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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%20Television | Citizens Television (CTV) is a Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV network based in Hamden, New Haven, and West Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1991, the network consists of three separate channels seen in New Haven, Hamden, and West Haven. According to its website, Citizens Television "exists only because of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We protect it, and it protects us. All of us!" The station's stated purpose is to encourage its viewers to exercise their legal right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression through CTV. The station is financially supported by viewer donations.
History
In 2013, after a decade in suburban Hamden, CTV moved back to the center city where its original offices had been located; it is now located at 843 State St.
Channels
Citizens Television is broadcast on three specialty Public, educational, and government access cable TV channels, each used for a specific purpose. They include:
Channel 27 -- CTV's Public-access television channel. Programming on this channel includes submitted programming from residents living in the station's surrounding areas.
Channel 26 -- CTV's Educational-access television channel. Programming consists of material produced by local educational institutions for the benefit of the community.
Channel 96 -- CTV's Government-access television (GATV) channel, considered to be Connecticut's version of C-SPAN. Programming consists of coverage of Connecticut's state politics.
Shows
CTV has been a rebroadcaster of shows produced by other stations, including Democracy Now!, Classic Arts Showcase and NASA TV.
Mr. Fred's Palette
Mr. Fred's Palette is an American public-access art instructional program. It is hosted by local artist Fred Carrion and broadcasts popular music, television, and art. The show is produced and directed by Fred's sons, Chris and Andrew Carrion. Mr. Fred's Palette has won awards from the Alliance for Community Media.
References
External links
Citizens Television website
American public access television
Television stations in Connecticut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20descriptor | In computer vision, visual descriptors or image descriptors are descriptions of the visual features of the contents in images, videos, or algorithms or applications that produce such descriptions. They describe elementary characteristics such as the shape, the color, the texture or the motion, among others.
Introduction
As a result of the new communication technologies and the massive use of Internet in our society, the amount of audio-visual information available in digital format is increasing considerably. Therefore, it has been necessary to design some systems that allow us to describe the content of several types of multimedia information in order to search and classify them.
The audio-visual descriptors are in charge of the contents description. These descriptors have a good knowledge of the objects and events found in a video, image or audio and they allow the quick and efficient searches of the audio-visual content.
This system can be compared to the search engines for textual contents. Although it is certain, that it is relatively easy to find text with a computer, is much more difficult to find concrete audio and video parts. For instance, imagine somebody searching a scene of a happy person. The happiness is a feeling and it is not evident its shape, color and texture description in images.
The description of the audio-visual content is not a superficial task and it is essential for the effective use of this type of archives. The standardization system that deals with audio-visual descriptors is the MPEG-7 (Motion Picture Expert Group - 7).
Types
Descriptors are the first step to find out the connection between pixels contained in a digital image and what humans recall after having observed an image or a group of images after some minutes.
Visual descriptors are divided in two main groups:
General information descriptors: contain low level descriptors which give a description about color, shape, regions, textures and motion.
Specific domain information descriptors: give information about objects and events in the scene. A concrete example would be face recognition.
General information descriptors
General information descriptors consist of a set of descriptors that covers different basic and elementary features like: color, texture, shape, motion, location and others. This description is automatically generated by means of signal processing.
Color
It's the most basic quality of visual content. Five tools are defined to describe color. The three first tools represent the color distribution and the last ones describe the color relation between sequences or group of images:
Dominant color descriptor (DCD)
Scalable color descriptor (SCD)
Color structure descriptor (CSD)
Color layout descriptor (CLD)
Group of frame (GoF) or group-of-pictures (GoP)
Texture
It's an important quality in order to describe an image. The texture descriptors characterize image textures or regions. They observe the region homogeneity and the histogr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn%20Notice | Burn Notice is an American espionage television series created by Matt Nix, which originally aired on the USA Network for a total of seven seasons from June 28, 2007, to September 12, 2013. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, and (beginning in season four) Coby Bell.
The premise of the show focuses on Michael Westen (Donovan), a former spy who was fired and cut off from the legitimate world by the agency he used to work for. Trapped in Miami with few resources, Westen takes jobs as an unlicensed private investigator while unraveling the mystery of who burned him and why.
The series received generally positive reviews from critics for the show's pace, humor, dialogue, and combination of espionage and crime drama presented in an irreverent tone. In 2010, the series was the #2 cable scripted series by viewership with 6.7 million viewers, behind Royal Pains. In addition to the television episodes, the show has a prequel movie and tie-in novels.
Plot
The title of the series refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies to discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources who are considered to have become unreliable. When spies are burned, their connection to an espionage organization is terminated, leaving them without access to cash or influence. According to the narration during the opening credits, the burned spy has no prior work history, no money, no support network – in essence, no identity. The television series uses second-person narrative and frequent voice-overs providing exposition from the viewpoint of covert operations agent Michael Westen, played by Donovan. The voice-over commentary is in the form of tips for fledgling agents as if for a training or orientation film.
After being "burned" in the middle of an operation in southern Nigeria and subsequently beaten and kidnapped, Westen finds himself in his hometown of Miami, Florida. He is tended to by his ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar), but he has been abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts and is under continuous surveillance with his assets frozen. Extraordinary efforts to reach his U.S. government handler eventually yield only a grudging admission that someone powerful wants him "on ice" in Miami. If he leaves there, he will be hunted down and taken into custody. If he stays, he can remain relatively free. Consumed by the desire to find out who burned him and why, Westen is reluctantly drawn into working as an unlicensed private investigator and problem solver for ordinary citizens to fund his investigation into his situation as a blacklisted agent.
Westen invites his old friend Sam Axe (Campbell) to assist him, while Fiona invites herself to join them. With the occasional assistance and sometimes hindrance of his mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless), Westen battles an array of criminals such as mobsters, gang members, con artists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers, foreign wet-work operatives, drug |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Chafe | Christopher David Chafe, born 1952 in Bern, Switzerland, is a musician, scientist, and the director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is Duca Family Professor at Stanford University, holding a Doctor of Musical Arts in music composition from Stanford University (1983), a Master of Arts in music composition from University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Arts in music from Antioch College. He won a Net Challenge Prize from the IEEE and Association for Computing Machinery in 2000, and a National Science Foundation research award in 1999. He has been performing with the Tintinnabulate ensemble at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Patents
US No. 6,801,939 (2004) "Method for Evaluating Quality of Service of a Digital Network Connection"
US No. 5,508,473 (1996) "Music Synthesizer and Method for Simulating Period Synchronous Noise Associated with Air Flows in Wind Instruments"
US No. 5,157,216 (1992) "Musical Synthesizer System and Method Using Pulsed Noise for Simulating the Noise Component of Musical Tones"
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20070609203534/http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~cc/
1952 births
Stanford University Department of Music faculty
Living people
Swiss musicologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLD%20resolution | SLD resolution (Selective Linear Definite clause resolution) is the basic inference rule used in logic programming. It is a refinement of resolution, which is both sound and refutation complete for Horn clauses.
The SLD inference rule
Given a goal clause, represented as the negation of a problem to be solved :
with selected literal , and an input definite clause:
whose positive literal (atom) unifies with the atom of the selected literal , SLD resolution derives another goal clause, in which the selected literal is replaced by the negative literals of the input clause and the unifying substitution is applied:
In the simplest case, in propositional logic, the atoms and are identical, and the unifying substitution is vacuous. However, in the more general case, the unifying substitution is necessary to make the two literals identical.
The origin of the name "SLD"
The name "SLD resolution" was given by Maarten van Emden for the unnamed inference rule introduced by Robert Kowalski. Its name is derived from SL resolution, which is both sound and refutation complete for the unrestricted clausal form of logic. "SLD" stands for "SL resolution with Definite clauses".
In both, SL and SLD, "L" stands for the fact that a resolution proof can be restricted to a linear sequence of clauses:
where the "top clause" is an input clause, and every other clause is a resolvent one of whose parents is the previous clause . The proof is a refutation if the last clause is the empty clause.
In SLD, all of the clauses in the sequence are goal clauses, and the other parent is an input clause. In SL resolution, the other parent is either an input clause or an ancestor clause earlier in the sequence.
In both SL and SLD, "S" stands for the fact that the only literal resolved upon in any clause is one that is uniquely selected by a selection rule or selection function. In SL resolution, the selected literal is restricted to one which has been most recently introduced into the clause. In the simplest case, such a last-in-first-out selection function can be specified by the order in which literals are written, as in Prolog. However, the selection function in SLD resolution is more general than in SL resolution and in Prolog. There is no restriction on the literal that can be selected.
The computational interpretation of SLD resolution
In clausal logic, an SLD refutation demonstrates that the input set of clauses is unsatisfiable. In logic programming, however, an SLD refutation also has a computational interpretation. The top clause can be interpreted as the denial of a conjunction of subgoals . The derivation of clause from is the derivation, by means of backward reasoning, of a new set of sub-goals using an input clause as a goal-reduction procedure. The unifying substitution both passes input from the selected subgoal to the body of the procedure and simultaneously passes output from the head of the procedure to the remaining unselected subgoals. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret%20%28software%29 | CARET (Computerized Anatomical Reconstruction Toolkit) is a software application for the structural and functional analysis of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex. CARET is developed in the Van Essen Laboratory in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
CARET is a free, open-source application distributed in both binary and source formats under the GNU General Public License. CARET runs on FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.
CARET's capabilities
Analysis of group anatomical differences using sulcal depth morphometry.
Display of activation foci.
Generation of flat, inflated, spherical surfaces.
Mapping of fMRI volumes onto surfaces.
Surface reconstruction from anatomical MRI volumes using the SureFit algorithm.
Surface reconstruction from contours.
Surface-based registration.
Visualization of contours, surfaces, and volumes.
Related Software
SuMS Database and WebCaret provided on-line storage of surface and volume-based data along with web-based visualization of the data.
See also
AFNI
FMRIB Software Library
FreeSurfer
Neuroimaging
Neuroinformatics
References
External links
CARET Home Page
Computational neuroscience
Medical imaging
Neuroimaging software
Washington University in St. Louis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube%20%28BBC%20Micro%29 | In computing, the Tube is the expansion interface and architecture of the BBC Microcomputer System which allows the BBC Micro to communicate with a second processor, or coprocessor.
Under the Tube architecture, the coprocessor runs the application software for the user, whilst the Micro (acting as a host) provides all I/O functions, such as screen display, keyboard and storage devices management. A coprocessor unit can be coldplugged into any BBC Micro with a disk interface (whose ROM contained the necessary host software) and used immediately.
Implementation
The 40-pin IDC "Tube" connector is a simple slave connection to the host processor's main bus, with 8 data lines, 7 address lines, and an interrupt input. The Tube protocols are implemented by hardware in the attached device.
Inside the coprocessor unit a proprietary chip (the Tube ULA, manufactured initially by Ferranti) interfaces and logically isolates the host and coprocessor buses. This allows the Tube to work with a completely different bus architecture in the coprocessor unit. The other active components needed are a microprocessor, some RAM, a small ROM containing processor specific client code, glue logic such as an address decoder and a power supply.
The two processors communicate through four pairs of FIFO buffers in the Tube ULA. Console input/output, error messages, data transfers and system calls each have their own pair of buffers, one for each direction. The queue capacity varies between 1 and 24 bytes, depending on the dedicated buffer function. Each buffer has a control register and status register to monitor its state and configure the raising of interrupts.
The protocol for the use of these buffers is rigorously specified by Acorn Computers and amounts to interprocess communication by message passing. Most interaction is asynchronous but fast block transfers are synchronous and consist of the host blindly running a simple fetch-store loop, which defines the transfer rate. The coprocessor is synchronised by passing a dummy byte and then regulated by the relevant buffer semaphore.
The general-purpose nature of the Tube connector in principle allows it to be used for any type of high-speed peripheral, although Acorn only uses it for Tube coprocessors. The BBC Micro/Master range provides 5 address lines for the address range &60–&7F but the Tube protocol uses the lowest 3 bits. Only these 3 address lines are connected to internal Tube sockets, as found in the BBC Master or Universal Second Processor Unit.
Applications
Numerous coprocessors were developed for the Tube. Most commonly seen was the 6502 Second Processor, featuring a MOS Technology 6502 processor, which allowed unmodified BBC Micro programs to run faster and with more memory, as long as they use the API for all I/O. The Z80 Second Processor featured a Zilog Z80 processor running CP/M, and the 32016 Second Processor featured a National Semiconductor 32016 processor running Panos.
These coprocessors form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noticias%20Univision | ; ) is the news division of Univision, an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by the Univision Television Group division of TelevisaUnivision. The news division is based out of the network's facilities, referred to as the "NewsPort", in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida, which it shares with sister English language news channel Fusion and Univision's flagship owned-and-operated station WLTV-DT.
The division's flagship program is Noticiero Univision, consisted of two nightly evening newscasts (airing in the early and late evening) focusing on international news and stories of relevance to the network's main target demographic of Latino Americans. Other programs produced by the news division include morning news-talk show ¡Despierta América!, newsmagazine series Primer Impacto and Aquí y Ahora, and Sunday morning political affairs program Al Punto con Jorge Ramos.
Noticias Univision maintains bureaus located at many of the network's television stations across the United States (particularly those owned by parent subsidiary Univision Television Group, that serve as owned-and-operated stations of the network) and throughout Latin America. Noticiero Univision also has news share agreements with many of the national terrestrial networks in those same nations and will often carry their footage and reporting with credit. Noticias Univision uses content from Mexico-based broadcaster (and Univision's major content partner) Televisa, Venezuela-based Venevision, Colombia-based RCN TV, Peru-based América Televisión, and regional-wide CNN en Español.
The division's tagline is "Para estar al tanto del acontecer mundial, los hispanos sintonizan Noticias Univision." (English: "To stay on top of what's happening around the world, Hispanics tune into Univision News.")
Overview
The national newscasts began on KMEX-DT in June 1, 1981 when the network was known as the Spanish International Network, and before the network's name change in 1987 was known as Noticiero Nacional SIN. In 1987, Televisa owner Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, who also oversaw SIN (then a subsidiary of the Mexico City-based company), appointed former Televisa news anchor Jacobo Zabludovsky as director of SIN's news division; the move met with protest among staff at the news division, concerned over the extent of the autonomy of SIN's news department and potential censorship in its journalistic practices (specifically, the reporting on the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba, which while recognized in Mexico, did not have aspects that led to the migration of Cubans to the United States), with most news staffers opting to quit.
After Azcárraga and Emilio Nicolas, Sr. subsequently sold their interests in SIN parent Spanish International Communications to Hallmark Cards after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Justice Department asked them to sell the network to a U.S.-based company amid inquiries as to whether Nicolas was being used by the Azcárraga family to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Long | Brad Long is a Canadian chef. He is known for his appearances on the Food Network show Restaurant Makeover, which is seen in over 16 countries worldwide. For ten years Long worked at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment where he was responsible for feeding more than 20 million fans at Toronto's Air Canada Centre and BMO Field. His responsibilities included creating team meals for the organization's NBA and NHL teams; and overseeing quick service, catering and restaurants including The Platinum Club.
The Platinum Club won consecutive Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence every year since 2002; a VQA Restaurant Awards of Excellence; and the International Award of Excellence – Diamond Wine Award in 2004. Meanwhile, the Air Canada Club was ranked by Globe and Mail reviewer Joanne Kates as one of the top 10 restaurants of the year in its inaugural season. Long's previous culinary challenge was to rebuild the food and beverage program at the CN Tower in 1995, amassing several awards during his tenure. The aspiring chef started out in the early 1980s with stints at various restaurants across the country—mostly as a sideline to pay the bills while working as a musician.
In 1990 Long got serious about cooking and became entrenched at Toronto's Pronto Ristorante. While working up to Sous Chef and Chef, and attending school full-time, he studied and traveled extensively through Europe and the United States. Long developed the concept for the Restaurant and Bar called My Place, A Canadian Pub, located at Jane and Bloor in Toronto's West End. Since July 2011, Long has been the owner and chef of Café Belong and Belong Catering at the Evergreen Brick Works.
See also
Cuisine of Toronto
External links
Food Network (Canada)
Brad Long at the Chef and Restaurant Database
Canadian television chefs
Participants in Canadian reality television series
Canadian restaurateurs
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian male chefs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDBW-LP | WDBW-LP (97.3 FM) is a non-commercial low-power FM radio station in Port St. Joe, Florida, broadcasting to the Panama City area. It is part of the Bible Broadcasting Network, along with Belleview-based WYFZ, Gainesville-based WYFB, Lakeland-based WYFO, and Tarpon Springs-based WYFE. WDBW's format is religious programming.
External links
Bible Broadcasting Network official website
Bible Broadcasting Network
DBW-LP
DBW-LP
Radio stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20functional%20programming | Total functional programming (also known as strong functional programming, to be contrasted with ordinary, or weak functional programming) is a programming paradigm that restricts the range of programs to those that are provably terminating.
Restrictions
Termination is guaranteed by the following restrictions:
A restricted form of recursion, which operates only upon 'reduced' forms of its arguments, such as Walther recursion, substructural recursion, or "strongly normalizing" as proven by abstract interpretation of code.
Every function must be a total (as opposed to partial) function. That is, it must have a definition for everything inside its domain.
There are several possible ways to extend commonly used partial functions such as division to be total: choosing an arbitrary result for inputs on which the function is normally undefined (such as for division); adding another argument to specify the result for those inputs; or excluding them by use of type system features such as refinement types.
These restrictions mean that total functional programming is not Turing-complete. However, the set of algorithms that can be used is still huge. For example, any algorithm for which an asymptotic upper bound can be calculated (by a program that itself only uses Walther recursion) can be trivially transformed into a provably-terminating function by using the upper bound as an extra argument decremented on each iteration or recursion.
For example, quicksort is not trivially shown to be substructural recursive, but it only recurs to a maximum depth of the length of the vector (worst-case time complexity O(n2)). A quicksort implementation on lists (which would be rejected by a substructural recursive checker) is, using Haskell:
import Data.List (partition)
qsort [] = []
qsort [a] = [a]
qsort (a:as) = let (lesser, greater) = partition (<a) as
in qsort lesser ++ [a] ++ qsort greater
To make it substructural recursive using the length of the vector as a limit, we could do:
import Data.List (partition)
qsort x = qsortSub x x
-- minimum case
qsortSub [] as = as -- shows termination
-- standard qsort cases
qsortSub (l:ls) [] = [] -- nonrecursive, so accepted
qsortSub (l:ls) [a] = [a] -- nonrecursive, so accepted
qsortSub (l:ls) (a:as) = let (lesser, greater) = partition (<a) as
-- recursive, but recurs on ls, which is a substructure of
-- its first input.
in qsortSub ls lesser ++ [a] ++ qsortSub ls greater
Some classes of algorithms have no theoretical upper bound but do have a practical upper bound (for example, some heuristic-based algorithms can be programmed to "give up" after so many recursions, also ensuring termination).
Another outcome of total functional programming is that both strict evaluation and lazy evaluation result in the same behaviour, in principle; however, one or the other may still be preferable (or even |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Barbados | The Caribbean island of Barbados has a small, albeit growing network of diplomatic and consular missions. As a member-state of the Commonwealth of Nations, Barbadian diplomatic missions in the capitals of other Commonwealth members-states are known as High Commissions instead of embassies.
Excluded from this listing are honorary consulates, trade missions, and offices of the Barbados Tourism Authority.
History
In February 2020 the two Heads of Government for both Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago initialed several agreements including one which would see the sharing of various diplomatic chancery resources around the world.
In November 2021, Barbados announced that it would launch the world's first embassy in the decentralised metaverse, an attempt to reach diplomatic parity.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Multilateral organizations
Gallery
Closed missions
Americas
See also
Foreign relations of Barbados
List of diplomatic missions in Barbados
List of ambassadors and high commissioners to and from Barbados
Visa policy of Barbados
References
External links
Barbados
Diplomatic missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDN | JDN can refer to:
Julian Day Number
Joint Data Network
Jewish Daily News, an international Jewish news aggregator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20hardware | Microsoft Corporation has been selling branded hardware since 1980, and developing devices in-house since 1982, when the Microsoft Hardware division was formed to design a computer mouse for use with Microsoft Word for DOS. Since then, Microsoft has developed computer hardware, gaming hardware and mobile hardware. It also produced drivers and other software for integrating the hardware with Microsoft Windows.
Products
ActiMates toys
Azure Kinect
Digital Sound System 80 speakers
Microsoft Band smartbands
Microsoft Broadband Networking networking products
Microsoft Cordless Phone System phones
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader biometric readers
Microsoft HoloLens smartglasses
Microsoft Keyboard keyboards
Microsoft Kin mobile phones
Microsoft LifeCam webcams
Microsoft LifeChat headsets
Microsoft Lumia smartphones
Microsoft MacEnhancer
Microsoft Mach 20 accelerator board
Microsoft Mouse computer mice
Microsoft Response Point business telephone systems
Microsoft RoundTable videoconferencing devices
Microsoft SideWinder game controllers
Microsoft Surface tablet PCs
Microsoft wireless display adapters
Nokia 3-digit series feature phones
Xbox accessories
Xbox game controllers
Xbox video game consoles
Z-80 SoftCard coprocessor card
Zune portable media players
See also
Computer hardware
References
External links
Windows hardware dev center
The good, bad and ugly history of Microsoft hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesk | Plesk is a commercial web hosting and server data center automation software developed for Linux and Windows-based retail hosting service providers.
It was developed by Plesk International GmbH, a company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with offices in Barcelona, Spain, Cologne, Germany, Tokyo, Japan, and in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia, where it was originally created in 2000 by Dimitri Simonenko.
The hosting automation software was initially released by Plesk Inc. and first went live in 2001. In 2003, Plesk was sold to SWSoft, which became Parallels in 2008. In March 2015, Parallels renamed the service provider division to Odin. In December of the same year, Plesk became a separate business entity. In 2017, British Oakley Capital Limited acquired Plesk and it has since been a part of WebPros, a global SaaS platform for server management. Currently, WebPros comprises Plesk, cPanel, WHMCS, XOVI, and SolusVM.
Licenses
Plesk, with latest version Obsidian 18.x, is available in the following license configurations:
Plesk Web Admin Edition: Up to 10 domains. For basic management of simple websites, without the extended tools and features.
Plesk Web Pro Edition: To manage up to 30 domains. It also includes Plesk WordPress Toolkit full-featured.
Plesk Web Host Edition: Unlimited domains. The administrator can also create additional reseller accounts.
The license price also distinguishes whether a license can be used for a dedicated server or a virtualized server. Licenses for dedicated servers are usually slightly more expensive.
Pricing
Plesk sells all three licenses for a monthly or annual price directly. All three editions can also be obtained from official license resellers.
In March 2018, Plesk announced its first price adjustment in 18 years of business, increasing the prices of all Plesk licenses that had versions earlier than 12. The company alleged it was to cover the increasing cost of support and management over the past two decades. Following the announcement, Plesk created a FAQ page to clarify any questions about the new pricing adjustment.
Support
Live and email support for Plesk is available in English, Russian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Japanese. Plesk licenses purchased directly from Plesk include full free support.
Criticisms
One criticism of Plesk is that the recommended method of removing it is a complete reinstall of the OS after backing up, which complicates the concept of trialware by binding an administrator to the product by facing considerable downtime of a server.
Version history
Timeline
Plesk University
In January 2016, Plesk launched Plesk University online. Through its University, Plesk provides a full range of courses to help users learn how to use their products and services. All courses and exams in their catalog are certified, and access to all of them is free.
See also
Web hosting control panel
Comparison of web hosting control pan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20M.%20Gahlinger | Paul M. Gahlinger, (born in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American scientist, physician, and author. His books include Computer Programs for Epidemiologic Analysis (see Winpepi), Northern Manitoba from Forest to Tundra, The Cockpit, Illegal Drugs, Health for Pilots, Drugs and Justice, and The Medical Tourism Travel Guide.
Biography
Early life
Gahlinger is the son of Anton Josef Gahlinger (1918–1959) and Margrit Rosa (1917–2007), both of whom were citizens of Switzerland. His father was a career military man who commanded the Swiss cavalry in the 1940s and later served as the Captain of the Swiss Guards under Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII. The family subsequently emigrated to Canada, where his father bought a produce farm. The father's early death plunged the family into poverty. Gahlinger left school at age 14 to become a farm worker, and later worked underground at Giant Mine gold mine near Yellowknife in the Canadian Northwest Territories and was a logger for MacMillan Bloedel Limited on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
At age 20, he gained entry to college despite lacking a high school education or diploma. He eventually achieved a B.A. in philosophy from Trent University, an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Manitoba, a PhD in anthropology from the University of Connecticut, an M.P.H. with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.
Gahlinger is a citizen of Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. In 1992, he attained notoriety for his record-breaking flight in a small airplane from California to Egypt (described in The Cockpit).
Career
In 1996, Gahlinger became Chief Medical Officer of Johnston Atoll, a chemical weapons demilitarization site in the mid-Pacific. Under his stewardship, the island obtained JCAHO (Joint Commission) and ISO-9000 accreditation and certification by the Chemical Weapons Convention for health care.
In 2004 Gahlinger wrote the textbook Illegal Drugs: A Complete Guide to Their History, Chemistry, Use and Abuse, a reference on illegal drugs.
Awards
In 1984, he was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science prize in Philosophy of Science for his paper, "The Assignation of Cause" arguing that causality is an operational construct that cannot be determined empirically.
In 1997, he was awarded a medal of distinguished service by the United States Army, Defence Special Weapons, for his development of chemical weapons safety programs.
In 2001, he was elected to Fellow and Master of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Works
1993 (with JH Abramson) Computer Programs for Epidemiologic Analysis Honolulu: Makapuu Medical Press.
1995 Northern Manitoba from Forest to Tundra Lucan, Canada: G.B. Communications.
2000 The Cockpit: A Flight of Escape and Discovery Salt Lake City: Sagebrush Press. (memoir)
2001 Illegal Drugs: A Complete Guide to Their H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Saint%20Vincent%20and%20the%20Grenadines | This is a list of diplomatic missions of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' diplomatic network does not extend to any neighbouring Caribbean countries. The country also has tourism representatives and honorary consulate in other countries (not listed below). Its embassy and mission to the European Union in Brussels and its embassy in Morocco is shared with other East Caribbean states.
Africa
Rabat (Embassy)
Americas
Toronto (Consulate-General)
Havana (Embassy)
Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
New York City (Consulate-General)
Caracas (Embassy)
Asia
Taipei (Embassy)
Europe
Brussels (Embassy)
London (High Commission)
Comber (Consulate-General)
Multilateral organisations
World Trade Organization
Geneva (Permanent Mission)
New York City (Permanent Mission)
Washington, D.C. (Permanent Mission)
Gallery
See also
Foreign relations of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
List of diplomatic missions in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
References
External links
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Details of diplomatic missions of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Diplomatic missions
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRA%20%28computer%29 | The ARRA (for "Automatische Relais Rekenmachine Amsterdam", Automatic Relay Calculator Amsterdam) was the first Dutch computer, and was built from relays for the Dutch Mathematical Centre (Dutch: Mathematisch Centrum), which later became the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).
It was designed and built by Carel Scholten and Bram Loopstra, and was finished in 1952. Because of reliability problems it was soon taken out of commission, and "updated" to the ARRA II, which actually was a completely new design. In December 1953, electronic ARRA II performed its first programs and was completed in 1954.
See also
Other computers designed and built at the Mathematical Centre:
ARRA II (computer)
FERTA (computer)
ARMAC (computer), 1956
Other very early Dutch computers:
P3 (computer)
PASCAL (computer)
PETER (computer)
PTERA (computer), 1953
STEVIN (computer)
Testudo (computer)
X1 (computer)
X2 (computer)
X4 (computer)
X8 (computer)
ZEBRA (computer)
ZERO (computer)
References
External links
Electro-mechanical computers
Science and technology in the Netherlands
One-of-a-kind computers
Computers designed in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboexotica | Roboexotica (sometimes spelled: Roböxotica) is an annual festival and conference where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build cocktail robots and discuss technological innovation, futurology and science fiction.
Roboexotica is also an ironic attempt to criticize techno-triumphalism and to dissect technological hypes.
The festival is currently produced by art collective monochrom. Until 2018, the festival was a cooperation of monochrom, Shifz, and the 'Bureau for Philosophy' (of the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna).
The festival is usually held in the end of November or early December.
Overview
The annual international festival consists of an exhibition, a conference, social events, and the ACRA (Annual Cocktail Robot Award).
The exhibition presents robots that can mix cocktails, serve cocktails, consume cocktails, have bar conversations, light or smoke cigarettes or manage to impress the jury with (quote Roboexotica website) "other achievements in the sector of cocktail culture".
History
Starting in 1993, art and technology group monochrom (Johannes Grenzfurthner, Franz Ablinger) published an alternative magazine and online bulletin that featured blueprints for interesting DIY projects (like creating a DIY isolation tank or building rocket out of an office water cooler) and released articles and pamphlets that criticized the "uninspired and martial" machine culture (e.g. poking fun at Survival Research Labs and etoy) and supported a more playful way to create robots, specifically demanding that robots should "party with us, not work for us."
In 1999, Magnus Wurzer and Chris Veigl (of Shifz) presented a self-made bar robot at the small independent Viennese culture and art space VEKKS. monochrom took interest and participated with performances and presented machines, and soon teamed up with Shifz as organizers and the small event became a big international festival presented at Vienna's Museumsquartier and several other locations in the Vienna metro area. Roboexotica presents around 20 machines every year and draws around 3000 guests per event. The event is attracting robot builders from all over the world.
Roboexotica was presented at Cyberpipe (Ljubljana) in 2006, at Maker Faire (San Francisco) and RoboGames (San Francisco) in 2007.
Bre Pettis got inspired during an art residency in Vienna with Johannes Grenzfurthner/monochrom in 2007, when he wanted to create a robot that could print shot glasses for Roboexotica and did research about the RepRap project at the Vienna hackerspace Metalab. Shot glasses remained a theme throughout the history of MakerBot.
In 2008 a catalogue titled Roboexotica was published, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the festival. The book features reflections on the festival and presents statements by former participants including Cory Doctorow, Dorkbot's Doueglas Repetto, Bre Pettis, V. Vale, Karen Marcelo of Survival Research Laboratories or RoboGames' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTCD | OTCD may refer to:
Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
Over-the-counter data
Over-the-counter derivative, see over-the-counter (finance)
Over-the-counter drug
On the Company Dime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Corps%20Total%20Force%20System | Marine Corps Total Force System (MCTFS) is the integrated pay and personnel system for active duty and reserve Marines, and the authoritative source of data for all Marine Corps (MC) pay and personnel information consisting of over 550,000 records. MCTFS has been successfully fielded and is currently in the post-deployment system support phase of its lifecycle. MCTFS supports centralized business-critical pay functions for the Marine Corps Enterprise on time and accurately, including computation and payment of net pay to individual Marines, while accommodating all necessary system change requests to meet current legislative, regulatory, mission essential, force reset, and contingency change requirements. MCTFS is maintained in an audit compliant state to ensure accurate financial transactions and reporting. MCTFS includes a comprehensive history of pay entitlements, deductions, and payments for each active duty and reserve Marine. The principal advocate within the Marine Corps is the Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Mission
The mission of the MCTFS is to provide integrated personnel and pay functionality for all active and reserve Marines within a single system and personnel management for retirees, by using a single, logical database which incorporates the records of all active, reserve and retired Marines. Additionally, the MCTFS will provide limited functionality for training and security management matters that pertain to personnel and pay management.
Purpose
The system provides for recording, processing, and maintaining of military personnel and pay data on a continuing basis within the Marine Corps. It provides information for pay, personnel administration, and manpower management. It uses an integrated, single logical data base to process transactions, at one central location at the Defense Enterprise Computing Center (DECC) in Mechanicsburg. This supports all operating forces and supporting establishment organizations, which total over 800 reporting units (RU's). Use of this information facilitates:
Planning and execution of manpower personnel functions, including:
Personnel Management/Accountability/Security
Military pay
Training
Distribution
Assignment/Mobilization
Promotion
Classification
Separation
Preparation of budgets
Development of improved manpower management techniques
Recruiting
Recording historical data of the United States Marine Corps
Reporting purposes
The data collection of the MCTFS is based on the principle of singular reporting. Whenever practical, an event is reported when and where it occurs to ensure accuracy and timeliness of reporting. An item of information is entered into the system only once; thereafter, only changes, deletions, or corrections to this information are reported. MCTFS uses a centralized strategy and management style with decentralized execution at the lowest reporting level. The information maintained within the MCTFS is used for the functions described above. Additionally, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server%20administrator | This article concentrates on server administration in the context of computer gaming. For generic server administration, see system administrator. For the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator product see OpenManage.
A server administrator, or admin has the overall control of a server. This is usually in the context of a business organization, where a server administrator oversees the performance and condition of multiple servers in the business organization, or it can be in the context of a single person running a game server.
The Server Administrator's role is to design, install, administer, and optimize company servers and related components to achieve high performance of the various business functions supported by the servers as necessary. This includes ensuring the availability of client/server applications, configuring all new implementations, and developing processes and procedures for ongoing management of the server environment. Where applicable, the Server Administrator will assist in overseeing the physical security, integrity, and safety of the data center/server farm.
Servers (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Ignition | Microsoft Ignition is a music network operated by Microsoft that spans across Windows PCs, Xbox 360 gaming console and Zune music player. Ignition makes available music and music videos across all supported device types and also can be used for promotion of musical artists.
References
Microsoft
Zune
Xbox 360 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal-Marine%20Automated%20Network | The Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) is a meteorological observation network along the coastal United States. Consisting of about sixty stations installed on lighthouses, at capes and beaches, on near shore islands, and on offshore platforms, the stations record atmospheric pressure, wind direction, speed and gust, and air temperature; however, some C-MAN stations are designed to also measure sea surface temperature, water level, waves, relative humidity, precipitation, and visibility.
The network is maintained by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) of the National Weather Service (NWS), which is part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and data is ingested into numerical weather prediction computer models. It was created in the early 1980s to maintain observations that were about to be discontinued by other programs. Data is processed and transmitted similarly to the moored buoy system.
In 2002, C-MAN was added to the NOAA Observing System Architecture (NOSA).
See also
List of cabled observatories
Shipping Forecast
External links
National Data Buoy Center C-MAN site
C-MAN on NOSA
Meteorological data and networks
Meteorological instrumentation and equipment
Oceanographic instrumentation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDES | PDES may refer to:
ISO 10303 - an international standard resulting from the Product Data Exchange Specification effort
Partial differential equations
Party for Economic Development and Solidarity
Process Development Execution System -- systems supporting the execution of high-tech manufacturing process developments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial%20code | Most real world data sets consist of data vectors whose individual components are not statistically independent. In other words, knowing the value of an element will provide information about the value of elements in the data vector. When this occurs, it can be desirable to create a factorial code of the data, i.e., a new vector-valued representation of each data vector such that it gets uniquely encoded by the resulting code vector (loss-free coding), but the code components are statistically independent.
Later supervised learning usually works much better when the raw input data is first translated into such a factorial code. For example, suppose the final goal is to classify images with highly redundant pixels. A naive Bayes classifier will assume the pixels are statistically independent random variables and therefore fail to produce good results. If the data are first encoded in a factorial way, however, then the naive Bayes classifier will achieve its optimal performance (compare Schmidhuber et al. 1996).
To create factorial codes, Horace Barlow and co-workers suggested to minimize the sum of the bit entropies of the code components of binary codes (1989). Jürgen Schmidhuber (1992) re-formulated the problem in terms of predictors and binary feature detectors, each receiving the raw data as an input. For each detector there is a predictor that sees the other detectors and learns to predict the output of its own detector in response to the various input vectors or images. But each detector uses a machine learning algorithm to become as unpredictable as possible. The global optimum of this objective function corresponds to a factorial code represented in a distributed fashion across the outputs of the feature detectors.
Painsky, Rosset and Feder (2016, 2017) further studied this problem in the context of independent component analysis over finite alphabet sizes. Through a series of theorems they show that the factorial coding problem can be accurately solved with a branch and bound search tree algorithm, or tightly approximated with a series of linear problems. In addition, they introduce a simple transformation (namely, order permutation) which provides a greedy yet very effective approximation of the optimal solution. Practically, they show that with a careful implementation, the favorable properties of the order permutation may be achieved in an asymptotically optimal computational complexity. Importantly, they provide theoretical guarantees, showing that while not every random vector can be efficiently decomposed into independent components, the majority of vectors do decompose very well (that is, with a small constant cost), as the dimension increases. In addition, they demonstrate the use of factorial codes to data compression in multiple setups (2017).
See also
Blind signal separation (BSS)
Principal component analysis (PCA)
Factor analysis
Unsupervised learning
Image processing
Signal processing
References
Horace Bar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCTE | PCTE can refer to:
Portable Common Tool Environment, an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 13719) and ECMA standard (ECMA-149) for exchanging data between Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools
Punjab College of Technical Education, a Management and technical education institution in Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (Partido Comunista de los Trabajadores de España), a Spanish political party. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTNO-CD | WTNO-CD (channel 22) is a low-power, Class A television station in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Estrella TV. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings, and maintains offices on Caneel Court in Terrytown; its transmitter is located on Airline Drive/US 61 in Metairie.
History
The station's construction permit was issued on August 28, 1989, under the calls of K22DJ. It then changed to WTNO-LP on December 12, 1997.
The station was licensed for digital operation as a Class A service effective May 28, 2015, and changed its call sign to WTNO-CD on September 27, 2022.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Estrella TV official website
Innovate Corp.
Television stations in New Orleans
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Low-power television stations in Louisiana
1995 establishments in Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySecureCyberspace | MySecureCyberspace began in 2003 as an initiative by Carnegie Mellon CyLab and the Information Networking Institute to educate the public about computer security, network security and Internet safety. Inspired by the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the initiative empowers users to secure their part of cyberspace.
The initiative created a web portal at www.MySecureCyberspace.com that customized information to users about cybersecurity threats, in addition to tactical countermeasures and legal, ethical, and privacy issues. For example, using the Secure My Cyberspace tool on the web portal, a user could enter an online activity, such as email, and receive an explanation of common threats and issues associated with that activity, such as spam and phishing scams, and then receive advice on how to resolve those problems. As a web portal, MySecureCyberspace served people of all ages and roles, but certain areas of the web portal contained articles and resources specifically for parents, educators and children.
From 2005 to 2012, MySecureCyberspace provided a Flash-based interactive game designed for elementary school children at www.CarnegieCyberAcademy.com called Carnegie Cadets that reinforced principles of safe and responsible computing. Enriched with content and classroom material that complied with the National Educational Technology Standards, the game could be integrated into fourth and fifth grade curricula. The Carnegie Cyber Academy website and supporting materials remain available, but the game is not compatible with current operating systems.
History
Through a grant from the National Science Foundation, CyLab and the Information Networking Institute launched the web portal in April 2005, which included a prototype of the online Carnegie Cadets game.
Carnegie Cadets:The MySecureCyberspace Game and its companion website officially launched on October 26, 2007 during a demonstration at J.H. Brooks Elementary School in Pittsburgh. PA Attorney General Tom Corbett attended the kickoff event and endorsed the game.
Recognition
Finalist status for the 2009 Japan Prize
Silver Awards of Distinction, Education and Children's Audience categories, 2009 Communicator Awards
Merit Award, Online Communication, The Pittsburgh Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, May 2007
References
External links
Carnegie Mellon CyLab
Information Networking Institute official site
National Educational Technology Standards
Computer network security
Internet safety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNARK%20%28theorem%20prover%29 | SNARK, (SRI's New Automated Reasoning Kit), is a theorem prover for multi-sorted first-order logic intended for applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering, developed at SRI International.
SNARK's principal inference mechanisms are resolution and paramodulation; in addition it offers specialized decision procedures for particular domains, e.g., a constraint solver for Allen's temporal interval logic. In contrast to many other theorem provers is fully automated (non-interactive). SNARK offers many strategic controls for adjusting its search behavior and thus tune its performance to particular applications. This, together with its use of multi-sorted logic and facilities for integrating special-purpose reasoning procedures with general-purpose inference make it particularly suited as reasoner for large sets of assertions.
SNARK is used as reasoning component in the NASA Intelligent Systems Project. It is written in Common Lisp and available under the Mozilla Public License.
See also
Automated reasoning
Automated theorem proving
Computer-aided proof
First-order logic
Formal verification
References
M. Stickel, R. Waldinger, M. Lowry, T. Pressburger, and I. Underwood. "Deductive composition of astronomical software from subroutine libraries." Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-12), Nancy, France, June 1994, pages 341–355.
Richard Waldinger, Martin Reddy, and Jennifer Dungan. "Deductive Composition of Multiple Data Sources." May 2002 Progress Report of the Intelligent Data Understanding Research Task, Intelligent System Project, NASA SISM.
R, Waldinger, D. E. Appelt, J. Fry, D. J. Israel, P. Jarvis, D. Martin, S. Riehemann, M. E. Stickel, M. Tyson, J. Hobbs, and J. L. Dungan. "Deductive Question Answering from Multiple Resources." in New Directions in Question Answering, AAAI, 2004.
R. Waldinger, P. Jarvis, and J. Dungan. "Using Deduction to Choreograph Multiple Data Sources." In Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving, Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003.
External links
SNARK homepage at SRI
SNARK tutorial
Free theorem provers
Common Lisp (programming language) software
SRI International software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC%20Tee%20Vee | MC Tee Vee is a music program that was broadcast on Australia's SBS TV television network in the early- to mid-1990s. It was a 30-minute dance music video showcase hosted by Annette Shun Wah.
MC Tee Vee was included in Television.au's SBS history of programming highlights Programming highlights from the first twenty years have included the 1982 award-winning mini-series Women Of The Sun; the American mini-series The Civil War; music programs Rock Around The World, The Noise, MC Tee Vee and Alchemy; drama series including The Girl From Steel City, City West, House Gang and Going Home; current affairs programs Dateline; Aboriginal affairs program ICAM; the long-running Movie Show; the American animated cult favourites South Park and Happy Tree Friends; the annual Eurovision Song Contest; and of course the network's proud soccer coverage which brought the game to Australian prime time television for the first time — in particular the FIFA World Cup telecasts which have achieved the network's highest ratings ever - Television.au
The program was the first Australian national broadcast television music program dedicated to dance, rap and house music.
See also
List of Australian music television shows
References
Australian music television series
Special Broadcasting Service original programming
1990s Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20in%20Thunder%20Bay | This is a list of media outlets in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Television
Thunder Bay receives CTV and Global service from a locally owned twinstick operation rather than network-owned stations, the largest city in Canada and the only one in Ontario with such an arrangement.
Thunder Bay Television usually uses the on-air branding scheme of Thunder Bay Television, and then the name of the network to which the channel is affiliated, except in cases when the channel is airing programming from a network to which it is not affiliated, when the network name is substituted for the channel's call sign.
WBKP channel 5, the CW affiliate in Calumet, Michigan can be received in Thunder Bay with an outdoor roof antenna and a digital-capable television or receiver.
Cable
The cable provider in Thunder Bay is Shaw. The community channel on Shaw Cable is branded as Shaw TV, and airs on cable channel 10.
American network affiliates on cable in Thunder Bay come from Minneapolis–Saint Paul: KSTP-TV (ABC), WCCO-TV (CBS), KARE (NBC), KTCA (PBS/TPT) and KMSP-TV (Fox). Other Canadian network affiliates available to all cable subscribers in Thunder Bay include CBLT-DT (CBC) and CBLFT-DT (Ici Radio-Canada) from Toronto, Ontario and CFTM-DT (TVA) from Montreal, Quebec.
Radio
Thunder Bay is home to 11 radio stations, all of which broadcast on the FM band.
There are four commercial radio stations based in the city — Rock 94.3 and CKPR 91.5, owned by Dougall Media, the parent company of Thunder Bay Television and Thunder Bay's Source, and 99.9 The Bay and Country 105, owned by Acadia Broadcasting Limited. The city receives CBC Radio One as CBQT-FM and CBC Music as CBQ-FM, at 88.3 FM and 101.7 FM respectively. The French Première Chaîne is available as a repeater of Sudbury-based CBON-FM on 89.3 FM. Lakehead University operates a campus radio station, CILU-FM, at 102.7 FM.
On May 16, 2008, the Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada was given approval by the CRTC for a broadcasting licence to operate a specialty low-power FM commercial radio programming undertaking in Pickle Lake and a transmitter in Thunder Bay. The station broadcasts at 96.5 FM in Pickle Lake and has a rebroadcaster at 98.1 FM in Thunder Bay. It airs content in English, Ojibwe, Cree, and Oji-Cree
Out-of-market radio
One station, CFQK, operates outside of Thunder Bay, broadcasting on 104.5 FM in Kaministiquia. The main signal is not widely receivable in Thunder Bay itself, although the station also has a rebroadcaster on 103.5 FM in Shuniah, with the call sign CKED, which can be heard in the northeastern part of Thunder Bay. As of 2020, the station broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format, branded as Energy 103 & 104. CFQK-FM and its rebroadcaster CKED-FM had gone through a number of format changes since the station was launched in 2002.
Print media
Thunder Bay has one daily newspaper, The Chronicle-Journal, which has a circulation of approximately 28,000 and has coverage of all o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Urban%20Entertainment%20Television | New Urban Entertainment Television (NUE-TV) was an American cable network targeted toward African-American audiences. It was a direct competitor to Black Entertainment Television (BET), but was aiming for a more mature audience with more news. It operated between July 17, 2000 and October 31, 2002 and reached close to 3 million subscribers. In 2003, it was permanently shut down due to financial difficulties. A big investor was Radio One and many employees came from BET.
See also
Black Entertainment Television
Urban One
Black Family Channel (formerly MBC)
References
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fountain%20Theatre | The Fountain Theatre is a theatre in Los Angeles. Along with its programming of live theatre, it's also the foremost producer of flamenco on the West Coast.
History
The Fountain Theatre was founded in Los Angeles in 1990 by co-artistic directors Deborah Lawlor (wife of Robert Lawlor) and Stephen Sachs. Simon Levy, producing director and dramaturge, joined in 1993 as a resident director, producer, and playwright.
The Fountain Theatre's activities include a year-round season of fully produced new and established plays. It has mounted 35 world premieres and also 31 US, West-Coast, Southern-California, or Los Angeles premieres. The Fountain also offers a full season of multi-ethnic dance, being the foremost presenters of flamenco in Los Angeles, educational outreach programs, and national/international tours. Fountain Theatre projects have been seen in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Seattle, Chicago, Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, Minneapolis, London, and Edinburgh, among other cities and countries.
Flamenco
The Fountain Theatre showcases flamenco every month, and is the foremost producer of flamenco on the West Coast.
The theatre is featured prominently in the 2011 documentary, Kumpanía: Flamenco Los Angeles. Live performances and interviews with flamenco dancers and musicians filmed in the theatre are presented, and co-artistic director Deborah Lawlor is also interviewed in the film.
Awards and honors
Fountain Theatre productions have won more than 220 awards for all areas of production, performance, and design. The Fountain Theatre has received more nominations and won more awards than any other intimate theater in the history of the Ovation Awards.
The Fountain has been honored with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Los Angeles City Council for demonstrating years of artistic excellence and "enhancing the cultural life of Los Angeles". It was the recipient of the 2004 Hollywood Arts Council's "Charlie" Award for Live Theatre and Significant Artistic Contribution to Hollywood. In 2009, the LA Weekly named the Fountain Theatre as "one of the Best Theatre Companies of the Decade". In 2011, Broadway World said, "The Fountain Theatre is by the far the best and the brightest that Los Angeles has to offer." In 2012 the Wall Street Journal declared "The Fountain Theatre is one of this country's best intimate regional houses."
Productions
The Normal Heart (2013) by Larry Kramer
Heart Song (2013) by Stephen Sachs
On the Spectrum (2013) by Ken LaZebnik
In the Red and Brown Water (2012–2013) by Tarell Alvin McCraney
The Blue Iris (2012) by Athol Fugard
Cyrano (2012) by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Stephen Sachs
El Nogalar (2012) by Tanya Saracho
Bakersfield Mist (2011) by Stephen Sachs – an NNPN Rolling World Premiere
A House Not Meant to Stand (2011) by Tennessee Williams
The Train Driver (2010–2011) by Athol Fugard
Opus (2010) by Michael Hollinger
The Ballad of Emmett Till (2010) by Ifa Bayeza
Shining City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20One%20Where%20Ross%20Is%20Fine | "The One Where Ross Is Fine" is the second episode of Friends tenth season. It first aired on the NBC network in the United States on October 2, 2003.
Plot
Rachel and Joey think Ross might have problems with their new relationship, but Ross assures them he is fine. Ross invites Rachel and Joey on a double-date with him and Charlie. They agree, but Ross gets drunk during the awkward date. Joey stays with Ross overnight to make sure he is okay and they talk. Ross realizes that he has been apart from Rachel for so long that he should not stop Joey and Rachel's relationship. He does give Joey his blessing even though it still hurts him, because they should see where the relationship is going.
Monica and Chandler are having trouble figuring out the adoption process, so Phoebe sends them to a couple who have adopted. Monica and Chandler meet them and Monica instantly gets along with the woman (Kellie Waymire); however later Chandler casually mentions to their son (Daryl Sabara) that he was adopted only to find out that he did not know about it. Chandler also reveals that Santa is not real. The couple then kick out Monica and Chandler after finding out about both things, and about Chandler trying to bribe him.
Phoebe hangs out with her brother Frank (Giovanni Ribisi) and his triplets. The kids are driving Frank crazy and he offers Phoebe one of them. He comes to the realization that he could not possibly give up any of the children so Phoebe offers to babysit so Frank and Alice will have more time to relax. The episode ends with Chandler accidentally revealing to the triplets that Phoebe gave birth to them; embarrassed, he leaves to tell Emma she was an accident.
Reception
In the original broadcast, the episode was viewed by 22.38 million viewers. Sam Ashurst from Digital Spy ranked the episode #5 on their ranking of the 236 Friends episodes. Telegraph & Argus ranked the episode #17 on their ranking of all 236 Friends episodes.
References
2003 American television episodes
Friends (season 10) episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading%20Building%20Blocks | oneAPI Threading Building Blocks (oneTBB; formerly Threading Building Blocks or TBB), is a C++ template library developed by Intel for parallel programming on multi-core processors. Using TBB, a computation is broken down into tasks that can run in parallel. The library manages and schedules threads to execute these tasks.
Overview
A oneTBB program creates, synchronizes, and destroys graphs of dependent tasks according to algorithms, i.e. high-level parallel programming paradigms (a.k.a. Algorithmic Skeletons). Tasks are then executed respecting graph dependencies. This approach groups TBB in a family of techniques for parallel programming aiming to decouple the programming from the particulars of the underlying machine.
oneTBB implements work stealing to balance a parallel workload across available processing cores in order to increase core utilization and therefore scaling. Initially, the workload is evenly divided among the available processor cores. If one core completes its work while other cores still have a significant amount of work in their queue, oneTBB reassigns some of the work from one of the busy cores to the idle core. This dynamic capability decouples the programmer from the machine, allowing applications written using the library to scale to utilize the available processing cores with no changes to the source code or the executable program file. In a 2008 assessment of the work stealing implementation in TBB, researchers from Princeton University found that it was suboptimal for large numbers of processors cores, causing up to 47% of computing time spent in scheduling overhead when running certain benchmarks on a 32-core system.
oneTBB, like the STL (and the part of the C++ standard library based on it), uses templates extensively. This has the advantage of low-overhead polymorphism, since templates are a compile-time construct which modern C++ compilers can largely optimize away.
oneTBB is available commercially as a binary distribution with support, and as open-source software in both source and binary forms.
oneTBB does not provide guarantees of determinism or freedom from data races.
Library contents
oneTBB is a collection of components for parallel programming:
Basic algorithms: parallel_for, parallel_reduce, parallel_scan
Advanced algorithms: parallel_pipeline, parallel_sort
Containers: concurrent_queue, concurrent_priority_queue, concurrent_vector, concurrent_hash_map, concurrent_unordered_map, concurrent_unordered_set, concurrent_map, concurrent_set
Memory allocation: scalable_malloc, scalable_free, scalable_realloc, scalable_calloc, scalable_allocator, cache_aligned_allocator
Mutual exclusion: mutex, spin_mutex, queuing_mutex, spin_rw_mutex, queuing_rw_mutex, recursive_mutex
Timing: portable fine grained global time stamp
Task scheduler: direct access to control the creation and activation of tasks
See also
Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit
Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP)
Intel oneAPI Data Analytic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfold | Unfold may refer to:
Science
Unfoldable cardinal, in mathematics
Unfold (higher-order function), in computer science a family of anamorphism functions
Unfoldment (disambiguation), in spirituality and physics
Unfolded protein response, in biochemistry
Equilibrium unfolding, in biochemistry
Unfolded state (denatured protein), in biochemistry
Maximum variance unfolding (semidefinite embedding), in computer science
Music
Unfold (Marié Digby album), 2008
Unfold (John O'Callaghan album), 2011
Unfold (The Necks album), 2017
"Unfold" (Porter Robinson song), 2021
"Unfold", a song by De La Soul from the 2016 album And the Anonymous Nobody...
See also
Fold (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Performance%20Primitives | Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is a multi-threaded software library of functions for multimedia and data processing applications, produced by Intel.
The library supports Intel and compatible processors and is available for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android operating systems. It is available separately or as a part of Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit.
Features
The library takes advantage of processor features including MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, AES-NI and multi-core processors.
Intel IPP includes functions for:
Video decode/encode
Audio decode/encode
JPEG/JPEG2000/JPEG XR
Computer vision
Cryptography
Data compression
Image color conversion
Image processing
Ray tracing and Rendering
Signal processing
Speech coding
Speech recognition
String processing
Vector and matrix mathematics
Organization
Intel IPP is divided into four major processing groups: Signal (with linear array or vector data), Image (with 2D arrays for typical color spaces), Data Compression and Cryptography.
Half the entry points are of the matrix type, a third are of the signal type and the remainder are of the image and cryptography types. Intel IPP functions are divided into 4 data types: Data types include 8u (8-bit unsigned), 8s (8-bit signed), 16s, 32f (32-bit floating-point), 64f, etc. Typically, an application developer works with only one dominant data type for most processing functions, converting between input to processing to output formats at the end points.
History
Version 2.0 files are dated April 22, 2002.
Version 3.0
Version 4.0 files are dated November 11, 2003. 4.0 runtime fully supports applications coded for 3.0 and 2.0.
Version 5.1 files are dated March 9, 2006. 5.1 runtime does not support applications coded for 4.0 or before.
Version 5.2 files are dated April 11, 2007. 5.2 runtime does not support applications coded for 5.1 or before. Introduced June 5, 2007, adding code samples for data compression, new video codec support, support for 64-bit applications on Mac OS X, support for Windows Vista, and new functions for ray-tracing and rendering.
Version 6.1 was released with the Intel C++ Compiler on June 28, 2009. Update 1 for version 6.1 was released on July 28, 2009. Update 2 files are dated October 19, 2009.
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Version 9.0 Initial Release, August 25, 2015
Version 9.0 Update 1, December 1, 2015
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Version 2017 Update 3, February 28, 2016
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen%20Fit%20Camp | Teen Fit Camp was an Australian reality show broadcast by Network Ten. It followed a group of overweight Australian teenagers chosen to participate in a special weight loss program.
Broadcast
Teen Fit Camp premiered in June 2007 on Ten in the Thursday 7:30pm time slot. However, despite critical acclaim, after several weeks the series was replaced by Pirate Master and the remaining episodes were aired during a Sunday afternoon slot.
References
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings
2000s Australian reality television series
Network 10 original programming
Television shows set in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Azerbaijani%20films%20of%20the%201950s | A list of films produced in Azerbaijan SSR ordered by year of release in the 1950s:
Films:1918–1990 see also List of Soviet films
1950s
External links
Azerbaijani film at the Internet Movie Database
Azerbaycan Kinosu
Lists of 1950s films
1950
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Azerbaijani%20films%20of%20the%201990s | A list of earliest films produced in Azerbaijan ordered by year of release in the 1990s:
1990s
External links
Azerbaijani film at the Internet Movie Database
Azerbaycan Kinosu
1990
Azerb
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Azerbaijani%20films%20of%20the%202000s | A list of the most recent films produced in Azerbaijan ordered by year of release in the 2000s (decade):
2000s
External links
Azerbaijani film at the Internet Movie Database
Azerbaycan Kinosu
2000
Aezerb
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspase%203 | Caspase-3 is a caspase protein that interacts with caspase-8 and caspase-9. It is encoded by the CASP3 gene. CASP3 orthologs have been identified in numerous mammals for which complete genome data are available. Unique orthologs are also present in birds, lizards, lissamphibians, and teleosts.
The CASP3 protein is a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes that undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, large and small, that dimerize to form the active enzyme. This protein cleaves and activates caspases 6 and 7; and the protein itself is processed and activated by caspases 8, 9, and 10. It is the predominant caspase involved in the cleavage of amyloid-beta 4A precursor protein, which is associated with neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease. Alternative splicing of this gene results in two transcript variants that encode the same protein.
Caspase-3 shares many of the typical characteristics common to all currently-known caspases. For example, its active site contains a cysteine residue (Cys-163) and histidine residue (His-121) that stabilize the peptide bond cleavage of a protein sequence to the carboxy-terminal side of an aspartic acid when it is part of a particular 4-amino acid sequence. This specificity allows caspases to be incredibly selective, with a 20,000-fold preference for aspartic acid over glutamic acid. A key feature of caspases in the cell is that they are present as zymogens, termed procaspases, which are inactive until a biochemical change causes their activation. Each procaspase has an N-terminal large subunit of about 20 kDa followed by a smaller subunit of about 10 kDa, called p20 and p10, respectively.
Substrate specificity
Under normal circumstances, caspases recognize tetra-peptide sequences on their substrates and hydrolyze peptide bonds after aspartic acid residues. Caspase 3 and caspase 7 share similar substrate specificity by recognizing tetra-peptide motif Asp-x-x-Asp. The C-terminal Asp is absolutely required while variations at other three positions can be tolerated. Caspase substrate specificity has been widely used in caspase based inhibitor and drug design.
Structure
Caspase-3, in particular, (also known as CPP32/Yama/apopain) is formed from a 32 kDa zymogen that is cleaved into 17 kDa and 12 kDa subunits. When the procaspase is cleaved at a particular residue, the active heterotetramer can then be formed by hydrophobic interactions, causing four anti-parallel beta-sheets from p17 and two from p12 to come together to make a heterodimer, which in turn interacts with another heterodimer to form the full 12-stranded beta-sheet structure surrounded by alpha-helices that is unique to caspases. When the heterodimers align head-to-tail with each other, an active site is positioned at each end of the molecule for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsiege | Earthsiege is a series of games, spun off from the Metaltech series, which led into the Starsiege and Tribes (series) afterward. It includes:
Metaltech: Earthsiege
Earthsiege 2
The CyberStorm series.
Starsiege |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty%20paper%20coding | In telecommunications, dirty paper coding (DPC) or Costa precoding is a technique for efficient transmission of digital data through a channel subjected to some interference known to the transmitter. The technique consists of precoding the data in order to cancel the interference. Dirty-paper coding achieves the channel capacity, without a power penalty and without requiring the receiver to know the interfering signal.
The term dirty paper coding was coined by Max Costa who compared the technique to writing a message on a piece of paper which is partially soiled with random ink strokes or spots. By erasing and adding ink in the proper places, the writer can convey just as much information as if the paper were clean, even though the reader does not know where the dirt was. In this analogy, the paper is the channel, the dirt is interference, the writer is the transmitter, and the reader is the receiver.
Note that DPC at the encoder is an information-theoretic dual of Wyner-Ziv coding at the decoder.
Variants
Instances of dirty paper coding include Costa precoding (1983). Suboptimal approximations of dirty paper coding include Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) published in 1971 and the vector perturbation technique of Hochwald et al. (2005).
Design considerations
DPC and DPC-like techniques require knowledge of the interference state in a non causal manner, such as channel state information of all users and other user data. Hence, the design of a DPC-based system should include a procedure to feed side information to the transmitters.
Applications
In 2003, Caire and Shamai applied DPC to the multi-antenna multi-user downlink, which is referred to as the 'broadcast channel' by information theorists. Since then, there has been widespread use of DPC in wireless networks and into an interference aware coding technique for dynamic wireless networks.
Recently, DPC has also been used for "informed digital watermarking" and is the modulation mechanism used by 10GBASE-T.
See also
Cognitive radio
Multiple-input multiple-output communications
Multi-user MIMO
Palimpsest
References
External links
"Writing on Dirty Paper", the original publication by Max Costa
Encodings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuspath | Meuspath is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Local business
Meuspath is the home of wige Solutions gmbh, who provide official timing data for motorsports events such as the 24 Hours Nürburgring.
References
Ahrweiler (district) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berendsen%20thermostat | The Berendsen thermostat is an algorithm to re-scale the velocities of particles in molecular dynamics simulations to control the simulation temperature.
Basic description
In this scheme, the system is weakly coupled to a heat bath with some temperature. The thermostat suppresses fluctuations of the kinetic energy of the system and therefore cannot produce trajectories consistent with the canonical ensemble. The temperature of the system is corrected such that the deviation exponentially decays with some time constant .
Though the thermostat does not generate a correct canonical ensemble (especially for small systems), for large systems on the order of hundreds or thousands of atoms/molecules, the approximation yields roughly correct results for most calculated properties. The scheme is widely used due to the efficiency with which it relaxes a system to some target (bath) temperature. In many instances, systems are initially equilibrated using the Berendsen scheme, while properties are calculated using the widely known Nosé–Hoover thermostat, which correctly generates trajectories consistent with a canonical ensemble. However, the Berendsen thermostat can result in the flying ice cube effect, an artifact which can be eliminated by using the more rigorous Bussi–Donadio–Parrinello thermostat; for this reason, it has been recommended that usage of the Berendsen thermostat be discontinued in almost all cases except for replication of prior studies.
See also
Molecular mechanics
Software for molecular mechanics modeling
References
Molecular dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Sensory%20Network | The European Sensory Network (ESN) is an international association of leading academic and research institutions in the field of sensory and consumer sciences. ESN members share their knowledge and expertise and work towards standard methodologies. The network was founded in 1989 to meet the challenge of the rapidly developing science of sensory analysis.
Aims
The aims of the European Sensory Network are:
to further the development and application of sensory science in Europe
to improve sensory and consumer testing methodology for the benefit of the European food and non-food industry, e.g. by ensuring rapid feedback on research results of practical relevance to the industry
to promote the application of sensory analysis in the industry; e.g. by in-house training and seminars
Activities
ESN activities cover the following areas:
Internal meetings to exchange experiences, to raise and discuss methodological questions, and to create new concepts and plans for co-operative research
Information/Education: since its foundation ESN has regularly organised international seminars and conferences for industry participants in various countries.
Method development and testing: new methods have been developed, internationally tested and compared
Collaborative research: sensory and consumer studies on an international scale; publication of results in international reviews
A focus of ESN activities is on cross-border studies. ESN offers numerous cross-border links between sensory scientists and industrial partners. Through the network the members provide international contacts for industry regarding sensory analysis and consumer studies.
ESN Studies
Some examples:
Proficiency Testing in Sensory Analysis : within the frame of the EU-funded project "ProfiSens", ESN has contributed to the development of international guidelines on how to evaluate panel performance and on how to monitor the consistency and comparability of test data in sensory laboratories.
Calibration methods: ESN members took part in the EU-funded project "Calibsensory", which developed reference samples and calibration procedures for sensory testing of food contact materials (paper and board).
By its participation in the EU study „Healthy aging“ (HealthSense), ESN members have contributed to new findings on how changes in sensory physiology, sensory psychology and socio-cognitive factors influence food choice in old age.
In the EU-project „Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence (HELENA) ESN members have compared eating habits of young people in five different European countries and identified barriers to healthy eating. They are involved in the development of new appealing healthy foods for young European consumers.
References
External links
ESN website
International scientific organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomtronics | Atomtronics is an emerging type of computing consisting of matter-wave circuits which coherently guide propagating ultra-cold atoms. The systems typically include components analogous to those found in electronic or optical systems, such as beam splitters and transistors. Applications range from studies of fundamental physics to the development of practical devices.
Etymology
Atomtronics is a portmanteau of "atom" and "electronics", in reference to the creation of atomic analogues of electronic components, such as transistors and diodes, and also electronic materials such as semiconductors. The field itself has considerable overlap with atom optics and quantum simulation, and is not strictly limited to the development of electronic-like components.
Methodology
Three major elements are required for an atomtronic circuit. The first is a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is needed for its coherent and superfluid properties, although an ultracold Fermi gas may also be used for certain applications. The second is a tailored trapping potential, which can be generated optically, magnetically, or using a combination of both. The final element is a method to induce the movement of atoms within the potential, which can be achieved in several ways. For example, a transistor-like atomtronic circuit may be realized by a ring-shaped trap divided into two by two moveable weak barriers, with the two separate parts of the ring acting as the drain and the source and the barriers acting as the gate. As the barriers move, atoms flow from the source to the drain. It is now possible to coherently guide matterwaves over distances of up to 40 cm in ring-shaped atomtronic matterwave guides.
Applications
The field of atomtronics is still very young. Any schemes realized thus far are proof-of-principle. Applications include:
gravimetry
rotational sensing via the Sagnac effect
quantum computing
Obstacles to the development of practical sensing devices are largely due to the technical challenges of creating Bose-Einstein condensates. They require bulky lab-based setups not easily suitable for transportation. However, creating portable experimental setups is an active area of research.
See also
Unconventional computing
References
External links
Electronics
Emerging technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DQN | DQN could refer to:
Du Quoin station, Amtrak station code DQN
Station code for Dhanera station, Gujarat, India - see List of railway stations in India
Deep Q-Network, used in Deep Q-learning
An internet slang used as derogatory name in Japan. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box%20model | The term box model may refer to:
Box modeling, in computer graphics
Climate box models, in climatology
Gravity current box models, in fluid mechanics
CSS box model in web development
See also
Internet Explorer box model bug, in the implementation of the CSS box model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFZ | SFZ or sfz may refer to:
Sforzando, a dynamic marking in music
Sforzando (band), a Celtic music band from Australia
SFZ (file format), a plain text file format for instrument data in software synthesizers
Slovak Football Association
Sorong Fault Zone, a geological fault line in Western Pacific Ocean
Star Fox Zero, a video game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20neighborhood%20network | Flat Neighborhood Network (FNN) is a topology for distributed computing and other computer networks. Each node connects to two or more switches which, ideally, entirely cover the node collection, so that each node can connect to any other node in two "hops" (jump up to one switch and down to the other node). This contrasts to topologies with fewer cables per node which communicate with remote nodes via intermediate nodes, as in Hypercube (see The Connection Machine).
See also
Thinking Machines Corporation built the Connection Machine employing hypercube topology for its compute nodes.
Kentucky's Linux/Athlon Testbed KLAT2 is an archetypal implementation.
External links
The Aggregate (at the University of Kentucky) defines FNN and includes a bibliography.
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MADT | MADT may refer to:
Micro alloy diffused transistor, in electronics
Multiple APIC Description Table, in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFV | SFV could refer to:
Simple file verification, computer file checksum format
Simian foamy virus
San Fernando Valley
Suitable For Vegans
Screaming for Vengeance, the eighth studio album released by heavy metal band Judas Priest in 1982
Street Fighter V, the fifth installment in the Street Fighter video game series
Swiss Football Association, governing body of football in Switzerland
National Property Board of Sweden, or Statens fastighetsverk, abbreviated SFV
Saybolt FUROL viscosity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive%20hashing | In computer science, locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a fuzzy hashing technique that hashes similar input items into the same "buckets" with high probability. (The number of buckets is much smaller than the universe of possible input items.) Since similar items end up in the same buckets, this technique can be used for data clustering and nearest neighbor search. It differs from conventional hashing techniques in that hash collisions are maximized, not minimized. Alternatively, the technique can be seen as a way to reduce the dimensionality of high-dimensional data; high-dimensional input items can be reduced to low-dimensional versions while preserving relative distances between items.
Hashing-based approximate nearest-neighbor search algorithms generally use one of two main categories of hashing methods: either data-independent methods, such as locality-sensitive hashing (LSH); or data-dependent methods, such as locality-preserving hashing (LPH).
Locality-preserving hashing was initially devised as a way to facilitate data pipelining in implementations of massively parallel algorithms that use randomized routing and universal hashing to reduce memory contention and network congestion.
Definitions
An LSH family
is defined for
a metric space ,
a threshold ,
an approximation factor ,
and probabilities and .
This family is a set of functions that map elements of the metric space to buckets . An LSH family must satisfy the following conditions for any two points and any hash function chosen uniformly at random from :
if , then (i.e., and collide) with probability at least ,
if , then with probability at most .
A family is interesting when . Such a family is called -sensitive.
Alternatively it is defined with respect to a universe of items that have a similarity function . An LSH scheme is a family of hash functions coupled with a probability distribution over the functions such that a function chosen according to satisfies the property that for any .
Locality-preserving hashing
A locality-preserving hash is a hash function that maps points in a metric space to a scalar value such that
for any three points .
In other words, these are hash functions where the relative distance between the input values is preserved in the relative distance between the output hash values; input values that are closer to each other will produce output hash values that are closer to each other.
This is in contrast to cryptographic hash functions and checksums, which are designed to have random output difference between adjacent inputs.
Locality preserving hashes are related to space-filling curves.
Amplification
Given a -sensitive family , we can construct new families by either the AND-construction or OR-construction of .
To create an AND-construction, we define a new family of hash functions , where each function is constructed from random functions from . We then say that for a hash function , if and only if all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates%20Computer%20Science%20Building%2C%20Stanford | __notoc__
The Gates Computer Science Building, or Gates building for short, is an L-shaped building that houses the Computer Science Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory at 353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford University, California. Construction on the building began in 1994 and was completed in 1996 at a cost of $36 million. It was named after Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who donated $6 million for the building's construction.
The building is organized into an A wing (the western ell) and a B wing (the northern ell). It is secured by an Intellikey system. Blueprints of the building are available online. The building was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York City.
See also
Knowledge Systems Laboratory
References
Bibliography
External links
Map:
Buildings and structures completed in 1996
Stanford University buildings and structures
Robert A. M. Stern buildings
Bill Gates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythbuntu | Mythbuntu is a discontinued media center operating system based on Ubuntu, which integrated the MythTV media center software as its main function, and did not install with all of the programs included with Ubuntu.
Following the principles of fellow Linux distributions LinHES and MythDora, Mythbuntu was designed to simplify the installation of MythTV on a home theater PC. After Mythbuntu had been installed the MythTV setup program begins in which it can be configured as a frontend (a media viewer), backend (a media server), or combination of the two.
Mythbuntu aimed to keep close ties with Ubuntu thus allowing changes to be moved upstream for the greater benefit of the Ubuntu Community. Due to the close link with Ubuntu, easy conversions between desktop and standalone Mythbuntu installations are possible. The development cycle of Mythbuntu originally followed that of Ubuntu, with releases occurring every six months. Starting with 12.04, Mythbuntu releases tracked Ubuntu's LTS (long-term support) releases, which release approximately every two years.
On 4 November 2016 the development team announced the end of Mythbuntu as a separate distribution, citing insufficient developers. The team will continue to maintain the Mythbuntu software repository; the announcement advised new users to install another Ubuntu distribution, then install MythTV from the repository.
Desktop
Mythbuntu uses the Xfce desktop interface by default, but users can install ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, or xubuntu-desktop through the Mythbuntu Control Centre, allowing users to get the default interfaces from those flavors of Ubuntu. The only software that is included in this release is media-related software such as VLC, Amunix, and Rhythmbox.
Mythbuntu Control Centre
The Mythbuntu Control Centre provides a GUI which can be used to configure the system. The user can select what kind of system (Backend, Frontend, Both) they wish to have installed. Inside the Control Centre, the user can perform common actions such as installing plugins for MythTV, configuring the MySQL database, setting passwords, and installing drivers and codecs. MythTV updates can be enabled here as well as switching to the latest release version or development branch of MythTV. Configuration of remote controls and a range of other utilities and small programs are performed all from within this program.
Different applications of Mythbuntu
Complete installation (front-end and back-end)
Mythbuntu can be used to install a full MythTV system on a single device (acting as both a client and a server). The front-end is the software required for the visual elements (or the GUI) and is utilised by the common user to find, play, and manipulate media files. The back end is the server where the media files, tuners, and database are actually stored. A combined front-and-back-end system may have an advantage in that it has portability: it is a standalone device that is not dependent on a separate server, such a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giada%20in%20Paradise | Giada in Paradise is a show that debuted on the Food Network on June 16, 2007. The series features host Giada De Laurentiis exploring food and culture at her favorite vacation destinations. In 2012, the series switched to the Cooking Channel, where, as of May 25, 2013, four more episodes have aired. In 2014, the series won a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Directing (Anne Fox), Single Camera Photography, and Single Camera Editing.
Episodes
June 16, 2007: Santorini – Giada explores the food, culture and scenery of the Greek island of Santorini from its idyllic beaches and cliffside villages.
June 23, 2007: Capri – Giada visits Capri, Italy, one of her family's favorite vacation spots, and offers tips for touring the island.
January 15, 2012: Bora Bora – An exploration of the French Polynesian island of Bora Bora in the South Pacific
January 20, 2013: Monaco – Giada takes in the sights and foods of Monte Carlo while traveling through Monaco.
April 21, 2013: Thailand – Giada samples the many foods of Thailand.
May 25, 2013: Monte Carlo – Giada explores the cuisine of Monte Carlo, as well as other attractions.
References
Food Network original programming
Food travelogue television series
Television shows filmed in Greece
Television shows filmed in Italy
Television shows filmed in French Polynesia
Television shows filmed in Monaco
Television shows filmed in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era%20Television | Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996.
Era TV Channels
Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels:
Era News ()
Much TV ()
Azio TV ()
See also
List of Taiwanese television series
External links
Era TV official website
Television stations in Taiwan
Chinese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterVideo%20WinDVR | InterVideo WinDVR is a commercial digital video recorder (DVR) software package for Windows operating systems. It allows PCs to work as a TV set and a DVR at the same time, using a hardware-based TV turner card. It has an integrated electronic program guide (EPG) that is updated via the Internet.
Its direct competition came from CyberLink PowerVCR.
In 2003 InterVideo posted a replacement product named WinDVD Recorder 4.5, offering discounts to the users by upgrading from WinDVR 3 or WinDVD Player 4. However, WinDVD Recorder is not compatible with Windows 98SE or ME (only 2000 and XP are supported). This is the reason WinDVR continued being sold, although without any further updates.
In 2006, InterVideo, the creator of WinDVD Recorder, was acquired by Corel Corporation. WinDVD Recorder has been discontinued, and no direct replacement has been announced. The last WinDVD Recorder version was 5.2.
Features
The application can convert video from VHS tapes to DVD or video CD, and can capture screen shots from a program and save them as a bitmap image to a hard disk or other storage medium.
The EPG works with Decisionmark's TitanTV in the United States, Fast TV in Europe, and Sony IEPG in Japan.
It supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, NTSC and PAL VCD, SVCD, and DVD formats.
The program displays video thumbnails of 16 channels at once so you can scan what's on at a glance.
The time-shifting feature allows pausing of live TV, and creation of instant replay, or fast-forward through commercials with InterVideo Home Theater.
The software also includes support for Teletext, a television information service in Europe.
WinDVD Recorder also includes the same functions of the product WinDVD Player on which it is based: battery life extender, hyper-threading technology, Movie Encyclopedia, aspect ratio correction, time-stretching, DivX support, playlist creation, preset display settings, and PAL TruSpeed.
See also
Microsoft Windows
Windows Media Center
Personal video recorder
Direct to Disk Recording
Comparison of PVR software packages
D-VHS
DVD recorder
Freeview+
Hard disk recorder
Media PC
MythTV
SageTV
TV tuner card
CyberLink PowerVCR
References
External links
How DVR works.
The DV Show - Podcasting the Ins and Outs of Digital Video
DVRplayground - Online community devoted to discussing DVR trends and technology
Video recording software
Corel software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Public%20Health%20Intelligence%20Network | The Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN) is an electronic public health early warning system developed by Canada's Public Health Agency, and is part of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN). This system monitors internet media, such as news wires and websites, in nine languages in order to help detect and report potential disease or other health threats around the world. The system has been credited with detecting early signs of the 2009 swine flu pandemic in Mexico, Zika in West Africa, H5N1 in Iran, MERS and Ebola.
The system came to greater public awareness after it was revealed that Canada's Federal Government effectively shut it down in May 2019, ultimately preventing the system from providing an early warning of COVID-19. In August 2020, the system began issuing alerts again.
History
Ronald St. John, then a government epidemiologist, created GPHIN in 1994 as a way to improve Canada's intelligence surrounding outbreaks. Growing in parallel with ProMED-mail, GPHIN was Canada's major contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO), which at one point credited the system with supplying 20 per cent of its "epidemiological intelligence" and described the system as "the foundation" of a global pandemic early-warning system.
After the 2003 SARS outbreak, the system became central to Canada's pandemic preparedness. The system, which eventually fell under the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response in the PHAC, detected early signs of the 2009 swine flu pandemic in Mexico, Zika in West Africa, H5N1 in Iran, MERS and Ebola.
2019–2020 silence
A July 2020 investigation by The Globe and Mail revealed that Canada's Federal Government effectively shutdown GPHIN in May 2019, ultimately preventing the system from providing an early warning of COVID-19. After the government directed for a more domestic focus, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) assigned employees to different tasks in the department. The shutdown was gradual: in 2009, there were 877 alerts; 198 in 2013; and only 21 in 2018. The final alert came on May 24, 2019. In August 2020, more than 400 days after going silent, the system began issuing alerts again.
In early 2020 before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, scientists at PHAC "were told to focus on official information coming out of China, rather than unofficial intelligence. Some said they struggled to convey urgent information up the chain of command." Internal PHAC emails obtained by The Globe indicate that Sally Thornton, vice-president of the Health Security Infrastructure Branch, and Jim Harris, director-general of the Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, oversaw the decision that curtailed alerts.
Following The Globe and Mail's report, Canada's Auditor-General began an investigation into why the program was curtailed. Released in March 2021, the Auditor-General's report described PHAC as ill-prepared for the pandemic. The report focused pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVM%20%28disambiguation%29 | PVM can refer to:
Parallel Virtual Machine, a software tool for parallel networking of computers
Paged Virtual Memory, a memory addressing scheme that allows non-contiguous memory to be addressed as if it were contiguous
Party of the Vlachs of Macedonia, a political party representing the Aromanians (Vlachs) of North Macedonia
Player versus monsters, also known as player versus environment in computer games
Place Ville Marie, an office complex in Montreal
Projection-valued measure, a type of measure used in functional analysis
Perfetti Van Melle, an Italian-Dutch manufacturer of confectionery and gum
Pro Virtute Medal, a South African military decoration for bravery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Currents | Global Currents is a Canadian news television series, which aired weekly on Global Television Network. Hosted by Kevin Newman, the series airs one documentary film each week.
The series originally launched in 2005, replacing the newsmagazine series Global Sunday. Initially, there was no umbrella title for the series, with each week's documentary promoted under its own individual title. The title Global Currents began to be used in 2007.
The series was shown Saturday evenings at 7 p.m., save for the autumn of 2007 when it was shown at 10 p.m.
Episode list
2006
2007
2008
References
External links
Global Currents
2000s Canadian documentary television series
Global Television Network original programming
2005 Canadian television series debuts
2008 Canadian television series endings
Television series by Corus Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQLT | KQLT is a commercial radio station located in Casper, Wyoming, broadcasting on 103.7 FM. KQLT airs a country music format branded as "Kolt Country". The music programming is syndicated by Dial Global Networks.
The station began with an easy listening format in the 1980s. Later in that decade, the station changed to an oldies music format, and then in the 1990s changed again to its present country music format.
All Mt. Rushmore Casper stations are located at 218 N. Wolcott in downtown Casper. KQLT's sister stations are KMLD, KHOC, KVOC, and KASS.
Fines
KQLT, along with other Casper stations owned by Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting were fined $68,000 for using unlicensed Studio/transmitter links, which the company had been using for 16 years. The FCC fined the company $68,000 for "willfully and repeatedly" violating the law, giving the stations' owner 30 days to get licenses for its STLs for KQLT, and sister stations KMLD, KASS, and KHOC.
In 2012, station owner Jan Charles Gray was named in a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Labor for improperly paying employees. Gray called the claims in the lawsuit "bogus".
In 2013, Gray informed the Casper Star Tribune that the lawsuit and a $68,000 fine for unlicensed STLs were "a lot of baloney." Gray said if the FCC doesn't back down, he plans to "sue them on behalf of every radio owner in America that has been wronged by them".
References
External links
QLT
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20Cleanup | Disk Clean-up (cleanmgr.exe) is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space on a computer's hard drive. It was introduced in Windows 98, but has now been deprecated and replaced with a modern version in the Settings app, although it still exists as a legacy tool in Windows.
About
The utility searches files that are no longer of any use, and then removes the selected unnecessary files. There are a number of different file categories that Disk Clean-up targets when performing the initial disk analysis:
Compression of old files
Temporary Internet files
Temporary Windows files
Downloaded program files
Recycle Bin
Removal of unused applications or optional Windows components
Setup log files
Offline web pages (cached)
WinSxS (Windows component store)
The above list, however, is not exhaustive. For instance, 'Temporary Remote Desktop files' and 'Temporary Sync Files' may appear only under certain computer configurations, differences such as Windows Operating System and use of additional programs such as Remote Desktop. The option of removing hibernation data may not be ideal for some users as this may remove the hibernate option.
In Windows 10 and 11 you can also choose an option “Clean up system files”. You will have more files to delete. One of new categories is “Windows Update Cleanup”. It allows to free up a few gigabytes of space. But notice, that if you clean this category it would be impossible to uninstall current Windows update version.
Aside from removing unnecessary files, users also have the option of compressing files that have not been accessed over a set period of time. This option provides a systematic compression scheme. Infrequently accessed files are compressed to free up disk space while leaving the frequently used files uncompressed for faster read/write access times. If after file compression, a user wishes to access a compressed file, the access times may be increased and vary from system to system.
In addition to the categories that appear on the Disk Clean-up tab, the More Options tab offers additional options for freeing up hard drive space through removal of optional Windows components, installed programs, and all but the most recent System Restore point or Shadow Copy data in some versions of Microsoft Windows.
Deprecation
Starting with Windows 10 version 1803 (RS4), the capabilities of Disk Clean-up are incorporated into Windows 10's Settings app. The standalone Disk Cleanup tool is still included, but deprecated in favor of the new interface.
See also
Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Disk Space Analyzers
References
External links
Microsoft Help and Support - Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP
Creating a Disk Cleanup Handler
Windows components
Windows-only proprietary software
Utilities for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMLD | KMLD is a commercial radio station located in Casper, Wyoming, broadcasting on 94.5 FM. KMLD airs an oldies music format branded as "Melody 94.5". The music programming is syndicated by Cumulus Media and is the True Oldies Channel.
All Mt. Rushmore Casper stations are located at 218 N. Wolcott in downtown Casper.
History
This station started at 97.3 FM in 1997, and was owned by Hart Media. The station was later sold along with the other Hart Media Stations to Mountain States Broadcasting. The station was sold once again when Clear Channel Communications bought Mountain States Broadcasting. The present owner is Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting. A short while after being bought by Mt. Rushmore, the station moved down to 94.5 FM.
Citing technical difficulties, the station, along with its five other sister stations went dark for a period of time in August 2011. KVOC, KMLD, and KHOC remained silent as of December 17, 2011. Other than equipment reasons, no further information as to why the three stations were off the air had been provided.
Fines
KMLD, along with other Casper stations owned by Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting were fined $68,000 for using unlicensed Studio/transmitter links, which the company had been using for 16 years. The FCC fined the company $68,000 for "willfully and repeatedly" violating the law, giving the stations' owner 30 days to get licenses for its STLs for KHOC, and sister stations KHOC, KASS, and KQLT.
In 2012, station owner Jan Charles Gray was named in a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Labor for improperly paying employees. Gray called the claims in the lawsuit "bogus".
In 2013, Gray informed the Casper Star Tribune that the lawsuit and a $68,000 fine for unlicensed STLs were "a lot of baloney." Gray said if the FCC doesn't back down, he plans to "sue them on behalf of every radio owner in America that has been wronged by them".
Previous logo
References
External links
Melody 94.5 Facebook
MLD
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1997
Natrona County, Wyoming
1997 establishments in Wyoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20English | Structured English is the use of the English language with the syntax of structured programming to communicate the design of a computer program to non-technical users by breaking it down into logical steps using straightforward English words. Structured English gives aims to get the benefits of both the programming logic and natural language: program logic helps to attain precision, whilst natural language helps with the familiarity of the spoken word.
It is the basis of some programming languages such as SQL (Structured Query Language) "for use by people who have need for interaction with a large database but who are not trained programmers".
Elements
Advanced English Structure is a limited-form "pseudocode" and consists of the following elements:
Operation statements written as English phrases executed from the top down
Conditional blocks indicated by keywords such as IF, THEN, and ELSE
Repetition blocks indicated by keywords such as DO, WHILE, and UNTIL
The following guidelines are used when writing Structured English:
All logic should be expressed in operational, conditional, and repetition blocks
Statements should be clear and unambiguous
Logical blocks should be indented to show relationship and hierarchy
Use one line per logical element, or indent the continuation line
Keywords should be capitalized
Group blocks of statements together, with a capitalized name that describes their function and end with an EXIT.
Underline words or phrases defined in a data dictionary pronunciation definition and meaning.
Mark comment lines with an asterisk
Example of Structured English
APPROVE LOAN
IF customer has a Bank Account THEN
IF Customer has no dues from previous account THEN
Allow loan facility
ELSE
IF Management Approval is obtained THEN
Allow loan facility
ELSE
Reject
ENDIF
ENDIF
ELSE
Reject
ENDIF
EXIT
Criticism
Though useful for planning programs, modules and routines, or describing algorithms it is less useful when numerous decisions need to be made.
Other specification tools
System processes at a lower level involve lot of computations and require more precision and clarity. This can be achieved with tools such as decision trees or decision tables.
See also
Natural language programming
Self-documenting code
Structured programming
Pseudocode
Decision tree
Decision table
Attempto Controlled English
References
Algorithm description languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Exosquad%20episodes | Exosquad is an American animated television series created by Universal Cartoon Studios for MCA TV's Universal Family Network syndicated programming block as a response to Japanese anime. The show is set in the beginning of the 22nd century and covers the interplanetary war between humanity and Neosapiens, a fictional race artificially created as workers/slaves for the Terrans. The narrative generally follows Able Squad, an elite Terran unit of mecha pilots, on their missions all over the Solar System, although other storylines are also abundant. The series ran for two complete seasons in syndication from 1993 to 1994, and was cancelled after one third-season episode had been produced. Reruns later aired on USA Network.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1993)
Season 2 (1994)
References
External links
Exosquad
Exosquad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Cressey | Roger W. Cressey (born August 9, 1965) is a cyber security and counter-terrorism expert and served in senior positions under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He is a former member of the United States National Security Council staff and the Founder and former President of the Good Harbor consulting group.
Cressey served as an adjunct professor of counter-terrorism policy at Georgetown University and is currently a Partner with Liberty Group Ventures, LLC.
Education and early life
Cressey received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 1987 and a Master of Arts in Security Policy Studies from George Washington University in 1991.
He has taught a graduate course on U.S. counter-terrorism policy at Georgetown University, where he served as an adjunct professor from 2000-2006.
Career
Cressey worked at the Department of Defense, including as Deputy Director for War Plans. From 1991 to 1995, he served in the Department of State, working on Middle East Security issues. He has also served overseas with the U.S. Embassy in Israel and with United Nations peacekeeping missions in Somalia and former Yugoslavia.
He was Chief of Staff to the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board at the White House from November 2001 to September 2002.
From November 1999 to November 2001, he was Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council (NSC) staff, where he was responsible for the coordination and implementation of US counter-terrorism policy. During this period, he managed the U.S. Government's response to the Millennium terror alert, the USS Cole attack, and the September 11 attacks. During his time at the NSC, Cressey called for steps to be taken against al-Qaeda and Bin Laden, which were largely ignored until 9/11.
In 2002, Cressey founded the corporate security and risk management company Good Harbor Consulting.
He has also served as a foreign policy advisor to President Barack Obama.
For more than ten years Cressey was an on-air counter-terrorism analyst for NBC News, regularly appearing on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC and CNBC and other national and international print and non-print media outlets. He has also been speaking on his topics of expertise at different forums, conferences and panels.
Cressey served as Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, a technology consulting firm, where he worked on cybersecurity projects in the Middle East.
He is currently a Partner with Mountain Wave Ventures.
Awards
Cressey has been awarded the State Department's Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards, and the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Award.
Notes
External links
Living people
George Washington University alumni
University of Massachusetts Lowell alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Georgetown University faculty
1965 births
United States National Security Council staffers
United States presidential advisors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOST%2010859 | GOST 10859 (1964) is a standard of the Soviet Union which defined how to encode data on punched cards. This standard allowed a variable word size, depending on the type of data being encoded, but only uppercase characters.
These include the non-ASCII “decimal exponent symbol” . It was used to express real numbers in scientific notation. For example: 6.0221415⏨23.
The character was also part of the ALGOL programming language specifications and was incorporated into the then German character encoding standard ALCOR. GOST 10859 also included numerous other non-ASCII characters/symbols useful to ALGOL programmers, e.g.: ∨, ∧, ⊃, ≡, ¬, ≠, ↑, ↓, ×, ÷, ≤, ≥, °, &, ∅, compare with ALGOL operators.
Character sets
See also
KOI-7 (GOST 13052-67)
KOI-8 (GOST 19768-74)
References
ГОСТ 10859-64. Машины вычислительные. Коды алфавитно-цифровые для перфокарт и перфолент.
GOST 10859 (from the Computer Museum of University of Amsterdam)
GOST 10859
Further reading
Cyrillic alphabet representations
Character sets
GOST standards
Russian-language computing
Computing in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20Radio%20Network | Q Radio is a network of radio stations in Northern Ireland airing an adult contemporary format. The network is the fifth most listened to radio station in Northern Ireland, with a combined figure of 362,000 listeners as of September 2023, according to RAJAR.
Network
Q Radio covers seven licence areas:
Belfast - 96.7 & 102.5 FM and DAB
North West - 102.9 FM
North Coast - 97.2 & 97.6 FM
Mid Antrim - 107.0 & 107.6 FM
Mid Ulster - 106.0, 106.3 & 107.2 FM
Newry & Mourne - 100.5 FM & 101.1 FM
Tyrone & Fermanagh - 101.2 & 102.1 FM
The various stations in the network previously had local opt-outs from the network schedule, including the Q Cafe on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. There are currently no opt-outs on the schedule with all stations taking the network at all times, except for local news, traffic and advertising.
History
The first use of the Q brand in Northern Ireland came with the launch of Q97.2 from Coleraine, County Londonderry, on 26 January 2000. Additional stations were opened in Derry (Q102.9) and Omagh, County Tyrone (Q101.2).
Further stations that would later become part of Q Radio launched in the mid-2000s. Seven FM launched on 1 November 2005 from its base in Ballymena., while Five FM won a licence to broadcast to Newry and Mourne on 100.5 MHz in 2006, signing on 12 December. That same year, River Media bought Mid 106 FM in Cookstown from CN Group and rebranded it as Six FM. In 2011, Five FM, Six FM and Seven FM were rebranded as Q Radio stations.
In 2015, Q Radio acquired CityBeat in Belfast from CN Group, marking its entry into that market. The station was then rebranded as Q Radio Belfast.
In 2017, "QHQ", the network's main studios, were opened in Belfast's Fountain Centre. A series of licence extensions in 2018 brought Q Radio additional coverage in Northern Ireland, including transmitters covering Larne, Newcastle, Draperstown, Enniskillen and Ballycastle.
Presenters/former presenters
Stephen Clements
Gareth Stewart
Gareth Woods
Ryan A
Steve Turnbull
Jordan Humphries
Yazz
Cate Conway
Owen Larkin
Mark Lima
Carl Kinsman
Eoghan Quigg
Sean Hegarty
Declan Wilson
Ibe Sesay
Connor Brennan
Victoria Quinn
Sean Mckeown
Errol Doherty
Olga Kaye
Cushla
Q Radio Schedule as of June 2023
Monday to Thursday
12am-6am Q Thru The Night
6-10am Q Radio Breakfast with Declan, Andrew & Amy
10am-1pm Q Radio Mid-Morning with Yazz
1pm-4pm Q Radio Afternoon with Jordan Arnold
4pm-7pm Q Radio Drive with Ibe Sesay
7pm-10pm Q Radio Evening with Connor Brennan
10pm-12am Q's Keeping It Quiet with Cushla Rice
Friday
12am-6am Q Thru The Night
6am-10am Q Radio Breakfast with Declan & Amy
10am-1pm Q Radio Mid-Morning with Yazz
1pm-4pm Jordan & Gerry's Jukebox
4pm-7pm Q Radio Drive with Ibe Sesay
7pm-10pm Q Radio Weekend Party with Gareth Woods
10pm-12am Q Radio Weekend Party with Ryan Hand
Saturday
12am-6am Q Thru The Night
6am-10am Q Radio Weekend Breakfast with Connor Brennan
10am-2pm Q Radio Weekend Mid-Morning with Ryan Hand
2pm-6pm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s | Duff's may refer to:
Duff's Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Duff's device, computer science implementation by Tom Duff
Duff's Famous Wings, restaurant in Buffalo, New York
See also
Duff (disambiguation)
Duffs, golf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permitted%20attached%20private%20lines | Permitted attached private lines, abbreviated PAPL, are voice-grade telephone wires that run point-to-point (rather than point-to-exchange) between locations in the telephone company's copper network. Data can travel across the PAPL link (at a distance of up to 3.5 km) at speeds of around 2Mb per second. Originally, PAPLs were intended to act as basic alarm circuits for fire or security systems, though in recent years have been utilised to carry DSL data signals.
References
Telstra Holds Off on Scrapping Copper
Information Access (Electronic Frontiers Australia)
Telstra Impose their own Internet GST
Local loop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadabra | Cadabra might refer to:
Cadabra (computer program), a computer algebra system for field theory problems
Cadabra Design Automation, a former EDA company purchased by Numerical Technologies
Cadabra, Inc., now Amazon.com, Inc.
See also
Abracadabra (disambiguation)
Kadabra (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseboard%20%28disambiguation%29 | Baseboard can refer to:
Baseboard - a type of wooden, plastic, MDF or Styrofoam trim installed along the bottom of a wall
Motherboard - a computer component
Base board - a type of heater, see Hydronics
Base board - the wooden board that scenery and track is attached to in Rail transport modelling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASS | KASS is a commercial radio station located in Casper, Wyoming, broadcasting on 106.9 FM. KASS airs a classic rock music format, branded as "Kick 107". The music programming is syndicated by Westwood One. All Mt. Rushmore Casper stations are located at 218 N. Wolcott in downtown Casper.
History
The station signed on October 15, 1990 as KCSP, a contemporary Christian music radio station. On September 22, 1993, the station changed its call letters to KPGM; the KCSP call letters and the contemporary Christian format moved to 90.3 FM, with KPGM airing religious education programming. In November 1993, the station became "Jukebox 107", an oldies station. The station transitioned into the classic rock format in the fall of 1994. By the beginning of 1995 the station would add hard rock and heavy metal to its playlist. In May 1995, the station changed its name to Kick 107; on May 11, 1995, the station took the KASS call sign.
KASS, along with other Casper stations owned by Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting were fined $68,000 for using unlicensed Studio/transmitter links, which the company had been using for 16 years. The FCC fined the company $68,000 for "willfully and repeatedly" violating the law, giving the stations' owner 30 days to get licenses for its STLs for KASS, and sister stations KMLD, KHOC, and KQLT.
In 2012, station owner Jan Charles Gray was named in a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Labor for improperly paying employees. Gray called the claims in the lawsuit "bogus".
In 2013, Gray informed the Casper Star Tribune that the lawsuit and a $68,000 fine for unlicensed STLs were "a lot of baloney." Gray said if the FCC doesn't back down, he plans to "sue them on behalf of every radio owner in America that has been wronged by them".
References
External links
ASS
Radio stations established in 1990
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
1990 establishments in Wyoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRef |
The GeoRef database is a bibliographic database that indexes scientific literature in the geosciences, including geology. Coverage ranges from 1666 to the present for North American literature, and 1933 to the present for the rest of the world. It currently contains more than 4.3 million references. It is widely considered one of the preeminent literature databases for those studying the earth sciences.
It is produced by the American Geosciences Institute, which was known as the American Geological Institute until October 2011.
"To maintain the database, GeoRef editor/indexers regularly scan more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports. They record the bibliographic data for each document and assign index terms to describe it. Each month between 6,000 and 9,000 new references are added to the database."
Major areas of coverage by GeoRef include:
Areal geology
Economic geology
Engineering geology
Environmental geology
Extraterrestrial geology
Geochemistry
Geochronology
Geophysics
Hydrogeology and hydrology
Marine geology and oceanography
Mathematical geology
Mineralogy and Crystallography
Paleontology
Petrology
Seismology
Stratigraphy
Structural geology
Surficial geology
Print publications that correspond to GeoRef are Bibliography and Index of North American Geology; Bibliography of Theses in Geology; and the Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
References
Bibliography
External links
of the GeoRef database
of the American Geosciences Institute
Earth sciences
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Scientific databases
Geographical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20Korean%20FA%20Cup | 1999 Korean FA Cup, known as the 1999 Sambo Computer FA Cup, was the fourth edition of the Korean FA Cup.
Bracket
First round
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Awards
See also
1999 in South Korean football
1999 K League
1999 Korean Semi-professional Football League
1999 Korean League Cup
1999 Korean League Cup (Supplementary Cup)
References
External links
Official website
Fixtures & Results at JoinKFA
1999
1999 in South Korean football
1999 domestic association football cups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20programming | The terms local programme, local programming, local content or local television refers to a television program made by a television station or independent television producer for broadcast only within the station's transmission area or television market. Local programmes can encompass the whole range of programme genres but will usually only cover subjects or people of particular interest to an audience within the station's coverage area.
For example, a local sports programme will present results, interviews and coverage of games or matches, just like a network sports programme, but it would only feature teams and players from within the broadcaster's transmission area.
In some cases a television network programme may include a local element as well. This is particularly the case in the United Kingdom and still happens today with The Politics Show. The BBC regions will all opt-out at the same time from the main programme to present a locally produced segment.
Sometimes locally made programmes that are not too specific to the transmission area, will be sold to other local stations for broadcast in their region.
Historically there was a large percentage of local programming on television. Late in the 20th century this has significantly fallen. In many cases the only local programmes on a television station today will be the local newscast.
The above can also apply to radio. A national radio network may have local studios or affiliates who opt-out at various times to present local programs and content.
In the late-1950s, many of the early Australian television series such as Melbourne Magazine (1957), Sydney Tonight (1956-1959), and TV Talent Scout (1957-1958) were broadcast in only a single city.
Canada
In Canada, historically local television stations produced a significant volume of local programming, including newscasts, locally or regionally oriented talk shows, and variety entertainment programs such as Tiny Talent Time or Homegrown Cafe; a few stations, such as CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario and CJOH in Ottawa, also distributed some of their local programming more widely through television syndication, most notably CHCH's Hilarious House of Frightenstein and CJOH's You Can't Do That On Television, both of which were broadcast across both Canada and the United States.
With the cross-national consolidation of Canadian media ownership in the 1990s and 2000s, network-affiliated stations now rarely produce much more than their own local or regional newscasts, although some stations may continue to produce a small amount of additional local programming. Independent stations may produce more local programming, although such stations are now rare in the Canadian media landscape.
In radio, virtually all Canadian commercial radio stations are officially programmed locally, although many stations cut costs by contracting some dayparts out to voice-tracked hosts who are not actually located in the station's physical studio or even necessarily |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Nordin | Peter Nordin (August 9, 1965 – October 12, 2020) was a Swedish computer scientist, entrepreneur and author who has contributed to artificial intelligence, automatic programming, machine learning, and evolutionary robotics.
Studies and early career
Peter Nordin was born in 1965 in Helsingborg but moved to Gothenburg in 1967, where he was raised. He began studies at Chalmers University of Technology in 1984 and completed the M.S. in computer science and engineering in 1988 and studied economics. He then worked as a knowledge engineer for artificial intelligence (AI) company, Infologics AB, focusing on research and development of knowledge-based systems and complex system configuration.
Nordin began his research while at Infologics AB, Sweden. His work led to several European research projects (ESPRIT) including projects in machine learning (autonomous vehicles) and methodologies for AI system development. He began his research in Genetic Programming (GP) in 1992. In 1993, he started Dacapo AB, a research and development company. He invented a method for automatic induction of binary machine code using genetic programming and researched how to produce machine code with genetic programming. In 1997 he co-founded the American company RML Technologies, Inc. with commercial GP software. Nordin spent a large portion of 1995 and 1996 at the University of Dortmund, where he completed his doctoral studies. At Dortmund University he initiated research in evolutionary robotics. and demonstrated that GP can be used for real-time, on-line training and control of robotic systems.
In 1998, he co-authored a textbook on genetic programming.<ref>Genetic Programming: An Introduction, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Peter Nordin, Robert E. Keller, and Frank D. Frandone, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. (1998). Bokrecension.se </ref>
Peter Nordin created a search engine company in 1999, VILL AB (with global search engine wannasee.com) as well as another AI-company, Tific ABhttp://8SAIS/www.tific.com for automated support, and received the year’s Sten Gustafsson prize for entrepreneuring, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. At the time, he was also the co-founder of Chalmer's Medialab and was on the board of the Swedish AI Society. He was Chair of the second European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 1999, now part of EvoStar.
Robots and commercialization of AI
During 1998–2003, he was an associate professor at Chalmers’ Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). For a short period he led an international master's degree program in CAS, which he co-founded. He led the master’s program and supervised construction of GP-based adaptive physical robots. During this time, he also started Chalmers’ Humanoid Project resulted in Sweden’s first full-scale humanoid robots; Elvis, Elvina, and Priscilla, which currently reside in Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology. Robots from the Humanoid Project participated in “RoboCup” soccer matches for humanoi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytron%20Masters | Cytron Masters is a computer game by Danielle Bunten released for the Apple II and Atari 8-bit family in July or August 1982. Developed by Ozark Softscape and released by Strategic Simulations, Cytron Masters is one of the earliest computer games that can be considered a real-time strategy game, or a real-time tactics predecessor to the genre, requiring the players to build up their forces in order to win.
Gameplay
In the game each player takes the role of the commander, represented on-screen in Command Centers located on opposite sides of the screen. Scattered around the screen are eight "generators" that produce energy. The energy produced by these generators is the resource in the game, similar in function to the more tangible resources gathered in modern RTS games. Energy can then be "spent" to produce the Cytrons, robot warriors, as well as using it to move them about, fire, and other duties.
The playfield consists of a twelve by six grid of possible locations, with the command centers at the (1,3) and (12,3) locations. Five different types of Cytrons can be built and moved about the grid. Shooters fire at the closest of any enemy units with a three-space range, mines detonate when an enemy approaches, bunkers absorb damage, and missiles fly up and over the battlefield to detonate at a selected location. The fifth unit, the Commander, relays commands from the Command Centers out to the units in the field.
Gameplay is somewhat chess-like, a battle for position. Bunkers and mines become important along the front lines, protecting friendly units from attack while they are developed forward.
Reception
Mark Botner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Cytron Masters is an exciting game offering multiple levels of play with variations to suit the individual: Play on all levels guarantees an action-packed episode of futuristic combat."
Chris Smith reviewed SSI's RapidFire Line in The Space Gamer No. 59, and commented that "Cytron Masters requires a bit of tactical know-how, and its real-time command system gives it a slight arcade feel. I think this is the perfect combination of arcade and board game."
In a 1992 survey of science fiction games, Computer Gaming World gave the title two of five stars.
References
1982 video games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Danielle Bunten Berry games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
North America-exclusive video games
Real-time strategy video games
Strategic Simulations games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene%20generator | A scene generator is a computer model that creates a world representation using phenomenology, physics, and behavioral models, to achieve a useful rendition of the domain of interest. Usually found associated with the synthetic modeling of electro-magnetic spectral domains like Optical (Visible, IR, UV) or Radio Frequency. A hyperspectral scene generator is when multiple electro-magnetic spectra can be handled simultaneously.
References
Simulation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20XP%2064-bit | Windows XP 64-bit can refer to:
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, an operating system for x86-64 processors
Windows XP 64-bit Edition, an operating system for IA-64 processors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFGROW | AFGROW (Air Force Grow) is a Damage Tolerance Analysis (DTA) computer program that calculates crack initiation, fatigue crack growth, and fracture to predict the life of metallic structures. Originally developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, AFGROW is mainly used for aerospace applications, but can be applied to any type of metallic structure that experiences fatigue cracking.
History
AFGROW's history traces back to a crack growth life prediction program (ASDGRO) which was written in BASIC for IBM-PCs by E. Davidson at ASD/ENSF in the early-mid-1980s. In 1985, ASDGRO was used as the basis for crack growth analysis for the Sikorsky H-53 helicopter under contract to Warner-Robins ALC. The program was modified to utilize very large load spectra, approximate stress intensity solutions for cracks in arbitrary stress fields, and use a tabular crack growth rate relationship based on the Walker equation on a point-by-point basis (Harter T-Method). The point loaded crack solution from the Tada, Paris, and Irwin Stress Intensity Factor Handbook
was originally used to determine K (for arbitrary stress fields) by integration over the crack length using the unflawed stress distribution independently for each crack dimension. A new method was developed by F. Grimsley (AFWAL/FIBEC) to determine stress intensity, which used a 2-D Gaussian integration scheme with Richardson Extrapolation which was optimized by G. Sendeckyj (AFWAL/FIBEC). The resulting program was named MODGRO since it was a modified version of ASDGRO.
Many modifications were made during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The primary modification was changing the coding language from BASIC to Turbo Pascal and C. Numerous small changes/repairs were made based on errors that were discovered. During this time period, NASA/Dryden implemented MODGRO in the analysis for the flight test program for the X-29.
In 1993, the Navy was interested in using MODGRO to assist in a program to assess the effect of certain (classified) environments on the damage tolerance of aircraft. Work began at that time to convert the MODGRO, Version 3.X to the C language for UNIX to provide performance and portability to several UNIX Workstations. In 1994, MODGRO was renamed AFGROW, Version 3.X.
Since 1996, the Windows-based version of AFGROW has replaced the UNIX version since the demand for the UNIX version did not justify the cost to maintain it. There was also an experiment to port AFGROW to the Mac OS but there was a lack of demand. An automated capability was added in the form of a Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) interface.
The program is now developed and maintained by LexTech, Inc.
Software architecture
The stress intensity factor library provides models for over 30 different crack geometries (including tension, bending and bearing loading for many cases). In addition, a multiple crack capability allows the analysis of two independent cracks in a plate (including hole effects) and a non-symmetr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus%20Eee | Asus Eee is a family of products by AsusTek Computer Inc. The product family began with the release of the Eee PC subnotebook in 2007; since then, the product family has diversified into a number of PC form factors. According to the company, the name Eee derives from "the three Es," an abbreviation of its advertising slogan for the device: "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play".
Eee PC
The Asus Eee PC is a subnotebook/netbook computer. At the time of its introduction in fall 2007, it was noted for its combination of a light weight, Linux-based operating system, solid-state drive and relatively low cost. Newer models have added the option of the Windows 7 operating system, dual-core Intel Atom CPUs, and traditional hard disk drives, and have also increased in price, though they remain relatively inexpensive as laptops, and notably inexpensive for ultra-small laptops.
EeeBox PC
Asus EeeBox PC is a nettop (desktop for the internet) counterpart to the Asus Eee PC netbook (notebook for the internet). Its motherboard employs Splashtop technology called "ExpressGate" by Asus.
Eee Top
The Asus Eee Top is a touch screen computer designed by Asus and released in November 2008. Its motherboard employs Splashtop technology (an embedded Linux distribution) called "ExpressGate" by Asus. Both models feature a 1.6 GHz Atom processor, widescreen (16:9) 15.6" display, 1 GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 802.11n Wi-Fi, speakers, SD card reader and a 1.3 MP webcam with Windows XP Home modified with Asus' big-icon Easy Mode.
Eee Keyboard
ASUS Eee Keyboard contained a built-in PC motherboard within a full-size keyboard, similar to Cybernet's keyboard computer models and reminiscent of such 1980s PCs as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Atari ST. It substituted a touchscreen in place of the conventional numeric keypad. ASUS had planned to ship the device in September 2009, but it actually debuted at CeBIT 2010 and launched in March 2010.
The ASUS Eee Keyboard EK1542 contained a standard set of features typical for 2008 netbooks: an Intel Atom N270 processor (2.5W TDP), built around the Intel 945GSE chipset (6W TDP) and a ICH7-M South bridge (3.3W TDP). A Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset integrated into the Intel GMA 950 video subsystem resulted in performance similar to the Asus EEE PCs 901/1000.
The computer came with Windows XP Home Edition; an additional 1 GB RAM, as well as a 16 or 32GB Solid State Drive, was soldered directly to the motherboard (preventing any memory upgrade). Network interfaces consisted of a standard gigabit LAN adapter, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n @2.4GHz, and Bluetooth. A Realtek sound system drove 2 small built-in speakers, and a Li-Po accumulator provided a power capacity of 49 W*h.
It boasted some unique features: a 5-inch, 800x480 screen with a multi-touch panel, a Broadcom video decoder for accelerating H.264 and VC-1 high-definition compression algorithms, and a Wireless 720p Video Transmitting function utilizing Ultra-wideband Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20administration | Data administration or data resource management is an organizational function working in the areas of information systems and computer science that plans, organizes, describes and controls data resources. Data resources are usually stored in databases under a database management system or other software such as electronic spreadsheets. In many smaller organizations, data administration is performed occasionally, or is a small component of the database administrator’s work.
In the context of information systems development, data administration ideally begins at system conception, ensuring there is a data dictionary to help maintain consistency, avoid redundancy, and model the database so as to make it logical and usable, by means of data modeling, including database normalization techniques.
Data resource management
According to the Data Management Association (DAMA), data resource management is "the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an enterprise".
Data Resource management may be thought of as a managerial activity that applies information system and other data management tools to the task of managing an organization’s data resource to meet a company’s business needs, and the information they provide to their shareholders.
From the perspective of database design, it refers to the development and maintenance of data models to facilitate data sharing between different systems, particularly in a corporate context. Data Resource Management is also concerned with both data quality and compatibility between data models.
Since the beginning of the information age, businesses need all types of data on their business activity. With each data created, when a business transaction is made, need data is created. With these data, new direction is needed that focuses on managing data as a critical resource of the organization to directly support its business activities. The data resource must be managed with the same intensity and formality that other critical resources are managed. Organizations must emphasize the information aspect of information technology, determine the data needed to support the business, and then use appropriate technology to build and maintain a high-quality data resource that provides that support.
Data resource quality is a measure of how well the organization's data resource supports the current and the future business information demand of the organization. The data resource cannot support just the current business information demand while sacrificing the future business information demand. It must support both the current and the future business information demand. The ultimate data resource quality is stability across changing business needs and changing technology.
A corporate data resource must be developed within single, organization-wide common data architecture. A data architecture is the science and method of designing an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Pool | Virtual Pool is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game series with computer simulations of cue sports which was developed by Celeris. The games in the series simulate pool, snooker and carom billiards. The Virtual Pool series focuses on accurate simulation and improving the player's ability to play the sport in real life. Virtual Pool releases are sold with a money back guarantee to improve a player's external game.
Overview
The main selling point of the Virtual Pool-series games is that they were designed and tested by programmers, physicists and professional players. According to the game box, its simulation was "guaranteed to improve your actual pool play or your money back". The series was endorsed by professional players Mike Sigel and Jeanette Lee and equipment manufacturers Viking Cues, Imperial International, Schön Custom Cues, Creative Innovations and Joss Cues.
The games' graphics capabilities vary by platform to platform, but their environmental realism (such as a pool hall) is on par with the graphics in other contemporary rendered games (like first-person shooters). The games' use of first-person perspective, rather than using an overhead view, contributed to the series' success.
The complexity of the games increased over time, from Virtual Pool four game types to Virtual Pool 4 18 pool games on championship and bar tables, snooker, English billiards, four carom games and four pub pool eight-ball games. Other improvements included more venues and computerized opponents, equipment-upgrade purchases, customizable tables, video tutorials, two career-play modes and a trick-shot library. Online capability includes pool rooms with multiple players and spectators, tournaments, ladders, a social network with player profiles, friends, statistics and shot uploads.
Series
{{Video game timeline
| 1995 = Virtual Pool
| 1996 = Virtual Snooker
| 1997 = Virtual Pool 2
| 1998 = Virtual Pool 64
| 1999 = Virtual Pool Hall
| 2000 = Virtual Pool 3
| 2005 = Virtual Pool: Tournament Edition
| 2010 = Virtual Pool Online HD
| 2012a = Virtual Pool Mobile
| 2012b = Virtual Pool 4
| 2014 = Virtual Pool 4: Multiplayer
}}
Celeris, creators of the Virtual Pool franchise, created their first title (FlixMix, a DOS jigsaw puzzle game) in 1993. After this release, Celeris published their first 3D game (Virtual Pool) in 1995. The game had four pool modes: straight pool, eight-ball, nine-ball and rotation pool. With pool world champion Lou Butera, it guaranteed to improve the player's pool game (a guarantee which continued through the main-series Virtual Pool titles).
The game was successful, and Virtual Pool 2 (with a wider range of pool games, including three-ball and bank pool) was produced in 1997. Virtual Pool 2, with improved graphics, was released exclusively for PC. Over 120 AI opponents and online multiplayer capability were introduced, with Mike Sigil joining Butera for this game.
The following year's Virtual Pool Hall for Windows contained gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGED%20Society | The Functional GEnomics Data Society (FGED) (formerly known as the MGED Society)
was a non-profit, volunteer-run international organization
of biologists, computer scientists, and data analysts that aims to
facilitate biological and biomedical discovery through data
integration. The approach of FGED was to promote the sharing of basic research
data generated primarily via high-throughput technologies
that generate large data sets within the domain of functional genomics.
Members of the FGED Society worked with other organizations to support the effective sharing and reproducibility
of functional genomics data; facilitate the creation of
standards and software tools that leverage the standards; and promote the sharing of high quality, well
annotated data within the life sciences and biomedical communities.
Founded in 1999 as the "Microarray Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society", this organization changed its name to the "Functional Genomics Data Society" in 2010 to reflect the fact that it has broadened its focus beyond the application of DNA microarrays for gene expression analysis to include technologies such as high-throughput sequencing. The scope of the FGED Society includes data generated using any functional genomics technology when applied to genome-scale studies of gene expression, binding, modification and other related applications.
In September 2021, the FGED Society ceased operations.
History
The FGED Society was formed in 1999 at a meeting on Microarray Gene
Expression Databases in recognition of the need to establish standards
for sharing and storing data from DNA microarray experiments. Originally named the "MGED Society," the society began with
a focus on DNA microarrays and gene expression data.
The original MGED Society was incorporated in 2002 as a non-profit
public benefit organization with the title
Microarray Gene Expression Data Society and obtained permanent
charity status in 2007. The MGED name was legally changed in 2007 to
Microarray and Gene Expression Data Society to emphasize a broader
scope.
In September 2008, the Society decided to promote itself simply as the
MGED Society to broaden the Society's scope beyond microarray technology
and gene expression applications, yet still
retain the recognized value of the MGED name within the community.
In July 2010, the society voted to change its name to the "Functional Genomics Data (FGED) Society"
to reflect its current mission which goes beyond microarrays and gene expression to encompass data
generated using any functional genomics technology applied to
genomic-scale studies of gene
expression, binding, modification (such as DNA methylation),
and other related applications. This was formally announced on 14 July 2010 at the society's "MGED13" annual meeting.
Presidents of the FGED Society
Board members and officers of the FGED Society are elected annually each May and start serving in June. Presidents of the FGED Society along with their terms in office are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHKG-FM | CHKG-FM is a radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It broadcasts on the frequency 96.1 FM. It airs mostly Mandarin programming and is owned by the Fairchild Group. CHKG's studios are located inside Aberdeen Centre in Richmond, while its transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
History
In 1995, the Fairchild Group, which already owned Vancouver multicultural station CJVB (1470 AM), and Roger Charest, owner of CKER in Edmonton, made a joint bid to the CRTC to establish FM world music stations in Vancouver and Calgary. The application was approved in 1996, with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) selecting it over bids from Telemedia for an alternative rock station and Radio One Vancouver Corporation for an "adult/pop talk" station because it found that the Vancouver radio market could not support another general-market station; CHMB (1320 AM) also proposed an ethnic station but withdrew its proposal.
CHKG-FM began broadcasting on September 6, 1997. It was the fifth Fairchild ethnic media service to open, and the first multilingual FM station in Western Canada. Programming was split between world music from 06:00 to 15:00 & Chinese hit radio the rest of the day, which together with CJVB's daytime Chinese programming provided a 24-hour Chinese service while also catering to other communities.
CHKG has held subsidiary communications multiplex operation authority from the CRTC over most of its history to broadcast a subcarrier-only service, originally in Korean and later in Punjabi. By the 2015 renewal, the SCMO service had returned to Korean.
Programming
CHKG operates with a program schedule that generally is the inverse of CJVB. During the day from Monday to Saturday, it airs world music programming and programs in Filipino, German, Hungarian, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. The weekly Asian Influence program presents the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese pop charts. The conditions of CHKG-FM's licence prevent it from airing Chinese-language programs between 6:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. After 3:00 p.m. and all day on Sundays, CHKG-FM presents Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese shows.
References
External links
Fairchild Radio
Hkg
Hkg
CHKG
Radio stations established in 1997
1997 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%20McQueen | Glenn John McQueen (December 24, 1960 – October 29, 2002) was a Canadian supervisor of digital animation and supervising character animator at Pixar and Pacific Data Images.
Personal life
McQueen graduated from Sheridan College in 1985. He was sent by Sheridan on a scholarship to the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab, where he worked as head of the 3D production department, which made film effects, television commercials, and scientific visuals.
In 1994, he moved to Pixar, partly due to his interest in Toy Story and his respect for John Lasseter, where he supervised the animation on Pixar's early successes, including Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Monsters, Inc.
McQueen also served as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. He and his wife, Terry, had a daughter.
Death
In December 2001, McQueen was diagnosed with melanoma, but he stated that he would continue working at Pixar. He died on October 29, 2002, at his home in Berkeley, California, at the age of 41, from complications of the disease. His death occurred during the production of Finding Nemo, which is dedicated to him. His former colleagues also paid homage by naming the main character in the film Cars Lightning McQueen.
Legacy
McQueen has admirers all over the world for his work and has been hailed as one of the best animators in the field. Pixar co-founder John Lasseter called McQueen "a great animator, a great friend and a fantastic family man" and "the heart and soul of our animation department", and also said that "Glenn is not gone from us. He’s still alive in all of us."
Pixar opened a new studio in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, which would be named the Glenn McQueen Pixar Animation Center to honor McQueen. It was planned to be around and be located in the downtown area of Vancouver. The studio focused on producing short films and television episodes based on Pixar characters. Job qualifications were released in 2009 and the studio opened in spring 2010, producing many shorts including Small Fry (2011) and Partysaurus Rex (2012).
In October 2013, the studio was closed down in order to re-focus Pixar's efforts at its main headquarters.
Filmography
Director
1991: The Last Halloween
1991: Slide Show
Animator
1992: Sleepwalkers
1995: Toy Story
Supervising animator
1998: A Bug's Life
1999: Toy Story 2
2001: Monsters, Inc.
Character animator
1994: Angels in the Outfield
References
External links
1960 births
2002 deaths
Canadian animators
Deaths from melanoma
Deaths from cancer in California
Artists from Toronto
Sheridan College alumni
Sheridan College animation program alumni
Pixar people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen%20Bell | Gwen Bell (20 July 1934, Elkader, Iowa) was the first president of The Computer Museum in Boston, which she co-founded with her husband Gordon Bell.
Life
Bell earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1957, and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Harvard University in 1959. In 1967 she earned her PhD in geography from Clark University.
From 1966 to 1972, she was an associate professor of urban affairs at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. In 1972, she was a visiting associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. During this time period she was also the editor of the monthly periodical Ekistics: The Problems and Science of Human Settlements of Ekistics in Athens, Greece (1966–1977) and a consultant to the United Nations for Indonesia, the Philippines, and Brazil (1970–1977).
After a short stint in 1978 as a social science editor for Pergamon Press (1978), Bell co-founded and became the first President of The Computer Museum (1979–1997). Bell also served as President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from 1992 to 1994.
References
1934 births
Living people
Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Clark University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20700 | The Silent 700, introduced in 1971, was a line of portable computer terminals manufactured by Texas Instruments in the 1970s and 1980s. Silent 700s printed with a 5 x 7 dot-matrix heating element onto a roll of heat-sensitive paper. Some models were equipped with an integrated acoustic coupler and modem that could receive data at 30 characters per second. Other models could be directly connected to computers at 300 bits per second (bit/s), and were sometimes used as the System console where a hard copy record of the activities would be retained for a period of time.
Local capabilities
A pair of local tape cartridge devices were included, and data could be edited, tape-to-tape, for later transmission.
Model 725
The Model 725 added the ability to switch-select bit rates of 110, 150 and 300, corresponding to 10, 15 or 30 characters per second.
Model 745
The Model 745 was introduced late 1975 as "the lightest-weight portable now available."
1200 bit/s
As 1200 bit/s dialup communication became more common among Time-sharing providers, the Silent 700 faced the problem that its printhead technology simply couldn't "heat up all the little dots" at 120 characters per second. TI solved this in their 780-series terminals by creating a two-character-wide thermal head, which printed 60 pairs of characters per second. This allowed the product line to survive a few more years in the new high-speed interactive computing environment of the mid-1980s.
References
External links
Silent 700 electronic data terminals from Texas Instruments, June 1972 (pdf)
Silent 700 Electronic Data Terminals, 1976(PDF)
Texas Instruments hardware
Computer terminals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketball | Rocketball is a sports-action Commodore 64 computer game released by IJK Software in 1985. Rocketball was coded by John Sinclair and has music by L Pilling. Rocketball is based on the futuristic sports movie Rollerball, released in 1975, starring James Caan. Rocketball'''s taglines were, "The rules are, there are no rules", and "This was never meant to be a game."
GameplayRocketball is set in the year 2010 AD, where worldwide disputes are no longer settled through wars, but through a circular Rocket Ball arena.
The game is similar to Roller Derby in that two teams on roller skates travel counter-clockwise around a banked, circular track. The object of the game is to score points by throwing a softball-sized metal ball into a cone-shaped goal target inset into the wall of the arena. Balls are fired into play, in the same direction players skate, by cannons when play begins and to restart play after the ball rolls out of play or a goal is scored. Players can use fists, elbows and knees to disable their opponents.
Each Rocketball team has five active players on roller skates. Unlike the film, there are no players riding motorcycles. The four Rocketball teams are Houston (wearing blue), Tokyo (yellow), Moscow (burgundy) and Madrid (Green), which correspond to futuristic city states. (The teams Houston, Tokyo and Madrid also featured in the Rollerball film.)
Games have a duration of ten minutes.
PackagingRocketball came in a Single Cassette Case. It boasted super-smooth scrolling, being written in 100% machine code, and a shadow on the ball.
See alsoKillerball''
References
1985 video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Fantasy sports video games
Roller derby mass media
Video games set in 2010
Alternate history video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite%20Animation%20Studios | Sprite Animation Studios is a computer animation studio founded in 2002 by former members of Square USA led by Motonori "Moto" Sakakibara, co-director of Square Pictures and Columbia Pictures’ feature film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The studio specializes in the design and creation of 3D computer animation for film and television productions, video games, and commercial advertising, and its short productions have screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and other venues.
In 2009, Sprite entered into a partnership with OLM, Inc., a famous Japanese animation studio, producer of Pokémon.
Television series
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2013–2016) (co-production Arad Productions, 41 Entertainment, Bandai Namco Entertainment, and Namco and OLM Digital)
Sushi Ninja (2014) (co-production with Genco)
Yo-Kai Watch (2015–2018) (co-production with OLM Digital)
Kong: King of the Apes (2016–2018) (co-production Arad Animation, 41 Entertainment and OLM Digital)
Hot Wheels Let's Race (2024) (co-production with Mattel Television)
Films
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (2016)
References
External links
American animation studios
Mass media companies established in 2002
Privately held companies based in California
Imagica Robot Holdings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMSA | The initialism OMSA may stand for:
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
OpenManage Server Administrator, a component of Dell Computer's OpenManage monitoring and management product for servers
Online Master of Science in Analytics in Georgia Institute of Technology
Otago Malaysian Students' Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Cluster%20Application%20Resources | Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) is a Linux-based software installation for high-performance cluster computing. OSCAR allows users to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster.
See also
TORQUE Resource Manager
Maui Cluster Scheduler
Beowulf cluster
External links
Official OSCAR site
github repository
Cluster computing
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDiarmid%27s%20inequality | In probability theory and theoretical computer science, McDiarmid's inequality is a concentration inequality which bounds the deviation between the sampled value and the expected value of certain functions when they are evaluated on independent random variables. McDiarmid's inequality applies to functions that satisfy a bounded differences property, meaning that replacing a single argument to the function while leaving all other arguments unchanged cannot cause too large of a change in the value of the function.
Statement
A function satisfies the bounded differences property if substituting the value of the th coordinate changes the value of by at most . More formally, if there are constants such that for all , and all ,
Extensions
Unbalanced distributions
A stronger bound may be given when the arguments to the function are sampled from unbalanced distributions, such that resampling a single argument rarely causes a large change to the function value.
This may be used to characterize, for example, the value of a function on graphs when evaluated on sparse random graphs and hypergraphs, since in a sparse random graph, it is much more likely for any particular edge to be missing than to be present.
Differences bounded with high probability
McDiarmid's inequality may be extended to the case where the function being analyzed does not strictly satisfy the bounded differences property, but large differences remain very rare.
There exist stronger refinements to this analysis in some distribution-dependent scenarios, such as those that arise in learning theory.
Sub-Gaussian and sub-exponential norms
Let the th centered conditional version of a function be
so that is a random variable depending on random values of .
Bennett and Bernstein forms
Refinements to McDiarmid's inequality in the style of Bennett's inequality and Bernstein inequalities are made possible by defining a variance term for each function argument. Let
Proof
The following proof of McDiarmid's inequality constructs the Doob martingale tracking the conditional expected value of the function as more and more of its arguments are sampled and conditioned on, and then applies a martingale concentration inequality (Azuma's inequality).
An alternate argument avoiding the use of martingales also exists, taking advantage of the independence of the function arguments to provide a Chernoff-bound-like argument.
For better readability, we will introduce a notational shorthand: will denote for any and integers , so that, for example,
Pick any . Then, for any , by triangle inequality,
and thus is bounded.
Since is bounded, define the Doob martingale (each being a random variable depending on the random values of ) as
for all and , so that .
Now define the random variables for each
Since are independent of each other, conditioning on does not affect the probabilities of the other variables, so these are equal to the expressions
Note that . In addition,
Then |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Divide%20Data | DDD is a social enterprise that delivers digital content, data and research services to clients worldwide. Customers receive high-quality competitively priced digital content services. At the same time, DDD's innovative social model enables talented youth from low-income families to access professional opportunities and earn lasting higher income. This model, established by DDD in 2001, is now called "impact sourcing” and has been implemented by dozens of firms around the world. Featured in Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat as an example of socially responsible outsourcing, DDD's clients include Reader's Digest, Harvard Business School, New York Daily News, Ancestry.com, and Stanford University.
History
In February 2001, Jeremy Hockenstein (co-founder and CEO of DDD) travelled to Angkor Wat and was struck by the mix of poverty and progress in Cambodia. Though there were computer schools offering training to young people, there were still no jobs for the students once they graduated. Recognizing the opportunity to make a difference, Jeremy assembled a group of friends, who all saw an opportunity for growth: applying India's outsourcing model to Southeast Asia could provide jobs and contribute to the region's development. The group returned to Cambodia during the summer and founded Digital Divide Data, (now known as DDD) with a plan to start a data entry operation in Phnom Penh.
DDD opened for business in July 2001. The enterprise began as a single small office in Phnom Penh, digitizing the Harvard Crimson. In 2003, Digital Divide Data opened an office in Vientiane, Laos, which in early 2004 was followed by a third office in Battambang, Cambodia. The Battambang operation was merged into the Phnom Penh office in 2012. A fourth operations center was opened in Nairobi, Kenya in April 2011.
DDD currently operates three offices with over 1000 staff. It is currently the largest technology employer in Cambodia and Laos.
Social Model
The innovative work/study program that is core to DDD's social enterprise enables young women and men from very poor families to gain work experience plus access to higher education. As a result, they secure professional jobs and earn lasting higher incomes, breaking the cycle of poverty. Since 2001, the projected increase in lifetime earnings for youth in DDD's program is more than $250 million.
DDD recruits disadvantaged high school graduates, ages 17–24, including young women and men, and youth with disabilities. Recruited youth participate in a work/study program which offers training, employment, and the opportunity to complete higher education. A rigorous recruitment process ensures that the youth who join DDD have the skills, commitment and maturity to succeed in the work/study program.
Participants typically work 36 hours a week providing digital content services to clients. After a one-year probation period, they are eligible for a scholarship package to support their university education. Once enrolled i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskless%20shared-root%20cluster | A diskless shared-root cluster is a way to manage several machines at the same time. Instead of each having its own operating system (OS) on its local disk, there is only one image of the OS available on a server, and all the nodes use the same image. (SSI cluster = single-system image)
The simplest way to achieve this is to use a NFS server, configured to host the generic boot image for the SSI cluster nodes. (pxe + dhcp + tftp + nfs)
To ensure that there is no single point of failure, the NFS export for the boot-image should be hosted on a two node cluster.
The architecture of a diskless computer cluster makes it possible to separate servers and storage array. The operating system as well as the actual reference data (userfiles, databases or websites) are stored competitively on the attached storage system in a centralized manner. Any server that acts as a cluster node can be easily exchanged by demand.
The additional abstraction layer between storage system and computing power eases the scale out of the infrastructure. Most notably the storage capacity, the computing power and the network bandwidth can be scaled independent from one another.
A similar technology can be found in VMScluster (OpenVMS) and TruCluster (Tru64 UNIX).
The open-source implementation of a diskless shared-root cluster is known as Open-Sharedroot.
Literature
Marc Grimme, Mark Hlawatschek, Thomas Merz: Data sharing with a Red Hat GFS storage cluster
Marc Grimme, Mark Hlawatschek German Whitepaper: Der Diskless Shared-root Cluster (PDF-Datei; 1,1 MB)
Kenneth W. Preslan: Red Hat GFS 6.1 – Administrator’s Guide
References
Cluster computing
Parallel computing
Computer networking |
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