonesia Laws No. 6 of 1960 on the Census, Statistics Indonesia organizes a census every 10 years
Demography
A demographic census has been organized every year ending in "0" after 1961 namely in 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020.
Economy
An economic census is held every year ending in "6", namely 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016.
Agriculture
An agricultural census is held every year ending in "3", namely 1963, 1973, 1983, 1993, 2003, and 2013.
See also
List of national and international statistical services
References
External links
Official site
Indonesia
Government of Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pvserver | pvServer is a 3GPP/2 standards compliant multimedia server that provides streaming and broadcast services to mobile devices. pvServer is developed by PacketVideo Network Solutions , a wholly owned company of Alcatel-Lucent. pvServer delivers multiple streams of live and pre-recorded audio / video content (MPEG-4, H.263 and H.264, Enhanced aacPlus, etc.) to devices with a 3GPP-compatible player. Besides RTSP, It also supports HTTP and RTMP streaming, all with rate-adaptive capability.
Overview
The pvServer consists of the following modules:
The Streaming Module, which is a Unix-based "software appliance" for standards compliant multimedia streaming via RTSP/RTP connections to wireless clients.
The Download Module, which is a Unix-based "software appliance" for standards compliant multimedia download via HTTP connection to wireless clients. This is commonly known as HTTP Streaming.
The Integration Services Module, which is a Java-based platform for multimedia service development and integration.
Major Customers
T-Mobile
Telus
Orange
External links
PacketVideo Network Solutions - PacketVideo Network Solutions's official site
Alcatel-Lucent - Alcatel-Lucent official site
Servers (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s%20the%20Story | What's the Story is an American television panel show broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from July 25, 1951, to September 23, 1955, and aired in eleven different timeslots.
Originally hosted by Walter Raney, he was replaced in September 1951 by Walter Kiernan, who hosted until June 20, 1953. Al Capp took over from the following week until sometime in the Fall, when John McCaffery took the reins through the show’s end in 1955.
The series is most notable for being the last regular series to air on the DuMont network, after the game show Have a Heart (ended June 14, 1955) and It's Alec Templeton Time (ended August 26, 1955). After the finale of What's the Story on September 23, DuMont aired only a few sporting events and ceased broadcasting altogether with the final broadcast of Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena on August 6, 1956.
Gameplay
A panel of well-known newspaper columnists and/or other celebrities were asked to try to identify famous events from clues given by the moderator and his assistants. Among the regular panelists were Robert Sullivan of the New York Daily News, Jimmy Cannon of the New York Post, and Harriet Van Horne of the New York World-Telegram. Sullivan later co-hosted the DuMont series Meet the Boss (1952–53).
Episode status
Although many DuMont shows survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Paley Center for Media, and Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, there are no copies of What’s the Story at any of these archives.
Only one episode is known to exist, and is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress. This episode (from January 14, 1954) features McCaffery, network founder Allen B. DuMont, and television pioneer Thomas T. Goldsmith discussing the future of color television.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
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 edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1951 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
1950s American game shows
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%27s%20Greatest%20Games | NFL's Greatest Games is a series of television programs that air on NFL Network, ESPN and related networks. They are condensed versions of some of the most famous games in the history of the National Football League, using footage and sound captured by NFL Films, as well as original interviews. All installments produced before 2015 are 90 minutes in length, and are presented with a title in respect to the game being featured. Starting in 2015, new installments produced run for either 30 minutes, 60 minutes, or 90 minutes, and no longer have a title beyond the actual game itself that is featured.
The series began with Super Bowl III, the New York Jets' 16–7 upset of the Baltimore Colts. ESPN debuted the program in 1999, on the 30th anniversary of the original game. More telecasts followed in the ensuing months.
In 2007, NFL Network unveiled Super Bowl Classics, a version of this program using complete videotaped games.
The "NFL's Greatest Games" banner is also occasionally used for episodes of the 1970s public television series The Way It Was that covered classic NFL games prior to 1958.
List of episodes
Super Bowls
Super Bowl III: New York Jets vs. Baltimore Colts ("When the Game Changed")
Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts vs Dallas Cowboys ("The Blunder Bowl")
Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys ("Battle of Champions")
Super Bowl XXIII: Cincinnati Bengals vs. San Francisco 49ers ("Isn't that John Candy?")
Super Bowl XXV: New York Giants vs. Buffalo Bills ("Wide Right")
Super Bowl XXXII: Green Bay Packers vs. Denver Broncos ("This One's For John")
Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams vs. Tennessee Titans ("The Longest Yard")
Super Bowl XXXVI: St. Louis Rams vs. New England Patriots ("A Dynasty Born")
Super Bowl XXXVIII: Carolina Panthers vs. New England Patriots ("Lonestar Shootout")
Super Bowl XLII: New York Giants vs. New England Patriots ("Not Quite Perfect”, aka “Helmet Catch”)
Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals ("The Best Ever")
Super Bowl XLIV: New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts ("Saints Marching In Miami")
Super Bowl XLV: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Green Bay Packers ("Leader of the Pack")
Super Bowl XLVI: New York Giants vs. New England Patriots ("The Forgotten 4th Quarter")
Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers ("The Blackout Bowl")
Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks ("Legacy")
Super Bowl LI: New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons ("The Ultimate Comeback", aka "28–3")
Super Bowl LII: Philadelphia Eagles vs. New England Patriots ("Philly Special")
Super Bowl LV: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers ("The Bucs Stops Here")
Super Bowl LVI: Los Angeles Rams vs. Cincinnati Bengals ("Champions in La La Land")
Super Bowl LVII: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles ("Duel in the Desert")
Other games
1958 NFL Championship Game: Baltimore Colts at New York Giants ("The Greatest Game Ever Played")
1967 NFL Championship Game: Dallas Cowboys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Music%20Weekly | New Music Weekly is a nationally distributed trade magazine for the US radio and music industries. Following the tradition of Bill Gavin and the Gavin Report, New Music Weekly interprets data from the Spins Tracking System. Weekly editorial features include highlights of the top singles impacting radio and "spotlights" of new music from the Top40/Pop, Country, AC/Hot, and College music genres.
The New Music Weekly editorial staff is composed of composer and producer Larry Weir, Billboard magazine, NMW publisher and veteran radio promoter Paul Loggins who also holds the position as Executive Producer of NMW's New Music Awards, and contributing writer Chuck Dauphin.
New Music Awards
The New Music Awards are hosted annually by New Music Weekly, acknowledging the accomplishments of new artists and musicians, radio stations and programmers, music directors, and industry executives in the main music genres.
References
Music magazines published in the United States
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1997
Magazines published in Los Angeles
Professional and trade magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome%20Animated%20Monster%20Maker | Awesome Animated Monster Maker was a children's creative play computer video game program on CD-ROM, produced by ImaginEngine and published by Houghton-Mifflin's interactive Division in 1994. It was one of the first pieces of software made for young children, especially in the 2-5 age range.
Game overview
In Monster Maker, users create a monster by sticking together animated parts. Each part has several states to it: happy, sad, angry, etc. When a monster is happy or sad, all of its various parts animate together in the new state.
Once a monster is created, one can play a variety of games and activities with it, such as making music, getting clothing and accessories, or printing it out.
Monster Maker was designed for creative play, like a paint program. There were no overarching goals other than to have fun.
Shortly after the first version, ImaginEngine released a follow-up called the Ultra Edition. It added four mini-games one can play with a monster, including judo and a water skiing race.
Technical features
Monster Maker was a cross-platform Hybrid CD-ROM that worked in both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers. For Windows machines, it would work on 3.11, 95, 98, and NT. For Macs, it had 68k and PowerPC versions.
Monster Maker was programmed in C++. It was developed on Windows NT and then ported to CodeWarrior on the Mac.
Monster Maker ran in four megs of memory. The animation engine was locked at 12 frames per second, regardless of the speed of the computer. It required an Intel 80486 processor and a video card that could do 640x480x8. Under Windows, it relied on the WinG library for its blitter engine.
Monster Maker's blitter engine used a custom sprite codec that was highly optimized for unique content aspects of monster parts. Each part in Monster Maker used a special palette that had four "part colors" and four "sticky colors". The part colors could be changed during blit to allow the user to change the color of parts on the screen. The sticky color could also be changed during the blit, and it would take on the part color of whatever the part was stuck to. For example, an arm could take on the color of whatever body it was stuck to.
The blitter had many advanced features for its time, including the ability to scale parts to an arbitrary size up or down and the ability handle translucency. It used a version of Bresenham's line algorithm to compute the scaling factors, similar to the approach discussed in the Graphics Gems series.
The engine also had the ability to recompile collections of part hierarchies into single composite parts on the fly, which was how the game was able to keep so much animation on the screen.
A sequel, Awesome Animated Monster Maker Math, was released in 1998.
References
Classic Mac OS games
Windows games
1994 video games
Video games developed in the United States
ImaginEngine games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%20Kirk%20McKusick | Marshall Kirk McKusick (born January 19, 1954) is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD UNIX, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine. He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk".
McKusick received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and two M.S. degrees (in 1979 and 1980 respectively) and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
McKusick lives in California with Eric Allman, his partner since graduate school, whom he married in October, 2013.
BSD
McKusick started with BSD by virtue of the fact that he shared an office at Berkeley with Bill Joy, who spearheaded the beginnings of the BSD system.
Some of his largest contributions to BSD have been to the file system. He helped to design the original Berkeley Fast File System (FFS). In the late 1990s, he implemented soft updates, an alternative approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage, in FFS, and a revised version of Unix File System (UFS) known as "UFS2". The magic number used in the UFS2 super block structure reflects McKusick's birth date: #define FS_UFS2_MAGIC 0x19540119 (as found in /usr/include/ufs/ffs/fs.h on FreeBSD systems). It is included as an easter egg.
He was also primarily responsible for creating the complementary features of filesystem snapshots and background fsck (file system check and repair), which both integrate closely with soft updates. After the filesystem snapshot, the filesystem can be brought up immediately after a power outage, and fsck can run as a background process.
The Design and Implementation series of books are regarded as very high-quality works in computer science. They have been influential in the development of the BSD descendants. The BSD Daemon, often used to identify BSD, is copyrighted by Marshall Kirk McKusick.
Bibliography
S. Leffler, M. McKusick, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, Addison-Wesley, January 1989, . German translation published June 1990, . Japanese translation published June 1991, (out of print).
S. Leffler, M. McKusick: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System Answer Book, Addison-Wesley, April 1991, . Japanese translation published January 1992,
M. McKusick, K. Bostic, M. Karels, J. Quarterman: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, April 1996, . French translation published 1997, International Thomson Publishing, Paris, France, .
McKusick, 1999 Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix (from the book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution )
M. McKusick, George Neville-Neil: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, July 2004,
M. McKusick, George Neville-Neil, R. Watson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20California%20communities%20with%20Hispanic%20majority%20populations%20in%20the%202010%20census | The following is a list of California cities, towns, and census-designated places in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2010 Census.
Note: Although Hispanics or Latinos form 50% or more of the population, they are still outnumbered by non Hispanics in terms of population. The following places highlighted in bold Indicates that Hispanics or Latinos both form 50% or more of the population and where Hispanics outnumber any specific non-Hispanic racial group.
Places with over 100,000 people
Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
Places with between 10,000 and 25,000 people
Places with between 5,000 and 10,000 people
Places with fewer than 5,000 people
See also
List of U.S. communities with Hispanic-majority populations in the 2010 census
List of Texas communities with Hispanic majority populations in the 2000 census
List of U.S. counties with Hispanic- or Latino-majority populations
References
Hispanic and Latino American culture in California
Hispanic and Latino demographics in the United States
Hispanic
California-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail%20drop | Tail drop is a simple queue management algorithm used by network schedulers in network equipment to decide when to drop packets. With tail drop, when the queue is filled to its maximum capacity, the newly arriving packets are dropped until the queue has enough room to accept incoming traffic.
The name arises from the effect of the policy on incoming packets. Once a queue has been filled, the router begins discarding all additional datagrams, thus dropping the tail of the sequence of packets. The loss of packets causes the TCP sender to enter slow start, which reduces throughput in that TCP session until the sender begins to receive acknowledgements again and increases its congestion window. A more severe problem occurs when datagrams from multiple TCP connections are dropped, causing global synchronization; i.e. all of the involved TCP senders enter slow-start. This happens because, instead of discarding many segments from one connection, the router would tend to discard one segment from each connection.
See also
Random early detection
Weighted random early detection
Further reading
.
Routing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEGECS | EEGECS, or European Education in Geodetic Engineering, Cartography and Surveying, is a European, European Union-funded consortium, or network, of institutes of higher learning aimed at enhancing dialogue and exchange of information, and to move towards the creation of a "European Area of Geodetic Engineering, Cartography and Surveying".
The initiative towards formation of EEGECS came from the Polytechnical University of Valencia. It started operations in 2002 and comprised 100 institutions from 28 countries. EU-funding for its activities lasted for three years, plus one more year dedicated to dissemination activities. The network consists of six working groups.
References
External links
EEGECS website
Working groups
College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Education in Europe
Geodesy organizations
Technology consortia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH46 | Asian Highway 46 (AH46) is a route of the Asian Highway Network within India, from Kharagpur in West Bengal to Dhule in Maharashtra. The route is part of old National Highway 6.
This highway connects Dhule-Jalgaon-Akola-Amravati-Nagpur-Bhandara-Durg-Bhilai-Raipur-Saraipali-Bargarh-Sambalpur (Odisha)- Debagarh -
Kendujhar-Baharagora (Jharkhand)-Kharagpur (West Bengal).
Route in India
Length of AH46 is 1514 km. Various cities and towns in the Indian states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra lie on AH46 as follows:
West Bengal State
Kharagpur
Dhulia, Akola, Amravati, Nagpur, Raipur, Sambalpur, 2Root Cattuk, Bhadrak Khadkpur
Odisha State
Bargarh
Sambalpur
Jharpokharia, Baripada
Kendujhargarh
Debagarh
Chhattisgarh State
Saraipali
Raipur
Bhilai
Rajnandgaon
Maharashtra State
Bhandara
Nagpur
Amravati
Akola
Khamgaon
Nandura
Malkapur
Bhusawal
Jalgaon
Dhule
Constituent highways
AH46 is located entirely within India. National highways have been renumbered since 2010.
New numbered highways
Kharagpur - Deogarh section is part of National Highway 49 (India)
Deogarh - Dhule section is part of National Highway 53 (India)
Old numbers
Under old numbers, AH46 was part of old NH6 India.
Junctions
near Kharagpur, starting point.
near Nagpur.
near Dhule, end point.
References
Asian Highway Network
Roads in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM%20Express | COM Express, a computer-on-module (COM) form factor, is a highly integrated and compact computer that can be used in a design application much like an integrated circuit component. Each module integrates core CPU and memory functionality, the common I/O of a PC/AT, USB, audio, graphics (PEG), and Ethernet. All I/O signals are mapped to two high density, low profile connectors on the bottom side of the module. COM Express employs a mezzanine-based approach. The COM modules plug into a baseboard that is typically customized to the application. Over time, the COM Express mezzanine modules can be upgraded to newer, backwards-compatible versions. COM Express is commonly used in Industrial, military, aerospace, gaming, medical, transportation, Internet of things, and general computing embedded applications.
History
The COM Express standard was first released in 2005 by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). It defined five module types, each implementing different pinout configurations and feature sets on one or two 220-pin connectors. It also defined 2 module sizes (later expanded to 4) to serve more applications while maintaining compatibility within each module type. COM Express is used in railway, industrial, and military applications. There are also efforts for a Rugged COM Express specification through VITA.
Types
There are 8 different pin outs defined in the specification. The most commonly used pin outs are Type 6 and Type 10. The latest pin-out added in revision 3.0 of the COM Express specification (available from www.picmg.org) is Type 7. The Type 7 provides up to four 10 GbE interfaces and up to 32 PCIe lanes, making COM Express 3.0 appropriate for data center, server, and high-bandwidth video applications. COM Express Rev 3.0 removed legacy Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Type 4, and Type 5, recommending that new designs should use Type 6, 7 or 10.
Maximum available interfaces for the defined types:
(*1) Option on previously allocated SATA2 and SATA3 pins. Implementor specific.
(*2) DDI can be adapted to DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI or SDVO (legacy, no longer supported for types 6, 7 and 10) in the carrier board.
Legend: PEG - PCI Express Graphics. Legacy - not recommended for new designs.
Size
The specification defines 4 module sizes:
Mini:
Compact:
Basic:
Extended:
Specification
The COM Express specification is hosted by PICMG. It is not freely available but a paper copy may be purchased for $150USD from the PICMG website. However, the COM Express Design Guide is free to download.
The original revision 1.0 was released July 10, 2005.
Revision 3.0 (PICMG COM.0 R3.0) was released in March 2017.
COM Express also specifies an API to control embedded functionalities like watchdog timer or I2C. This is a separate document which is freely available (EAPI 1.0).
It also defines a carrier board eeprom to hold configuration information. This is also a separate and free available document (EeeP R1.0).
See also
ETX
XT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Socket%20Tunneling%20Protocol | Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a form of virtual private network (VPN) tunnel that provides a mechanism to transport PPP traffic through an SSL/TLS channel. SSL/TLS provides transport-level security with key negotiation, encryption and traffic integrity checking. The use of SSL/TLS over TCP port 443 (by default; port can be changed) allows SSTP to pass through virtually all firewalls and proxy servers except for authenticated web proxies.
SSTP servers must be authenticated during the SSL/TLS phase. SSTP clients can optionally be authenticated during the SSL/TLS phase and must be authenticated in the PPP phase. The use of PPP allows support for common authentication methods, such as EAP-TLS and MS-CHAP.
SSTP is available for Linux, BSD, and Windows.
SSTP is available on Windows Vista SP1 and later, in RouterOS since version 5.0, and in SEIL since its firmware version 3.50. It is fully integrated with the RRAS architecture in these operating systems, allowing its use with Winlogon or smart-card authentication, remote-access policies and the Windows VPN client. The protocol is also used by Windows Azure for Point-to-Site Virtual Network.
SSTP is intended only for remote client access, it generally does not support site-to-site VPN tunnels.
SSTP suffers from the same performance limitations as any other IP-over-TCP tunnel. In general, performance will be acceptable only as long as there is sufficient excess bandwidth on the un-tunneled network link to guarantee that the tunneled TCP timers do not expire. If this becomes untrue, performance falls off dramatically. This is known as the "TCP meltdown problem".
SSTP supports user authentication only; it does not support device authentication or computer authentication.
Packet structure
The following header structure is common to all types of SSTP packets:
Version (8 bits) – communicates and negotiates the version of SSTP that is used.
Reserved (7 bits) – reserved for future use.
C (1 bit) – control bit indicating whether the SSTP packet represents an SSTP control packet or an SSTP data packet. This bit is set if the SSTP packet is a control packet.
Length (16 bits) – packet length field, composed of two values: a Reserved portion and a Length portion.
Reserved (4 bits) – reserved for future use.
Length (12 bits) – contains the length of the entire SSTP packet, including the SSTP header.
Data (variable) – when control bit C is set, this field contains an SSTP control message. Otherwise, the data field would contain a higher-level protocol. At the moment, this can only be PPP.
Control message
The data field of the SSTP header contains an SSTP control message only when the header's Control bit C is set.
Message type (16 bits) – specifies the type of SSTP control message being communicated. This dictates the number and types of attributes that can be carried in the SSTP control packet.
Attributes count (16 bits) – specifies the number of attributes appended to the SSTP co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH45 | AH45 is a route of the National Highway Network of India, running from in Kolkata to Krishnagiri. This route is composed of NH 16 and part of NH 48 from Chennai to Krishnagiri.
Route
The route shares a large portion of various Indian National Highways; namely NH 16 and NH 48.
It passes through Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Baripada and ends at Jharpokharia, where it meets NH 16 in Odisha. In Andhra Pradesh, it passes through most of the coastal towns in ten coastal districts and covers the cities of Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Tuni, Rajahmundry, Eluru, Vijayawada, Mangalagiri, Guntur, Chilakaluripet, Ongole and Nellore. In Tamil Nadu, it passes through Gummidipundi in Tiruvallur district and enters Chennai.
NH 16 has a total length of and passes through the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Route length in states:
West Bengal:
Odisha:
Andhra Pradesh:
Tamil Nadu:
NH 48 has a total length of and passes through the state of Tamil Nadu connecting Chennai & Krishnagiri near Karnataka Border.
References
Asian Highway Network
Roads in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozie%20Boo%21 | Ozie Boo! is a French 3D-animated television series for preschoolers of 2 to 6 years old; produced by the French production company
Cyber Group Studios, a company based in Paris, France. In France, the first season aired on September 4, 2006 on France 5, while the second season went launched on Canal J.
The show aired internationally on Playhouse Disney in Latin America, Germany and Italy, RTP2 and Canal Panda in Portugal, Hop! in Israel and Yumurcak TV in Turkey.
The first and second season have a length of 6 minutes. In 2010, a spin-off known as "Ozie Boo! Save The Planet" (Ozie Boo! Protège ta planète) started to air on Tiji and follows the 5 penguins, who learn about helping the environment in a classroom with their teacher, Mr. Pelican. The show was produced with the participation of CNC and WWF.
Synopsis
Ozie Boo tells the story of five baby penguins, four boys and a girl, who learn to cohabit in a joyous and friendly way and have many adventures in their home, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Characters
The Ozieboos are five baby penguins:
Ed (green)
Fred (orange)
Ned (blue)
Nelly (pink)
Ted (red)
Other characters include:
Rajah, the baby Siberian tiger
Mikky and Nikky the polar bear cubs
Mel the starfish
Wally and Polly, the baby belugas
Sky the albatross
Mr. Pelican
External links
Ozie Boo! website
Ozie Boo! Season 1 on the Cyber Group Studios website
Ozie Boo! Season 2 on the Cyber Group Studios website
Ozie Boo! Save The Planet on the Cyber Group Studos website
French children's television series
French animated television series
Computer-animated television series
Animated television series about children
Animated television series about penguins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilization%20distribution | A utilization distribution is a probability distribution giving the probability density that an animal is found at a given point in space. It is estimated from data sampling the location of an individual or individuals in space over a period of time using, for example, telemetry or GPS based methods.
Estimation of utilization distribution was traditionally based on histograms but newer nonparametric methods based on Fourier transformations, kernel density and local convex hull methods have been developed.
The typical application for this distribution is estimating the home range distribution of animals. According to Lichti & Swihart (2011), kernel density methods provided, in many cases, less biased home-range area estimates compared to convex hull methods.
See also
Home range
Local convex hull
References
Types of probability distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20decision%20support%20system | A spatial decision support system (SDSS) is an interactive, computer-based system designed to assist in decision making while solving a semi-structured spatial problem. It is designed to assist the spatial planner with guidance in making land use decisions. A system which models decisions could be used to help identify the most effective decision path.
An SDSS is sometimes referred to as a policy support system, and comprises a decision support system (DSS) and a geographic information system (GIS). This entails use of a database management system (DBMS), which holds and handles the geographical data; a library of potential models that can be used to forecast the possible outcomes of decisions; and an interface to aid the users interaction with the computer system and to assist in analysis of outcomes.
Process
An SDSS usually exists in the form of a computer model or collection of interlinked computer models, including a land use model. Although various techniques are available to simulate land use dynamics, two types are particularly suitable for SDSS. These are cellular automata (CA) based models and Agent based models (ABM).
An SDSS typically uses a variety of spatial and nonspatial information, like data on land use, transportation, water management, demographics, agriculture, climate, epidemiology, resource management or employment. By using two or more known points in history the models can be calibrated and then projections into the future can be made to analyze different spatial policy options. Using these techniques spatial planners can investigate the effects of different scenarios, and provide information to make informed decisions. To allow the user to easily adapt the system to deal with possible intervention possibilities an interface allows for simple modification to be made.
References
External links
International Cartographic Association (ICA), the world body for mapping and GIScience professionals
Maps module integrated into Decision Support System
Spatial Decision Support Consortium professional network and knowledge portal based on a spatial decision support ontology
Information systems
Decision support systems
Geographic information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocalLink%2080%20%28BaltimoreLink%29 | LocalLink 80 is a bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. LocalLink 80 is part of the high frequency network of the local bus system. The route consists of a leg originating in Downtown Baltimore and goes on to serve the Garrison Boulevard corridor in the northwest of the city. Route 80 and its predecessor, route 91, has carried some of the highest ridership out of Baltimore's local bus network throughout its history. The line was the first in the city to be assigned articulated buses, which are now used to meet the higher capacity requirements of the frequent lines.
History
Route 91 started operating in 1987 after being split from the long Route 19. It has followed essentially the same route throughout its lifetime since then, only with the modification of service operating via the Rogers Avenue Metro Subway Station full-time. The line has faced various proposals for consolidation into other lines, but all have been fought.
The route replaced Route 91 in 2017 as part of the BaltimoreLink overhaul of the bus network. The 91 had the second-highest farebox recovery rate of all MTA bus lines.
The bus route is the successor to the 16 Madison Avenue and 31 Garrison Boulevard streetcar lines.
Origin
The No. 31 Streetcar started operating in 1917. In 1952, it was absorbed by the No. 19 Streetcar, which in 1956 was converted to a bus. The no. 19 bus continued to operate from the Harford Road corridor to Garrison Boulevard for more than 30 years. The route was extended to Sinai Hospital when it absorbed the short lived Bus Route 90, which had operated from 1959 to 1960 between the Belvedere loop to Sinai.
In 1992, in conjunction with the opening of the Central Light Rail line, MTA proposed to eliminate Route 91 and provide the service on other routes, primarily Route 13. However, this plan was scrapped as a result of public outcry.
In 2005, as part of the Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative, a comprehensive overhaul plan for the region's transit system, MTA proposed once again to discontinue Route 91, and for the service to be absorbed by other routes, primarily by modifying Route 15 to Sinai Hospital. This plan was scrapped as a result of public outcry, especially because no bus service would have been provided on Eutaw Place in Bolton Hill.
In 2006, as part of phase II of GBBI, MTA proposed for Route 91 to remain on its current route at a reduced frequency, and for a new Route M-5 to operate from the Mt. Washington Light Rail Stop to Penn-North Metro Subway Station with overlapping service between Pimlico and Penn-North. Such a plan is yet to be implemented, and GBBI was canceled in 2007.
BaltimoreLink
In 2015, Governor Larry Hogan announced an initial proposal for an overhaul to the local bus system in Baltimore which constituted a drastic transformation of the network. This proposal included 12 color-coded high frequency routes and lower frequency routes which did not serve all of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20H.%20Ahl | David H. Ahl (born May 17, 1939) is an American author who is the founder of Creative Computing magazine. He is also the author of many how-to books, including BASIC Computer Games, the first computer book to sell more than a million copies.
Career
After earning degrees in electrical engineering and business administration, while completing his Ph.D. in educational psychology, Ahl was hired by Digital Equipment Corporation as a marketing consultant in 1969 to develop its educational products line. He edited EDU, DEC's newsletter on educational uses of computers, that regularly published instructions for playing computer games on minicomputers. Ahl also talked DEC into publishing a book he had put together, 101 BASIC Computer Games. During the 1973 recession, DEC cut back on educational product development and Ahl was dismissed.
Before he even received his last cheque, he was rehired into a DEC division dedicated to developing new hardware. This group became caught up in building a computer that was smaller than any yet built, intending to bring the new product into new markets such as schools. DEC built a machine combining a PDP-8 with a VT50 terminal, and another that crammed a PDP-11 into a small portable chassis. When it was presented to DEC's Operations Committee, the engineering side loved it but the sales side was worried it would cut into the sales of their existing lines. The decision ultimately fell to Ken Olsen, who finally stated that "I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own." With that, the project was dead.
Frustrated, Ahl left DEC in 1974, and started Creative Computing, one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution. For the next decade Creative Computing covered the whole spectrum of hobbyist, home, and personal computing, and although Ahl sold the publication to Ziff Davis in the early 1980s, he continued in his capacity as Editor-in-Chief.
In 2010, David Ahl helped re-publish a Special 25th and 30th Anniversary Edition of two of his classic programming books, specifically for a new development environment for beginners, called Microsoft Small Basic.
In June 2022, Ahl released everything he had ever written, from prose to software, into the public domain.
References
External links
Basic Computer Games: Microsoft Small Basic Edition — Special 30th Anniversary Edition Edited by David H. Ahl
David Ahl's Small Basic Computer Adventures — Special 25th Anniversary Edition by David H. Ahl & Philip Conrod
David H. Ahl Biography from Who's Who In America at David Ahl's personal site
Basic Computer Games by David Ahl
More Basic Computer Games by David Ahl
Big Computer Games by David Ahl
David H. Ahl's Homepage
1939 births
Living people
American publishers (people)
Tepper School of Business alumni
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%E2%80%93machine%20interaction | Man-machine interaction (MMI) may refer to:
Control of machines in general using devices like steering wheel, automobile pedal, or button
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20EMC%20Isilon | Dell EMC Isilon is a scale out network-attached storage platform offered by Dell EMC for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data. It provides a cluster-based storage array based on industry standard hardware, and is scalable to 50 petabytes in a single filesystem using its FreeBSD-derived OneFS file system.
An Isilon clustered storage system is composed of three or more nodes. Each node is a server integrated with proprietary operating system software called OneFS (based on FreeBSD), which unifies a cluster of nodes into a single shared resource.
Isilon Systems
Isilon Systems was a computer hardware and software company founded in 2001 by Sujal Patel and Paul Mikesell, a 1996 graduate of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. It was headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It sold clustered file system hardware and software for digital content and other unstructured data to a variety of industries.
Isilon Systems became a publicly traded company on December 16, 2006. By this time, Isilon was selling its products indirectly through a channel partner program that included over 100 resellers and distributors, as well as directly through a field sales force. Its customers included NBC Universal, Cedars-Sinai, Kelman Technologies, and Kodak, among others.
Poor initial performance of the new public company led to management changes in 2007 that brought back founder Sujal Patel as CEO. In 2008, details emerged around an internal audit of Isilon System’s financials that led to a restatement of earnings. Just before the company would have announced four profitable quarters in a row – the first profitable year in the company’s history – Isilon Systems was acquired by EMC Corporation in November 2010 for $2.25 billion.
Isilon after merger
EMC said that with its acquisition of Isilon, it would be better able to provide storage infrastructure for private and public cloud environments, with a focus on so-called big data, like gene sequencing, online streaming, and oil and natural gas seismic studies. At the time of acquisition, the list of Isilon’s clients had grown to include Sony, XM Radio, LexisNexis, Facebook, MySpace, Adobe, and several major movie studios and TV networks.
On November 10, 2015, EMC announced an expansion of its Isilon NAS portfolio with a scaled-down, software storage system for remote locations, a cloud migration application and high-availability upgrades for Isilon OneFS. The two software additions, IsilonSD Edge and CloudPools, will be available alongside the new version of OneFS in 2016. They are part of the vendor's data lakes strategy for storing and managing unstructured data in large repositories. The new offerings will, according to one analyst, deliver a data lake-ready platform to enterprises with high-speed data analytics, and are aimed at three aspects of the Data Lake, the edge, the core, and the cloud.
On May 8, 2017, Dell EMC announced a new line of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syhunt | Syhunt is a World Wide Web network security software company with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Syhunt was founded in August 2003 by Felipe Daragon, a network security specialist.
History
The company's operations are currently centered on the development of software relating to the assessment of web servers and web applications.
In 2003, Syhunt released a web application security assessment software known as Sandcat, which focuses on Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and the SANS Institute vulnerabilities. Syhunt has also produced a number of security software utilities, including worm removal tools (during worm outbreaks), server hardening and log analysis tools.
Today the company is still engaged in the development of web application security assessment software and also participates the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) initiative.
See also
Penetration testing
References
External links
Computer security software companies
Software companies of Brazil
Companies based in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Information technology consulting firms
Software companies established in 2003
Consulting firms established in 2003
Brazilian brands
2003 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Saturday%20Starship | The Saturday Starship is a British Saturday morning children's series that was produced by Central Television and aired on the ITV network. There was one series of 21 editions between 1 September 1984 and 26 January 1985 hosted by Tommy Boyd, Bonnie Langford and Nigel Roberts. It was a follow-up to The Saturday Show and TISWAS. Chris Baines presented one of the first environmental strands on children's TV in the UK, and this led to The Ark series in 1988.
External links
The Saturday Starship on Paul Morris' SatKids
1984 British television series debuts
1985 British television series endings
1980s British children's television series
English-language television shows
ITV children's television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPN%20%28disambiguation%29 | Upn or UPN may refer to:
Television
UPN, a defunct American television network
UPN Kids, its children's programming brand from 1995 until 1999
Education
National Pedagogic University (Mexico) (Spanish: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional), Mexico City, Mexico
Private University of the North (Spanish: Universidad Privada del Norte), Trujillo, Peru
Universities of National Development "Veteran", Indonesia
University of National Development "Veteran" East Java, Surabaya
University of National Development "Veteran" Jakarta, Jakarta
University of National Development "Veteran" Yogyakarta, Sleman
Politics
Navarrese People's Union (Spanish: Unión del Pueblo Navarro), a political party in Spain
Nigerien Progressive Union (French: Union progressiste nigérienne), a former political party in Niger
Unity Party of Nigeria, a now-defunct political party from the Nigerian Second Republic
Other uses
Unique Pupil Number, held in the National Pupil Database in the U.K.
Universal Product Number, a subset of the UPC barcode used for medical products
Universal Principal Name, an object in Subject Alternative Name extension in X.509 certificate
UPN (notation) or Reverse Polish notation, a mathematical notation in which operators follow their operands
Upn, the symbol for the chemical element unpentnilium
UP-N, the abbreviation for the Union Pacific / North Line, a Metra line in the Chicago metropolitan area
Uruapan International Airport (IATA: UPN), Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico
Ústav pamäti národa, National Memory Institute of Slovakia
User Principal Name, a Windows Active Directory username in an email address format |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istaby%20Runestone | The Istaby Runestone, listed in the Rundata catalog as DR 359, is a runestone with an inscription in Proto-Norse which was raised in Istaby, Blekinge, Sweden, during the Vendel era (–790).
Inscription
Transliteration into Latin characters
AP
AQ
B
Transcription into Proto-Norse
AP
AQ
B
English translation
AP In memory of Hariwulfar. Haþuwulfar, Heruwulfar's son,
AQ Haþuwulf(a)r, Heruwulfar's son, in memory of Hariwulfar
B wrote these runes.
Interpretation
The Istaby, Stentoften Runestone and Gummarp Runestone inscriptions can be identified with the same clan through the names that are mentioned on them. The names have alliterative first name element combined with a lycophoric second element that represent an aristocratic naming tradition common among chieftains. The Björketorp Runestone lacks names and is raised some tens of kilometers from the others. However, it is beyond doubt that the Björketorp runestone is connected to them, because in addition to the special runic forms, the same message is given on the Stentoften Runestone. Of these, on stylistics grounds, the Istaby runestone may be the oldest.
The name Hariwulfa is a combination of hari meaning "warrior" and wulafa "wolf," while the haþu of Haþuwulfz means "battle" and the heru of Heruwulfar, when combined in personal names, means "sword." The latter name also has a suffix indicating paternal descent, so the name Heruwulfar in full means "of the family of Sword-Wolf." A shortened form of the name Hariwulfa survived into the Viking Age and is attested in the inscription on the Hærulf Runestone. It has been suggested that the assignment of such lycophoric names is related to ritualistic practices and religious wolf-symbolism used in the initiation of young warriors.
The Istaby runestone is currently located at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. The stone has a Danish Rundata catalog number as Blekinge was part of the historic Denmark.
See also
List of runestones
References
Sources
Jacobsen, Lis & Moltke, Erik: Danmarks Runeindskrifter. 3rd tome. 1941.
External links
Photograph of stone in 1999 - Swedish National Heritage Board
6th-century inscriptions
7th-century inscriptions
8th-century inscriptions
Haþuwulf's runestones
Proto-Norse language
Runestones in Blekinge
Elder Futhark inscriptions
Vendel Period |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANIP | Jewish Academic Network for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, JANIP, was formed by the two progressive Zionist organizations Meretz USA (now Partners for Progressive Israel) and Ameinu.
JANIP was conceived as a group of North American academics who support an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
As the mission statement states "The mission of JANIP is to bring together scholars, teachers, and administrators who reject the increasingly polarized debate surrounding the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. Our goal is to bring a voice into the conversation – out of our identification with and commitment to Israel – that supports a negotiated two-state solution, an end to occupation, and Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and bilaterally agreed-upon settlements in the West Bank. Specifically, we believe in:
The right of both peoples to self-determination within recognized, secure borders
The concept of civil society in which conflicts are resolved without violence; terrorism or other extra-legal activities to which both the Palestinians and the Israelis are held strictly accountable
Direct negotiations and mutual accommodation as the route to a true and enduring peace between the two societies.
Many, if not all, campus-based debates dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have been reduced to a simplified choice: either uncompromisingly pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, with little or no consideration of the competing rightful claims of the other side. As a result, more critical perspectives and dialogue have become virtually impossible.
We believe that it is our responsibility as scholars and teachers to inject a voice of realism and moderation back into the public debate through public statements, op-ed articles, position papers, conferences, and other activities and to support other academics, students and members of the community who share these views."
JANIP sponsored two Pathways to Peace international academic conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
References
Meretz USA
JANIP
Ameinu, Labor Zionist Alliance
Pathways to Peace Conference
Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%20Asmara%20earthquake | The 1913 Asmara earthquake took place outside Asmara, Eritrea on 27 February. The data as to the magnitude of the earthquake is imprecise due to the frequency and magnitude of aftershocks, but a maximum felt intensity of VI (Strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale was recorded at Asmara. The "felt" area of the earthquake extended into Northern Ethiopia as well as Kassala in Sudan. The earthquake caused significant damage in Asmara (VI), Keren (IV), Massawa (V) and Adi Ugri (V).
See also
List of earthquakes in 1913
List of earthquakes in Eritrea
References
1913 Asmara
1913 earthquakes
1913 disasters in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Turner%20%28game%20programmer%29 | Steve Turner is a former computer game musician and designer. His development team, Graftgold, mostly wrote for games published by Hewson Consultants during the 1980s.
The first computer he bought was a ZX80 which had to be assembled by hand. At school he was a member of a computing club where he learnt the Algol 60 programming language. During the 1970s he added Cobol to his repertoire from a government funded training course. He went on to a programming job in the Civil Service. Turner was 30 when he decided to move into games development. His first game was written whilst he was still employed as a programmer and he handed his notice in when he received his first royalty cheque.
He also wrote a series of articles for ZX Computing between August 1986 and January 1987, called The Professional Touch. Andrew Hewson had previously written for the magazine but got too busy to do it and Turner replaced them.
List of games
For Hewson Consultants:
3D Space Wars (1983)
3D Seiddab Attack (1984)
3D Lunattack (1984)
Avalon (1984)
Dragontorc (1985)
Astroclone (1985)
Uridium (1986) (music)
Alleykat (1986) (music)
Quazatron (1986)
Ranarama (1987)
Zynaps (1987) (music)
Magnetron (1988)
References
External links
World of Sinclair entry, with links to interviews from ZX Computing and Sinclair User.
Graftgold
Living people
Video game musicians
British video game designers
Video game programmers
British computer programmers
Place of birth missing (living people)
1954 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper%20%28disambiguation%29 | A flapper was a trendy young woman in the 1920s.
Flapper may also refer to:
Flapper (company), a Brazilian transportation network company for aviation
The Flapper, a 1920 American film directed by Alan Crosland
Flapper valve, a part of some flush toilet mechanisms
Flappers (TV series), a Canadian sitcom produced by the CBC in the late 1970s
Flapper, a rock-climbing-related avulsion injury
Flapper!, a play by Tim Kelly and Bill Francoeur
Fire flapper, a fire suppression device
QP:flapper, a two-member illustrator unit consisting of Japanese artists Tometa Ohara and Koharu Sakura |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homofonia | Homofonia was the first gay interest TV talk-show in Poland in 2006–2008 on iTV network. It was dedicated entirely to the gay community. The topics of the show ranged from "Is gay OK?" to "Gay Art". The program was somehow controversial, even before the first episode aired. The most notable guests so included Maciej Nowak and Krystian Legierski.
See also
Gay life in Poland
External links
Polish LGBT-related television shows
Polish television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren%20Rowse | Darren Rowse (known online as Problogger; born 27 April 1972) is an Australian blogger, speaker, consultant and founder of several blogs and blog networks, including ProBlogger.net and digital-photography-school.com. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Career
In November 2002, he worked as a part-time minister, a custodian for an online department store, and a casual laborer. Rowse started LivingRoom.org.au, a blog about living in Australia; religion (mainly the emerging church movement); politics; and other topics that he found interesting.
Rowse contributes to around 20 different blogs, although he is only actively blogging on two, including topic-specific blogs such as the Athens Olympics and the Michael Jackson court case, which he runs with other bloggers.
His two main personal blogs are 'Digital Photography School', which features photography tips, and ProBlogger, which features tips on blogging. These two blogs get around 85,000–100,000 page views a day and over $20,000 in total ad revenue a month.
As of 22 May 2009, ProBlogger was listed as number two on Technorati's most favorited blogs list and number 40 on the most linked to blog.
In 2006, Rowse was awarded the Best Web Development Weblog blog award in 2006 for ProBlogger.
Rowse is a co-founder of b5media, the blog network he founded in September 2005 with fellow bloggers Jeremy Wright, Shai Coggins and Duncan Riley. The blog network claims to have over 300 blogs, and one of the largest new media networks in the world with one million page views a day in 2006.
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Rowse was named in the Forbes Web Celebrity List in 2007.
In 2008, Rowse co-authored the book 'ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income' (Wiley) and founded TwiTip—a blog dedicated to Twitter tips. He also has a Twitter page. Rowse is co-founder of the Third Tribe and founder of the Problogger Paid community.
In 2011, Rowse was a speaker at the Blogopolis blogger conference in Melbourne.
Rowse has also held two Problogger events in Melbourne.
Outside of blogging
Rowse is married to 'V', and they have three sons. He is a former church minister and is still active in the local religious community. He also enjoys photography, reading, food, wine, and movies.
References
Bibliography
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
Bloggers from Melbourne
1972 births
Australian male bloggers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20flag%20sort | An American flag sort is an efficient, in-place variant of radix sort that distributes items into buckets. Non-comparative sorting algorithms such as radix sort and American flag sort are typically used to sort large objects such as strings, for which comparison is not a unit-time operation.
American flag sort iterates through the bits of the objects, considering several bits of each object at a time. For each set of bits, American flag sort makes two passes through the array of objects: first to count the number of objects that will fall in each bin, and second to place each object in its bucket. This works especially well when sorting a byte at a time, using 256 buckets. With some optimizations, it is twice as fast as quicksort for large sets of strings.
The name American flag sort comes by analogy with the Dutch national flag problem in the last step: efficiently partition the array into many "stripes".
Algorithm
Sorting algorithms in general sort a list of objects according to some ordering scheme. In contrast to comparison-based sorting algorithms, such as quicksort, American flag sort is based on directly comparing the bytes (numerical representation) of the underlying objects. In-place sorting algorithms, including American flag sort, run without allocating a significant amount of memory beyond that used by the original array. This is a significant advantage, both in memory savings and in time saved copying the array.
American flag sort works by successively dividing a list of objects into buckets based on the first digit of their base-N representation (the base used is referred to as the radix). When N is 3, each object can be swapped into the correct bucket by using the Dutch national flag algorithm. When N is larger, however, objects cannot be immediately swapped into place, because it is unknown where each bucket should begin and end. American flag sort gets around this problem by making two passes through the array. The first pass counts the number of objects that belong in each of the N buckets. The beginning of each bucket is then computed as the sum of sizes of the preceding buckets. The second pass puts each object into the correct bucket.
American flag sort is most efficient with a radix that is a power of 2, because bit-shifting operations can be used instead of expensive exponentiations to compute the value of each digit. When sorting strings using 8- or 7-bit encodings such as ASCII, it is typical to use a radix of 256 or 128, which amounts to sorting character-by-character.
Performance considerations
It is worth noting that for pure English alphabet text, the counts histogram is always sparse. Depending on the hardware, it may be worth clearing the counts in correspondence with completing a bucket (as in the original paper.) Or it may be worth maintaining a max and min active bucket, or a more complex data structure suitable for sparse arrays. It is also important to use a more basic sorting method for very small |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Dot | Green Dot may refer to:
Green Dot Bystander Intervention, a bystander education approach
Green Dot Corporation, a cash deposit and payment card network issuing Discover, MasterCard, and Visa cards
Green Dot (India), a label in India for vegetarian food.
Green Dot Public Schools, a not-for-profit organization which operates ten public schools in Los Angeles
Green Dot (symbol), the license logo of Duales System Deutschland, an industry-funded packaging recycling system deployed first in Germany and later also some other European countries
A name for 154.6 MHz in the business band service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAN | AAAN may refer to any of the following:
Arab American Action Network, a Chicago community center
AETN All Asia Networks Pte. Ltd., the joint venture of A+E Networks and Astro All Asia Networks
Astro All Asia Networks, the company that operates the Astro satellite network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinas%20%28newspaper%29 | Pinas is a published weekly by the Sonshine Media Network International located at 3rd floor, ACQ Tower Building, Sta. Rita Street, EDSA, Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati.
It has been reformatted by Tagalog version of the Pinas newspaper since March 2006.
Newspapers published in Metro Manila
Sonshine Media Network International
Weekly newspapers published in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChessMachine | The ChessMachine was a chess computer sold between 1991 and 1995 by TASC (The Advanced Software Company). It was unique at the time for incorporating both an ARM2 coprocessor for the chess engine on an ISA card which plugged into an IBM PC and a software interface running on the PC to display a chess board and control the engine.
The ISA card was sold with a CPU running at either 16 MHz or 32 MHz, and 128 KB, 512 KB, or 1 MB of onboard memory for transposition tables. This made economic sense at the time of introduction because mainstream PCs were only running from 10 MHz to 25 MHz.
Two engines were sold with the card: The King by Johann de Koning and Gideon by Ed Schröder. Gideon was famed for winning two World Computer Chess Championships on this hardware. The King later became the engine used in the popular Chessmaster series of chess programs.
TASC later incorporated the technology into a dedicated unit, sold from 1993 to 1997. There were two models, the R30 and R40, running at 30 MHz and 40 MHz respectively, and having 512 KB and 1 MB of transposition tables, respectively.
The SmartBoard, a wooden sensory board, was connected to the units, which were in tiny boxes approximately the size of chess clocks. They were only sold with The King chess engine.
This was the end of the era of strong dedicated chess computers, and these two models are acknowledged as the strongest dedicated chess computers that were ever sold. At the height of its strength, the R30 attained a rating over 2350 on computer rating lists, higher than any other dedicated unit. According to the SSDF rating list, the R30 held its own against its contemporary programs running a Pentium-90 MHz and won against other dedicated units.
References
Swedish Chess Computer Association (SSDF) - R30 entry
Gideon on the Chessmachine
Schachcomputer.info - The Wiki for chess computers
Chess computers
ARM-based home computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXAQ-TV | DXAQ-TV, channel 43, is the flagship television station of Philippine religious television network Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI). Its studios are located at the Kingdom of Jesus Christ compound, Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway, Sasa, Davao City, while its transmitter is located at Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 19 (503.143 MHz)
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Davao City
Davao del Sur
Davao del Norte
Secondary areas
Portion of Davao de Oro
See also
DWAQ-TV
DXRD
Sonshine Media Network International
Sonshine Media Network International
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Television stations in Davao City
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinc%20%28protocol%29 | Tinc is an open-source, self-routing, mesh networking protocol and software implementation used for compressed and encrypted virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Wessel Dankers, and released as a GPL-licensed project.
Platforms
Tinc is available on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, iOS (jailbroken only), Android with full support for IPv6.
Future goals
The authors of Tinc have goals of providing a platform that is secure, stable, reliable, scalable, easily configurable, and flexible.
Embedded technologies
Tinc uses OpenSSL or LibreSSL as the encryption library and gives the options of compressing communications with zlib for "best compression" or LZO for "fast compression".
Projects that use tinc
Freifunk has tinc enabled in their routers as of October 2006.
OpenWrt has an installable package for tinc.
OPNsense, an open source router and firewall distribution, has a plugin for Tinc
pfSense has an installable package in the 2.3 release.
Tomato variants Shibby and FreshTomato include Tinc support.
NYC Mesh uses tinc to connect parts of the mesh over the public internet that would be otherwise out of range.
See also
stunnel, encrypts any TCP connection (single port service) over SSL
OpenVPN, an open source SSL VPN solution
VTUN, an open source SSL VPN solution that can bridge Ethernet
References
External links
Protocol Documentation
Internet protocols
Routing protocols
Internet Protocol based network software
Virtual private networks
Mesh networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%20Chung | Natalie Chung (born 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian news anchor and journalist for the Réseau de l'information television network (now Ici RDI), a Canadian French language news channel owned by the Société Radio-Canada. She was anchor of RDI's weekend newscast Aujourd'hui and Le Monde ce soir.
Biography
Chung was born to a Korean father, Joseph Chung, a former university teacher, and a mother named Lucie Lépine, from the province of Quebec. Although born in Toronto, she grew up in Montreal, Quebec.
In her early life, her difference becomes an issue as she was often reminded that she comes from elsewhere while she perceives herself as a Quebecer only.
Noting an identity crisis, her father decided to take his teenage daughter for the first time to his country of origin. In 1985, she began her undergraduate studies in Korean literary program at the Seoul University in South Korea and attended Concordia University in Montreal.
She is the news anchor and journalist for the Réseau de l'information television network (now Ici RDI), a Canadian French language news channel owned by the Société Radio-Canada. She was anchor of RDI's weekend newscast Aujourd'hui and Le Monde ce soir.
References
External links
Réseau de l'Information (RDI)
Société Radio-Canada (SRC)
RDI archives on newscast schedule program 2004
1962 births
Canadian people of Korean descent
Canadian television journalists
Franco-Ontarian people
Journalists from Toronto
Living people
Canadian women television journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXAQ-AM | DXAQ (1404 AM) was a radio station owned and operated by Sonshine Media Network International. It formerly served as the radio arm of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ from its inception in 1989 to 2010, when it permanently went off the air, with some of its programs absorbed by sister station DXRD.
References
Radio stations established in 1989
Radio stations disestablished in 2010
Radio stations in Davao City
Sonshine Media Network International
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNV | KCNV (89.7 FM) is a listener-supported public radio station broadcasting a Classical music format. Licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, the station is owned by Nevada Public Radio and features programming from American Public Media, National Public Radio and Public Radio International. KCNV airs nationally syndicated shows in the evening and on weekends, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. The NPR program From the Top, showcases young classical musicians. Pipedreams features organ music. And Sunday Baroque, which originates from WSHU-FM in Connecticut, features music composed in and around the Baroque Era.
KCNV has an effective radiated power of 550 watts. KCNV's signal in the Las Vegas Valley is substantially weaker than that of its sister station 88.9 KNPR, which broadcasts at 22,000 watts. KCNV's transmitter is near Potosi Mountain, off Potosi Mountain Road, amid the towers for other Las Vegas FM and TV stations in Clark County.
Translators
In addition to the main station, KCNV is relayed by these translators to widen its broadcast area. KNPR and all but one of its repeaters (all except KVNV in Reno) also simulcast KCNV on their second digital channels.
See also
Radio Reception, Nevada Public Radio
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KCNV
CNV
Classical music radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations
CNV
Radio stations established in 1973
1973 establishments in Nevada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Feds%20%28miniseries%29 | The Feds is a series of Australian television films starring Robert Taylor, which were first broadcast on the Nine Network 1993–1996.
The Feds revolves around the activities of the Australian Federal Police, who protect the national interests from crime in Australia and overseas. Nine telemovies were produced in the series.
Regular cast
Robert Taylor as Superintendent Dave Griffin
Angie Milliken as Detective Sergeant Jo Moody
John Bach as Commander Rainer Bass
Brian Vriends as Michael Skinner
Nell Feeney-Connor as Rose Dell'oro
Marcus Eyre as Blocker
Amanda Jane Bowden as Tina McLean
Zoe Bertram as Sarah Griffin
Benjamin Keatch as Brett Griffin
The Feds (pilot)
A barrister and a brain surgeon suspected of fraud are tracked down by the Feds.
The film was shot 1 March - 2 April 1993 on location in Melbourne, Canberra and Hong Kong.
Cast actors:
Sigrid Thornton as Christine McQuillan
Bruno Lawrence as Larry Porter
Nicki Wendt as Melita Reale
Rachel Griffiths as Angela Braglia
The Feds: Terror
Guest actors:
Max Tidof as Jurgen Dietermann
Colin Moody as Hans Holder
Erica Peril as Karen Siddeley
Paul Caesar as Eric King
Bruce Barry as Stanley Hickock
Nicholas Hammond as Milton
The Feds: Obsession
Guest actors:
Jerome Ehlers as Cal Woods
Denis Moore as Justice Fairweather
John Jacobs as Phil O'Leary
Stephen Whittaker as Glen Warrender
The Feds: Abduction
Guest actors:
John McTernan as Alan Guinnane
Anne Tenney as Suzi Plummer
Lani John Tupu as Idris Karya
Jackie Kelleher as Sarminah
The Feds: Seduction
Guest actors:
Peta Toppano as Brandy
Petru Gheorghiu as Mendosa
Jonathan Elsom as Justin
Peter McCauley as Chad
Carlos Sanchez as Lopez
Richard Moss as Senator North
Alberto Vila as Julio Blanco
The Feds: Suspect
Guest actors:
Susie Edmonds as Chief Inspector Beckwith
Paul Sonkkila as Commander Rock
John Higginson as Superintendent Pappas
Kevin Summers as Sen Sgt Del Re
Mark Neal as Det Const Barnes
Shannon McNamara as Niki Webster
Andrew Blackman as Ponytail
The Feds: Deception
Guest actors:
Rachael Beck as Judy Taylor
Nadine Garner as Tammy Warren
Daniel Lapaine as Tony Waterman
Nicholas Bell as Stephen Garrard
Stephen Whittaker as Glen C Warrender
Teo Gilbert as Jak Waterman
The Feds: Vengeance
Guest actors:
John Stanton as John Dyer
Lisa Hensley as Annie Fleming
Steven Vidler as Ed Bishop
Frances O'Connor as Arianna
Fiona Spence as Lisa
The Feds: Deadfall
Guest actors:
Martin Jacobs as Gerry Lehman
Simon Bossell as Gil McPherson
Max Tidof as Hauptkommissar Jurgen Dietermann
Belinda McClory as Pauline
Asher Keddie as Susan Lehman
The Feds: Betrayal
Guest actors:
Peter Phelps as Brian Petrie
Tammy MacIntosh as Nicky Bass
Chris Haywood as Daniel "Mac" McIntyre
Max Tidof as Hauptkommissar Jurgen Dietermann
Peter Hosking as Assist. Commissioner Roland Cloke
References
External links
Australian Television Information Archive
The F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon-4 | EON-4 was the first sci-fi episodic website and the second show from American Cybercast. The story, created by Rockne S. O'Bannon (Creator of Alien Nation, seaQuest DSV, and Farscape) was based around the mysterious Groom Lake or Area 51 site as the point of contact with an alien race. Three explorers from earth, U.S. Navy Captain David M. Crocker, Russian Alona Renee Kalinova, and John Eric Lange were allowed visitation (as EXPLRR TM I) with these aliens known as the Sentients, but were soon involved in a political intrigue on the alien world. Crocker dies on the trip to the Sentients contact point on Mars.
The website (Producers, Scott Nourse, Eric Barnard. Creative Director, Josh S. Rose) was designed as a direct transmission from the explorers as a way for visitors to interact with the drama unfolding before them. Each day, several images and a bit of the story were presented documenting the experience (in a sort of "static laden transmission") form. Often details would be kept obscure to heighten the sense of mystery.
Imagery for EON-4 was created by compositing still photography over 3D rendered graphics and adding various effects.
The creators of EON-4 implemented a BBS for direct dialogue between the creators and audience. Another board was set up where fans engaged in roleplaying within the storyline.
The web episodic lasted for little over a year and despite having gained the sponsorship of Apple, Toyota and Visa (New York Times), it ended shortly after the bankruptcy of its production company American Cybercast, producers of the first web episodic, The Spot.
After the demise of American Cybercast, a number of Eon-4 fans set up another interactive episodic story, called Marsdawn.
External links
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~frizzell/Reports/eon4.html - Preliminary Investigation Of Claims Made On The EON-4 Web Site by Michael A. Frizzell
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue23/web.html - Eon-4 as Sci-Fi Site of the Week, Review by Alexander Kirtland
http://chaseclub.com/preon.htm - Chase Masterson Fan Club, Eon-4 Press release about second crew.
http://www.marsdawn.com/ - another interactive sci-fi web story, refuge for fans after the Eon-4 site folded.
Science fiction websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot%20herder | Bot herders are hackers who use automated techniques to scan specific network ranges and find vulnerable systems, such as machines without current security patches, on which to install their bot program. The infected machine then becomes one of many zombies in a botnet and responds to commands given by the bot herder, usually via an Internet Relay Chat channel.
One of the new bot herders includes the controller of Conficker.
A bot herder usually uses a pseudonym to keep themselves anonymous and may use proxy servers, shell accounts, and bouncers to conceal their IP address thus maintaining anonymity.
See also
Internet bot
Botnet
References
Botnets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEGLAB | EEGLAB is a MATLAB toolbox distributed under the free BSD license for processing data from electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and other electrophysiological signals. Along with all the basic processing tools, EEGLAB implements independent component analysis (ICA), time/frequency analysis, artifact rejection, and several modes of data visualization. EEGLAB allows users to import their electrophysiological data in about 20 binary file formats, preprocess the data, visualize activity in single trials, and perform ICA. Artifactual ICA components may be subtracted from the data. Alternatively, ICA components representing brain activity may be further processed and analyzed. EEGLAB also allows users to group data from several subjects, and to cluster their independent components.
History
In 1997, a set of data processing functions was first released on the Internet by Scott Makeig in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory directed by Terry Sejnowski at the Salk Institute, under the name “the ICA/EEG toolbox”. In 2000, Arnaud Delorme designed a graphical user interface on top of these functions along with some of his own artifact removal functions, and released the first version of the “EEGLAB software for artifact removal”. In 2003, Delorme and Makeig joined efforts to release the first stable and fully documented version of EEGLAB. In 2004, EEGLAB was awarded funding by the NIH for continued development of research software.
Statistics
EEGLAB was downloaded about 25,000 times from 73 countries worldwide in its first three years (2003–2006) and in 2011 was reported to be the most widely used signal processing environment for processing of EEG data by cognitive neuroscientists (survey results). Its reference paper (Delorme & Makeig, 2004) has received over 12,400 citations (02/2013).
EEGLAB comprises over 380 stand-alone MATLAB functions and over 50,000 lines of code and hosts over 20 user-contributed plug-ins. Significant plug-in toolboxes continue to be written and published by researchers at the Swartz Center, UCSD, and by many other groups.
Major plug-ins include:
DIPFIT, for source localization of ICA component sources of EEG data;
ERPLAB, for deriving measures from average event-related potentials;
FASTER, a fully automated, unsupervised method for processing high density EEG data;
NBT, a toolbox for the computation and integration of neurophysiological biomarkers;
NFT, for building electrical forward head models from MR images and/or electrode positions;
SIFT, a source information flow toolbox;
BCILAB, an extensive environment for building and testing brain–computer interface models;
Hundreds of researchers have contributed directly or indirectly to the software by programming functions or reporting bugs. The current eeglablist email discussion list has over 5,000 members worldwide (2013).
See also
Other open-source toolboxes for neurophysiological signals processing include:
MNE-Python (Pytho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Barrett | Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage, and the author and compiler of language-related books and dictionaries. He is a co-host and co-producer of the American weekly, hour-long public radio show and podcast A Way with Words. He has made regular appearances on Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio, is often consulted as a language commentator, and has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and served as a lexicographer for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
Education
Grant holds a degree in French from Columbia University and has studied at the Université Paris Diderot and the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he was the editor in chief of the student newspaper, The Maneater (1990–91).
Career
He was an early blogger with the website World New York, which has been archived by the Library of Congress as part of its September 11 Web archive to preserve the blog's collection of responses to the 9/11 attacks.
In 2007, following the retirement of Richard Lederer from the radio show A Way with Words, Barrett became a co-host and eventually a co-producer of the public radio show, which is broadcast nationally in the United States. He co-hosts the show with writer/public speaker Martha Barnette. The caller-based radio show takes a sociolinguistic perspective towards language.
Barnette, Barrett, and senior producer Stefanie Levine founded the 501(c)(3) organization Wayword, Inc., to fund and produce A Way with Words after KPBS-FM, which had originally produced it, withdrew support.
Barrett is the author of the books Perfect English Grammar (Zephyros Press, 2016, ) and The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (McGraw Hill Professional, 2010, ). Perfect English Grammar is a 238-page book on writing and speaking the English language. The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English is based on his Double-Tongued Dictionary and World New York websites, and includes new and unusual words.
As an editor and lexicographer, he compiled the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (Oxford University Press, 2004, ), originally titled Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, and the award-winning web site Double-Tongued Dictionary.
In 2008, he was an emcee in the finals of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament alongside Merle Reagle.
He is the vice president of communications and technology for the American Dialect Society, a former member of the editorial review board for the academic journal American Speech, former contributor and editor of the journal's "Among the New Words" column, and a co-founder of the online dictionary Wordnik.
Between 2004 and 2014, Barrett created an annual words-of-the-year list which has been featured in The New York Times and The Dallas Morning News.
Barrett frequently comments on language matters in the popular press, as a radio and podcast guest, as a writer, and as a quote |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hits%20%26%20Favorites | Hits & Favorites, also known as ABC AC, was a 24-hour music format produced by Cumulus Media Networks (now Westwood One). ABC AC combined a highly researched Adult Contemporary music mix targeted to women aged 25–49.
Citadel Broadcasting purchased ABC Radio Networks (now Cumulus Media Networks) and the ABC owned-and-operated radio stations from The Walt Disney Company in February 2006. The Citadel acquisition has been completed and did not include Radio Disney or the ESPN Stations. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.
History
Starstation, as it was formerly known, was part of the original Satellite Music Network, with studios in Mokena, Illinois, outside of Chicago. After being acquired by ABC/Capital Cities, the format moved to studios in Dallas, Texas, along with many of the other SMN formats.
Weekday hosts
Frank Welch (also hosts Saturday 80's Show)
Richard Stevens
Mike Wade
Mary Rose
Donny Osmond (midday)
Weekend hosts
Milli Mills
Steve Eberhart
Sheryl Shannon
Scott Reese
Debbie Douglass
Areka Spencer
Former hosts
Citadel Media Networks had a mass firing on November 12, 2009. Those let go from the AC format include: Peter Stewart – the 20-year program director of the format, Tom Kennedy – assistant program director, Brian Kane – night time host and webmaster, and Lori St. James – longtime morning show co-host. St. James's co-host Richard Stevens now hosts a solo show on the format.
John McCarty hosted the Saturday 70's (later changed to 80's) Show for about a decade on the format. He died suddenly at the age of 55 on May 26, 2008, due to complications with diabetes. John was concurrently employed as the local operations manager for Traffic.com in Dallas, and had worked in local Dallas-Fort Worth radio since 1979. McCarty began his radio career in his hometown of Hopkinsville, KY in 1968.
Bob Leonard was the original morning man on the format, and spent nearly 25 years with the ABC Radio Networks. Leonard did many of the smooth-voiced promos for The Star Station as well. Next, Leonard became a host on the short-lived financial online talk radio site mn1.com, then afternoon news anchor at WBAP-AM in Fort Worth-Dallas before relocating to Miami, Florida, where he worked as a traffic reporter. He has since retired due to health reasons.
The format officially ceased broadcasting in mid-July 2014, after a final merger with Westwood One. No personalities were retained from this format. Affiliates now carry Westwood One's AC Total format.
Other former hosts have included:
Tom Rodman
Ron Britain
John Calhoun
Steve Eberhart
John Lacy
Karen Williams
Rocky Martini
Robert G. Hall
Dean Richards
Tim Spencer
"VLJ"
Trivia
Richard Stevens is a former Hollywood Squares announcer and is the brother of another Squares announcer and American Top 40 host, Shadoe Stevens.
Sample hour of programming
"Dancing In The Dark" – Bruce Springsteen
"Home" – Michael Bublé
"This I Promise You" – 'N Sync
"Dream Weaver" – Gary Wright
"Kokom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20Country%20Today | Best Country Today (formerly known as Country Coast-to-Coast, The Best Country Around and Today's Best Country) was one of the 24-hour live formats produced by Cumulus Media Networks. It is designed to appeal to a wide range of listeners, concentrating on a younger audience than would generally listen to traditional Country stations. It is one of two country formats produced by Cumulus, the other being Real Country, which skews toward older listeners.
Some of the featured artists were Kenny Chesney, Faith Hill, George Strait, The Wreckers and other contemporary country music artists.
History
Beginning as one of the original Satellite Music Network formats over 30 years ago, its studios and offices were located in Mokena, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Shortly after SMN was purchased by ABC/Capital Cities in 1990, the format was moved to Dallas, Texas, along with the other SMN formats such as The Touch, Timeless Classics, The Classic Rock Experience, Oldies Radio, Hits & Favorites, Real Country, and Today's Best Hits had previously been established at the Dallas location. In its over 20-year history, Today's Best Country/Country Coast-To-Coast has had three Operations Managers, Mark Edwards, Dave Nicholson and Gary Reynolds.
Citadel Broadcasting purchased ABC Radio Networks (now Cumulus Media Networks) and the ABC Owned and Operated radio stations from The Walt Disney Company in February 2006 and continue to use the ABC name for several years afterward. The Citadel acquisition does not include Radio Disney or the ESPN radio stations. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.
Best Country Today was discontinued months after Cumulus Media Networks' merger with Westwood One as there's already a contemporary country music satellite format.
Programming
Hosts heard on Best Country Today included Charlie Derek, Darcy, Cadillac Jack, Jeremy Robinson, and Chaz Mixon. American Country Countdown is distributed on the network on weekends. Robinson's show was also syndicated outside the network as an evening show.
Alumni
Jim Beedle
Mark Edwards
Doug Thompson
Jim Brady (deceased)
Hubcap Carter (deceased)
Ted Clark
Kurt Schaeffer
Bob Forester
Michael Hardeman
Ed Leal
Bill Lee
Dave Marcum (deceased)
Catfish Prewitt
Steve Sharp
Joe Soto
Jerry Walker
Jim Weaver
Becky Wight
Randy Williams
Jim Casey
Bill Fortune
Gary Semro
References
External links
http://eclecticmax.blogspot.com/
John Tyler, Texas Radio Hall of Fame
Radio formats
Westwood One
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company
Radio stations disestablished in 2014
Radio stations established in 1985
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH43 | Asian Highway 43 (AH43) is a route of the Asian Highway Network, running from Asian Highway 1 in Agra, India to Matara in Sri Lanka.
Route
It passes through Indian cities of Agra (AH1), Gwalior (AH47), Sagar, Nagpur (AH46), Hyderabad, Chikkaballapur and Bangalore (AH45, AH47), Madurai. The road briefly ends at Rameswaram before starting in Sri Lanka at Talaimannar and passes through Mannar, Anuradhapura, Dambulla (AH44), Kurunegala, Kandy, Colombo, Galle and Matara.
India
The route shares some portions of various Indian National Highways. The route passes through Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
Agra to Madurai
Madurai to Tiruppuvanam
Tiruppuvanam to Dhanushkodi
Sri Lanka
The route shares portions of the following Sri Lankan highways:
, The serves as an alternate route for the AH43 on the portion.
, The serves as an alternate route for the AH43 on the portion. Currently all these roads bear the national highways route signs, but have not yet been installed with AH43 route signs.
Junctions
India
Agra
Gwalior
Nagpur
Bangalore
Krishnagiri
Sri Lanka
at Dambulla
See also
List of Asian Highways
International E-road network
Trans-African Highway network
References
External links
Treaty on Asian Highways with routes
Asian Highway Network
Roads in India
Highways in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH47 | Asian Highway 47 (AH47) is a route of the Asian Highway Network, running from AH43 in Gwalior, India to AH43 in Bangalore, India.It passes through the Indian cities of Gwalior (AH43), Dhule (AH46), and Thane, Mumbai, Pune, Belagavi, Hubballi and Bangalore (AH43).
Route
The route shares portions of Indian National Highways numbered NH3, Mumbai Pune Expressway and NH48. Various cities and towns in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka situated on AH47 are listed.
Madhya Pradesh
Gwalior
Shivpuri
Guna
Biaora
Shajapur
Dewas
Indore
Pithampur
Khalghat
Julwania
Maharashtra
Shirpur
Dhule on Asian Highway 46
Nashik
Thane
Mumbai
Panvel
Khopoli
Pune
Satara
Karad
Kolhapur
Karnataka
Nippani
Sankeshwar
Belagavi
Dharwad
Hubballi
Haveri
Ranebennur
Harihar
Davangere
Chitradurga
Tumkuru
Bengaluru
See also
AH43
AH45
AH46
References
Asian Highway Network
Roads in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH42 | Asian Highway 42 (AH42) is a route of the Asian Highway Network, running from AH5 in Lanzhou, China to AH1 in Barhi, India.
It passes through the countries of China, Nepal, and India. It is the nearest Asian Highway to Mount Everest.
More than half of the route, from Lhasa to Lanzhou in China, is labelled as a "Potential Asian Highway."
China
It passes through following cities in China
: Lanzhou - Xining - Golmud - Lhasa (when complete)
At the moment, Golmud - Nagqu uses .
: Lhasa - Zhangmu
Nepal
Araniko Highway: Kodari - Kathmandu
Tribhuvan Highway: Kathmandu - Narayangarh (AH2) - Pathlaiya (AH2) - Birganj
India
Raxaul - Motihari - pipra kothi, Mehsi
Pipra Kothi - Mehsi - Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur - Barauni
Barauni - Barh - Bakhtiarpur
Bakhtiarpur - Bihar Sharif - Nawada - Barhi
References
Asian Highway Network
Highways in Nepal
Highways in India
Roads in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Future%20Boy%20Conan%20episodes | This article is a list of all 26 episodes of Future Boy Conan, an anime television series by Nippon Animation. The series began airing in Japan on 4 April 1978 at 7:30pm on the NHK TV network in Japan. It ran for about seven months, with episode 26 airing on 31 October 1978.
Episodes
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| ShortSummary = On its way to High Harbor, the passenger ship recovers Conan, Dyce and Jimsy from the sea; and after asking Conan to look after Lana, Dr. Lao dies contently. Sometime later, the old and new inhabitants of High Harbor conduct a double celebration surrounding Dyce and Monsley's wedding and the relaunch of the Barracuda. Many of the new settlers, including Conan, Lana, Jimsy, Tera, Luke, Monsley and the Barracuda'''s crew, leave to establish a new colony on Remnant Island, now expanded by the cataclysm into a new continent.
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References
General
Specific
See alsoFuture Boy Conan''
Future Boy Conan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day%20trading%20software | Day trading software is computer software intended to facilitate day trading of stocks or other financial instruments.
Types of software
Day trading software falls into three main categories: data, charting, and trade execution.
Data
Day traders often subscribe to software platforms which specialize in providing data that helps inform trading decisions. There are several types of data that may be used for trading including price data, reference data, and analysis data. Some market data software products provide data for visualization, while others provide programmatic access via APIs.
Price Data
Having access to the accurate current price of a security is central to day trading. A day trader needs to know the prices of the stocks, futures, or currencies that they want to trade. In the case of stocks and futures, those prices come from the exchange where they are traded. Forex is a little different as there is no central exchange. Price data often includes trades, which represent transactions that occurred, as well as quotes, which represent the bid and ask prices.
Reference Data
Day traders also rely on software platforms that provide reference data, which is data that provides background information for a security, such as government filings or recent news. For US stocks, the Securities and Exchange Commission provides programmatic access to recent company filings.
Analysis Data
Many trading strategies rely on analyzing data derived from historical price data, volume, etc. Options traders often use the greeks which are provided by some market data platforms in conjunction with stock options data. There are also a wide variety of technical indicators which day traders may rely on as signals of future price movement.
Charting
The vast majority of day traders will chart prices in some kind of charting software. Many charting vendors also supply data feeds.
Charting packages all tend to offer the same basic technical analysis indicators. Advanced packages often include a complete programming language for creating more indicators, or testing different trading strategies.
Trade execution
Once traders have their data and can see and analyze it on a chart, they will at some point want to place a trade. To do so, they need to use some kind of trade execution software or electronic trading platform. Many trade execution software allow advanced traders to develop their own trading strategies by using an application programming interface.
Most stock brokerage firms will provide proprietary software linked directly to their in-house systems, but many third party applications are available through Independent software vendors. The advantage of third party programs is that they allow the trader to trade through different brokers whilst retaining the same interface. They may also offer a number of advanced features such as automatic trade execution.
See also
Electronic trading platform
Extended hours trading
Bloomberg Terminal
Reuters 30 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmodo | Gizmodo ( ) is a design, technology, science and science fiction website. It was originally launched as part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton, and runs on the Kinja platform. Gizmodo also includes the subsite io9, which focuses on science fiction and futurism. Since April 2019, Gizmodo is part of G/O Media, owned by private equity firm Great Hill Partners.
History
The blog, launched in 2002, was originally edited by Peter Rojas, who was later recruited by Weblogs, Inc. to launch their similar technology blog, Engadget. By mid-2004, Gizmodo and Gawker together were bringing in revenue of approximately $6,500 per month.
Gizmodo then launched in other locations:
In 2005, VNU and Gawker Media formed an alliance to republish Gizmodo across Europe, with VNU translating the content into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, and adding local European-interest material.
In 2006, Gizmodo Japan was launched by Mediagene, with additional Japanese contents.
In 2007, Gizmodo Australia was launched in the US, by Allure Media under license from Gawker Media. This site incorporates additional Australian content, and is branded Gizmodo AU.
In November 2007, the Dutch magazine license was taken over by HUB Uitgevers.
In September 2008, Gizmodo Brazil was launched with Portuguese content.
In September 2011, Gizmodo UK was launched with Future, to cover British news. Gizmodo UK was later shut down in September 2020, with all web links redirecting to Gizmodo.com.
In February 2011, Gizmodo underwent a major redesign.
In 2013, Matt Novak moved his Paleofuture blog to Gizmodo from Smithsonian.
In 2015, the Gawker blog io9 was merged into Gizmodo. The staff of io9 continued with Gizmodo and continued to post articles on subjects covered by the website, including science fiction, fantasy, futurism, science, technology and astronomy.
Gizmodo was one of six websites that was purchased by Univision Communications in their acquisition of Gawker Media in August 2016. Univision in turn sold Gizmodo and an array of sister websites to private equity firm Great Hill Partners in 2019.
In Australia in 2018, after Nine Entertainment merged the business behind PEDESTRIAN.TV with that of Allure Media, forming the larger Pedestrian Group, the website and associated company changed its name to Pedestrian, and also incorporated the brands Gizmodo AU, Business Insider Australia, Kotaku and POPSUGAR Australia.
Coverage
A Gizmodo blogger captured the first photos from the floor of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007 and, according to Reuters, journalists at the (simultaneous) Macworld debated whether Gizmodo or Engadget had the better live coverage of Steve Jobs' 2007 keynote speech.
Controversy
TV-B-Gone
Richard Blakeley, a videographer for Gizmodos publisher, Gawker Media, disrupted several presentations held at CES in 2008. Blakely secretly turned off TVs using TV-B-Gone remote controls, resulting in his being barred from C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VS1 | VS1 may refer to:
VS1, a V speed in aviation
VS1, a grade of Diamond clarity
OS/VS1, an operating system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoCo%20team | A Local Community Team, or LoCo Team, is a group of local Linux advocates. The main focus of a LoCo team is to advocate the use of the Linux operating system as well as the use of open source/free software products.
Ubuntu & LoCos
The Ubuntu OS receives the credit for the promotion of the use of LoCos. They provide an assortment of materials and media to help each LoCo with their goals.
Approved LoCo Teams
New LoCo Teams
Cyprus
See also
Linux User Group
Ubuntu Community Council
Jono Bacon -- Ubuntu Community Manager
External links
Ubuntu LoCo List
Ubuntu LoCo Main
Ubuntu LoCo Howto
Ubuntu LoCo FAQ
Ubuntu LoCo List (Wiki)
Ubuntu tries to go LoCo in all 50 states
Linux user groups
ru:Группа пользователей Linux#LoCo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki%20Nishita | is a professor at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Nishita received a research award for computer graphics from the Information Processing Society of Japan in 1987, and also received the Steven Anson Coons Award from the ACM SIGGRAPH in 2005.
He is one of the pioneers of the method of radiosity (also soft shadows). His research on computer graphics includes lighting simulation, rendering, shading, natural phenomena, curved surface, non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), morphing, interactive rendering, and WebGraphics.
Nishita received his BE, ME and Ph.D in engineering in 1971, 1973, and 1985, respectively, from Hiroshima University.
He worked at Fukuyama University from 1979 to 1998.
He was an associate researcher in the Engineering Computer Graphics Laboratory at Brigham Young University from 1988 to 1989.
He has lectured at the University of Tokyo since 1994, and has been a professor in the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering at the university since 1998.
He has written 17 SIGGRAPH papers and 18 EUROGRAPHICS papers.
He was a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He was a president of the IIEEJ (Institute of Image and Electronics Engineers of Japan).
External links
Tomoyuki Nishita Homepage
Computer graphics researchers
Japanese computer scientists
Computer graphics professionals
1949 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Brigham Young University staff
Hiroshima University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IXML | iXML is an open standard for the inclusion of location sound metadata in Broadcast Wave audio files, video files and also IP video and audio streams. This includes things like Scene, Take and Notes information.
It is the result of extended discussions between the various manufacturers of Field recorders, and editing systems. It is designed to standardise the exchange of metadata between these systems.
The iXML specification describes an WAV RIFF chunk in BWF files which contains standard XML data following the iXML specification. It also introduces the concept of using iXML in IP video streams such as NDI
Prior to the development of the iXML specification, the film and TV industry relied on the BWF bext description chunk which was used differently by many vendors to roughly encode some small metadata, but was invariably undefined, with too little space for full information. Whilst many systems tried to read what they could from the bext data, because of no specification and limited space, bext usefulness was limited.
History
The iXML concept was born during a meeting of various vendors, including manufacturers of field recorders, NLEs and DAWs, hosted by the Institute of Broadcast Sound, in London, on 8 July 2004. The "i" in iXML recognises the part the IBS played in bringing together such a diverse blend of normally competitive manufacturers to collectively solve the increasingly difficult problem of metadata interchange, with an elegant, capable and completely public specification.
Following initial discussions between Mark Gilbert of Gallery, John Ellwood of SynchroArts and J.P Beauviala of Aaton at the IBS meeting, the iXML 1.0 Specification was developed, drawn up and published by Mark Gilbert of Gallery UK at http://www.ixml.info. The iXML Specification is maintained by Gallery UK, and changes made are based on discussions by the iXML committee.
Soon after the IBS meeting, Gallery shipped Metacorder which was the first iXML compatible device. Mark Gilbert continued to promote the iXML format all over the world during 2004 and 2005 and gradually products emerged from other vendors. Other early adopters of iXML included SynchroArt's TITAN utility, and HHB's Portadrive field recorder.
In 2019 Gallery introduced the notion of using iXML in NDI based video/audio streams and the iXML 3.0 specification was announced which will define this.
In Use
Today, dozens of industry standard audio products support iXML with 100% interchange of metadata between systems. This includes all the current location field recorders (for which the spec was originally designed), several DAW applications (including Digidesign Pro Tools, Sony Vegas, Cockos Reaper and Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo) and various utilities. In late 2007, Apple Inc. added iXML support to their Final Cut Pro non linear video editor, which is used by more than 800,000 users worldwide. iXML support was introduced with version 6.02 of Final Cut Pro.
External links
iXML Specification
Metac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20A.%20Cafasso | Joseph Anthony Cafasso Jr. (born August 2, 1956) is an American former Fox News consultant on military and counterterrorism issues who left the network in 2002 after it was discovered he was a military imposter. Cafasso claimed to have been a retired Special Forces lieutenant colonel who was a Vietnam War veteran and recipient of the Silver Star, but his official service records showed he had been administratively separated in 1976 during basic training after 44 days.
Early life
Born in 1956 to Joseph A. Cafasso Sr. and Giovanna "Jenny" Cafasso (née Mosca), Cafasso was raised in Carteret, New Jersey. He has four sisters and one brother. Cafasso graduated from Carteret High School before enlisting in the Army in 1976.
TWA Flight 800 investigation
In the late 1990s, Cafasso became involved with events following the crash of TWA Flight 800 through his association with the Associated Retired Aviation Professionals (ARAP), an organization that claimed to be conducting its own independent investigation into the cause of the crash. Some time thereafter, members of the group began questioning Cafasso's military background, and, according to Donaldson, Cafasso would not produce his official record when requested to do so. As a result, Donaldson disassociated his organization from Cafasso.
Political activities
Prior to his employment with Fox News, Cafasso had worked for the Pat Buchanan 2000 presidential campaign, fundraising and running petition drives. Official campaign finance records show that Cafasso was being reimbursed by the Buchanan campaign committee for travel and other expenses.
He also became involved with a humanitarian organization led by Serbian-American activist David Vuich that was seeking to help people in Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the 1999 NATO bombing campaign.
Departure from Fox News
Cafasso had claimed to have been a retired lieutenant colonel in the Special Forces, a veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star, and a participant in Operation Eagle Claw. However, his official military record indicated that he served only 44 days in the U.S. Army from May to June 1976, being administratively separated from the service.
Around the time the New York Times was developing a story about Cafasso he sent the newspaper an email claiming that his leaving Fox News was tantamount to "political assassination by a group of self-centered individuals with their own political agendas."
Cafasso appeared briefly in Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, the 2004 documentary film that made the argument that Fox News had a right-wing bias. In it he delivers a short comment on decision-making at the network, comparing it to what he calls the "Christian fundamentalist movement".
In an interview published in a companion book to the film, Cafasso hinted at seeing evidence of "right-wing religious extremism" at the network, and claimed that Fox vice president and Washington, D.C. bureau chief Kim Hume once asked him whet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%202200 | The Wang 2200 was an all-in-one minicomputer released by Wang Laboratories in May 1973. Unlike some other desktop computers, such as the HP 9830, it had a cathode-ray tube (CRT) in a cabinet that also included an integrated computer-controlled cassette tape storage unit and keyboard. It was microcoded to run BASIC on startup, making it similar to home computers of a few years later. About 65,000 systems were shipped in its lifetime and it found wide use in small and medium-size businesses worldwide.
The 2200 series evolved from a singular desktop computer into larger systems able to support up to 16 workstations which utilized commercial disk technologies that appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The disk subsystems could be attached to up to 15 computers giving a theoretical upper limit of 240 workstations in a single cluster.
Unlike other Wang product lines such as the VS and OIS, value-added resellers (VARs) were used to customize and market 2200 systems to customers. One such solution deployed dozens of 2200 systems and was developed in conjunction with Hawaii- and Hong Kong-based firm, Algorithms, Inc. It provided paging (beeper) services for much of the Hong Kong market in the early 1980s.
History
Early 2200 models
The first models of the 2200, released in April 1973, were the 2200A and B. This differed in the amount of microcode, with the B model holding additional commands in Wang BASIC. The extra commands in the B model were mostly related to data handling, allowing BASIC programs to construct databases with relative ease. The later C model added a small number of additional commands, including simple error handling.
The A, B and C were replaced by the S and T models, which re-implemented the CPU using newer, higher-density large-scale integration parts. S models added commands to convert strings to and from numbers and a few other commands. The T version added a complete set of matrix math commands like those seen in later versions of Dartmouth BASIC as well as new input/output functions. The S and T machines also used an internal power supply, rather than the external one used in the earlier models.
The E and F models had features similar to those of the S and T, but was yet another re-implementation of the CPU and this time housed the system in a case from a terminal. Another change was the input/output subsystem, which made I/O cards for the E/F incompatible with the earlier machines.
Later "2600" models
A complete re-design of the CPU was underway as early as 1974. This was not simply a re-implementation of the same underlying CPU using new components, the CPU ran an entirely different machine code. This was invisible to the user, because the line had always coded its BASIC in microcode, not the machine language, and the user only had access to the microcode. This meant user programs including "machine code" continued to run on the new CPUs in spite of them having completely different instructions.
The new machine was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20Pratt%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Ian Pratt is a British computer scientist. He was the chief architect of the open-source Xen project, and chairman of Xen.org. He was also the founder of XenSource, the company behind Xen project. After XenSource was acquired by Citrix, he became vice president of Advanced Virtualization Products at this company, until leaving in 2011. He then became the CEO of Bromium. Bromium was eventually acquired by HP Inc in 2019 and he became the Global Head of Security at HP.
Before working full-time at XenSource, Pratt was a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory where he taught undergraduate courses and supervised PhD students, and was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was the leader of the Systems Research Group, where he was also part of the XenoServer project that lead to the creation of the Xen hypervisor
He received the Academy Silver Medal in 2009 and was elected to Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012. He resides in Cambridge, UK.
References
External links
Ian Pratt's former website at the University of Cambridge
Interview with Brian Gammadge at Gartner.com, 2 May 2008
Ian Pratt's HP biography
British computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
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