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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered%20power%20zone | A registered power zone (RPZ) is an area of the National Grid (UK) network, geographical or electrical, specifically designated for the research, development and demonstration (R,D&D) of new technologies concerning the power network. Specifically to develop solutions to the problems associated with connecting generating capacity at the distribution network level.
Current RPZ
There are currently three registered power zones in the UK, operated by different distribution network operators:
Skegness and The Fens, operated by Central Networks
Island of Orkney, operated by Scottish Hydro Electric
Marsham primary, operated by EDF Energy
Future development
The scheme has been successful in initializing development of tools, computer software and devices to facilitate the connection of distributed/embedded generation. This is essential to the growth of renewable energy usage in the UK. It is hoped that the most successful outputs of the RPZ schemes can be rolled out nationwide after 2010.
References
National Grid (Great Britain)
Electric power in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita%20Borisov | Nikita Borisov is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His notable work includes one of the first cryptanalyses of the WEP wireless encryption protocol together with Ian Goldberg and David Wagner, and the design of the Off-the-Record Messaging protocol with Goldberg.
Borisov received a B. Math in computer science and pure math in 1997 from the University of Waterloo. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and 2005, respectively.
References
External links
nikita Nikita Borisov's page at UIUC
Living people
20th-century births
Modern cryptographers
Cypherpunks
Computer security academics
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Waterloo alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Sonic | Sea Sonic Electronics Co., Ltd. (), stylized as Seasonic, is a Taiwanese power supply and computer PSU manufacturer and retailer, formerly limited to trading hardware OEM for other companies. They first started making power supplies for the PC industry in the 1981. All of their PSUs are certified 80 Plus.
In 2002, Sea Sonic established a wholly owned subsidiary in California to sell products in the US retail market and to provide technical support.
History
1975 Sea Sonic incorporated to manufacture Electronic Test Equipment.
1981 Sea Sonic enters the PC power supply market
1984 Headquarters relocates to Shilin, Republic of China.
1986 The factory phases in Automated Test Equipment in production methodology, this is the first in switching power supply manufacturing in Taiwan.
1990 Second factory in Taoyuan County (now Taoyuan City), Taiwan begins operation.
1993 European office opens in The Netherlands.
1994 Dong Guan China I factory begins full operation.
1995 Sea Sonic develops an ATX power supply for the Pentium market.
1997 Dong Guan factory receives ISO9002 certification.
1998 The Dong Guan II factory begins full operation. Taiwan headquarters and Taoyuan factory receive ISO9001 certification.
1999 Headquarters relocates to present address at Neihu, Taipei.
2000 Dong Guan factory receives ISO 9001 certification. The first PSU maker to provide PC and IPC market cost-effective Active PFC (Power Factor Correction) solutions. Designs and applies S2FC (Smart & Silent Fan Control) towards PC and IPC products.
2002 USA office opens in California, USA. Sea Sonic Electronics Co., Ltd. lists on Taiwan's Gre Tai Securities Market (OTC Stock Exchange).
2003 Launched retail products with own brand name and won awards and recommendations worldwide.
2004 Dedicated to develop green and silent power supplies with higher efficiency and higher power output.
2005 The USA office was renamed as Sea Sonic Electronics Inc., a 100% Sea Sonic owned subsidiary, to serve North and South America customers. The first PSU manufacturer to win the 80 Plus efficiency certification.
2006 Dong Guan factory receives ISO14001 certification. Began to mass-produce RoHS & WEEE compliant products.
2008 European subsidiary opens in the Netherlands to serve the European market. Dong Guan Factory II begins full operation.
2009 Sea Sonic is first in the market to achieve 80 PLUS® Gold rating by introducing the X-Series power supplies.
2010 Sea Sonic introduces the world's first 80 PLUS® Gold rated fanless models to the worldwide retail market.
2011 The 80 PLUS® Platinum rated 860 W and 1000 W models get introduced.
2012 Japan subsidiary opens in Tokyo. The 80 PLUS® Platinum rated 400 W, 460 W, and 520 W ultra-silent fanless models enter the world market.
2013 The S12G 80 PLUS® Gold-, and the M12II EVO 80 PLUS® Bronze-rated power supplies get introduced.
2014 Sea Sonic launches the 80 PLUS® Platinum 1050 W and 1200 W, and the 80 PLUS® Gold X-Series 1050 W and 1250 W models.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas%20%28data%20centre%29 | Mimas was a nationally designated academic data centre based at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Its mission was to support the advancement of knowledge, research, and teaching. It hosted a number of the UK's research information assets – and built applications to help people access this resource. The organisation had a long-standing relationship with Jisc, and strong connections with research councils, especially the Economic and Social Research Council. Mimas was transferred to Jisc in .
See also
Archives Hub
Copac
ESDS International
IESR
Intute
UK PubMed Central
Landmap
References
External links
Education in England
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Jisc
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
Research institutes in Manchester
University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21%20Pipes | Yahoo! Pipes was a web application from Yahoo! that provided a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services; creating Web-based apps from various sources; and publishing those apps. The application worked by enabling users to "pipe" information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified (for example, filtering). In addition to the pipe editing page, the website had a documentation page and a discussion page. The documentation page contained information about pipes including guides for the pipe editor and troubleshooting. The discussion page enabled users to discuss the pipes with other users.
History
Yahoo! Pipes was released to the public in beta on 7 February 2007. It was built by Pasha Sadri, Ed Ho, Jonathan Trevor, Ido Green, and Daniel Raffel of Yahoo! It is described by its creators as:
On 4 June 2015, it was announced that Pipes would be in read-only mode from 30 August 2015, and shut down on 30 September 2015. Yahoo did not offer a paid version, but instead shut down the program entirely.
Purpose
The purpose of Yahoo! Pipes was to create new pages by aggregating RSS feeds from different sources. Yahoo! Pipes had many modules which could be used either to grab data from sources or to edit the data that was grabbed from the sources. These modules were grouped into categories: sources, user inputs, operators, URL, string, date, location, and number.
Creating and editing a Pipe
To create or edit a pipe, the user had to sign up with a Yahoo! ID.
Creation and editing of the pipes was completely online;
the user didn't have to download a plug-in, program or app.
The user selected the "Create a pipe" option to open the Pipe Editor. The pipe editor was composed of three panes: the canvas, the library, and the debugger. The pipe was created using these panes. After creation, the pipe was saved and run. The user was then able to give a name and short description to the pipe. If the creator of the pipe decided to publish the pipe, it would become visible for everyone. Other users had the ability to clone the pipe, which they could then edit for their own use.
The Canvas
The canvas was the main pane where the editing of pipes was done. It was in the center of the page. Modules that were selected from the Library pane were dragged on this pane and connected together. After the modules were wired in the desired order, the pipe was ready to be used.
The Library
The Library was the place where the modules are selected to be dragged on the Canvas. These modules were grouped by their functions. The library pane was on the left hand side.
Sources
In this category, there were modules which were used to grab data from one or multiple sources on internet.
User Inputs
The modules in this category enabled user to add an input in the pipe. By using the modules in this category, user could add date, location, number, text, or URL input to the pipe.
Ope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20start%20%28recommender%20systems%29 | Cold start is a potential problem in computer-based information systems which involves a degree of automated data modelling. Specifically, it concerns the issue that the system cannot draw any inferences for users or items about which it has not yet gathered sufficient information.
Systems affected
The cold start problem is a well known and well researched problem for recommender systems. Recommender systems form a specific type of information filtering (IF) technique that attempts to present information items (e-commerce, films, music, books, news, images, web pages) that are likely of interest to the user. Typically, a recommender system compares the user's profile to some reference characteristics. These characteristics may be related to item characteristics (content-based filtering) or the user's social environment and past behavior (collaborative filtering).
Depending on the system, the user can be associated to various kinds of interactions: ratings, bookmarks, purchases, likes, number of page visits etc.
There are three cases of cold start:
New community: refers to the start-up of the recommender, when, although a catalogue of items might exist, almost no users are present and the lack of user interaction makes it very hard to provide reliable recommendations
New item: a new item is added to the system, it might have some content information but no interactions are present
New user: a new user registers and has not provided any interaction yet, therefore it is not possible to provide personalized recommendations
New community
The new community problem, or systemic bootstrapping, refers to the startup of the system, when virtually no information the recommender can rely upon is present.
This case presents the disadvantages of both the New user and the New item case, as all items and users are new.
Due to this some of the techniques developed to deal with those two cases are not applicable to the system bootstrapping.
New item
The item cold-start problem refers to when items added to the catalogue have either none or very little interactions. This constitutes a problem mainly for collaborative filtering algorithms due to the fact that they rely on the item's interactions to make recommendations. If no interactions are available then a pure collaborative algorithm cannot recommend the item. In case only a few interactions are available, although a collaborative algorithm will be able to recommend it, the quality of those recommendations will be poor.
This raises another issue, which is not anymore related to new items, but rather to unpopular items.
In some cases (e.g. movie recommendations) it might happen that a handful of items receive an extremely high number of interactions, while most of the items only receive a fraction of them. This is referred to as popularity bias.
In the context of cold-start items the popularity bias is important because it might happen that many items, even if they have been in the catalogue for months, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referatory | A referatory is the name given to a web application system (also known as a database-driven website). It provides information such as the name and description, reviews, and hyperlinks (metadata) to resources or learning objects in a repository. The repository provides the actual resource files, while the referatory is a website pointing at the resources. Generally the idea of a referatory is derived from the domain of education.
External links
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - Merlot
K-18, Ontario Educational Resource Bank (login required)
D-Space (higher education)
KlasCement.net, Flemish user generated Portal for Education (register for free)
Instructional Repositories and Referatories
Web applications
Web archiving initiatives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20over%20PDH | Ethernet over PDH or EoPDH is one of many techniques that provided Ethernet connectivity over non-Ethernet networks. Specifically, EoPDH is a standardized methodology for transporting native Ethernet frames over the existing telecommunications copper infrastructure by leveraging the established PDH transport technology. EoPDH is one of several Ethernet transport technologies that enables Telecommunication Service Providers to offer "Carrier Ethernet" services. Also commonly used as a means of connecting businesses to a Metro Ethernet network.
EoPDH is based on a collection of technologies and standards that allow telecommunications Carriers to make use of their extensive networks of legacy PDH and SONET/SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) equipment to provide new Ethernet services. In addition, the collection of EoPDH standards provide for interoperability and the gradual migration of Carriers to Ethernet network.
General Description
EoPDH is a standardized methodology for transporting native Ethernet frames over PDH links such as T1, E1, or DS3. The technologies used in EoPDH include GFP frame encapsulation, Ethernet Mapping, Virtual Concatenation, Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme, and Management Messaging (OAM). Common practices in EoPDH equipment also include the tagging of traffic for separation into virtual networks, prioritization of user traffic, and a broad range of higher-layer applications such as DHCP servers and HTML user interfaces.
Related Standards
Standards from the ITU-T:
ITU-T G.7041 Generic Framing Procedure
ITU-T G.7042 Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme
ITU-T G.7043 Virtual concatenation of plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH) signals
ITU-T G.8040 GFP frame mapping into Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
ITU-T Y.1730 Requirements for OAM functions
ITU-T Y.1731 OAM functions and mechanisms
See also
Ethernet over SONET and Ethernet over SDH
Ethernet over PDH over SONET/SDH
Packet over SONET/SDH
Metro Ethernet
External links
Ethernet-over-PDH Technology Overview
EoPDH Equipment
Flash clip explaining EoPDH and EoPDH Equipment
PDH
Synchronous optical networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto%20no%20Shitag%C5%8D | was a mid Heian waka poet, scholar and nobleman. He was also a male-line descendant of Emperor Saga. He was the original compiler of the Wamyō Ruijushō, the first Japanese dictionary organized into semantic headings. He was designated as one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals for his distinguished poetic accomplishments. In addition to the Wamyō Ruijushō, his remaining works include a poetry collection known as the . Some scholars claim that he is the author of the Taketori Monogatari (Tale of the Bamboo Cutter). Ziro Uraki also posits him as a possible author of Utsuho Monogatari (Tale of the Hollow Tree) in the foreword to his English translation of that work.
As one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber he assisted in the compilation of the waka anthology Gosen Wakashū. He also compiled kun'yomi readings for texts from the revered Man'yōshū anthology.
External links
E-text of his poems in Japanese
Online text of the Wamyō Ruijushō
911 births
983 deaths
Minamoto clan
Nobility from Kyoto
Japanese nobility
Nobility from Japan
Deified Japanese people
Deified men
Imperial House of Japan
Japanese lexicographers
10th-century Japanese poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-Soma | Electro-Soma is the debut studio album by British electronic music duo B12. It was released on Warp on 29 March 1993 and is the fourth release in Warp's Artificial Intelligence series. Some of the album's tracks had been previously released on the duo's own B12 Record label under their pseudonyms Musicology, Redcell, and Cmetric. Thus, Electro-Soma functions more as a compilation of some their earliest material than as a proper full-length LP, much like Incunabula by Autechre.
The vinyl release includes the exclusive track "Drift", but excludes the tracks "Debris", "Satori", and "Static Emotion", present on the CD release. A limited edition vinyl release also exists on orange vinyl. Although not noted on the case or booklet, the US compact disc distribution on Wax Trax! Records/TVT Records includes "Drift" as well as all 12 tracks originally included on the UK Warp compact disc.
Track listing
Personnel
B12
Mike Golding – mixing, production, recording, sequencing
Steve Rutter – mixing, production, recording, sequencing
Additional personnel
The Designers Republic Eclectroset – design
Percival – artwork
References
External links
Electro-Soma at Warp
1993 albums
B12 (band) albums
Warp (record label) albums
Albums with cover art by The Designers Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Tourist | Time Tourist, or TimeTourist, is an album released by B12 in 1996 on Warp. The inventive packaging for the album makes it appear as if TimeTourist is an educational computer game written in a dystopian year 2166 and which looks back on the late 20th century as a primitive and quaint time in the development of mankind.
The track title "VOID/Comm" refers to "VOID/Comm R&D", a fictional 22nd-century company whose "B12 Systems" division developed "WorldCOM", a shared-mind technology which frees humans from physical interpersonal contact and the need to use very much of their brains. "VOID/Comm" is likely in reference to the Voigt/Kampf test administered in Blade Runner. The album's packaging makes reference to a number of other science fiction names corrupted over two centuries — Phettt (Boba Fett), Hein Len (Robert A. Heinlein), Seaclarc (Arthur C. Clarke), A.C Mov (Isaac Asimov), and Kaydich (Philip K. Dick) — as well as to the Roddenberry and Lucas "Sacred StarTexts".
Although the featured artist for the album is B12, on the packaging, each track is associated with one of B12's aliases: CMetric, Redcell, or Musicology.
Track listing
"VOID/Comm" – 5:50
"Infinite Lites" – 5:21
"Cymetry" – 5:58
"Gimp" – 7:21
"DB5" – 1:42
"Phettt" – 5:52
"Epillion" – 7:08
"Scriptures" – 6:58
"The Silicon Garden" – 3:29
"Radiophonic Workshop" – 6:20
References
1996 albums
B12 (band) albums
Warp (record label) albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Loren%20Mauldin | Michael Loren "Fuzzy" Mauldin () (born March 23, 1959) is an American retired computer scientist and the inventor of the Lycos web search engine.
He has written 2 books, 10 refereed papers, and several technical reports on natural-language processing, autonomous information agents, information retrieval, and expert systems. He is also one of the authors of Rog-O-Matic and Julia, a Turing test competitor in the Loebner Prize.
Verbot, a defunct chatbot program, is based on Mauldin's work.
Mauldin is an active competitor in the Robot Fighting League.
Early life and education
Mauldin was born on March 23, 1959, in Dallas, Texas, to Jimmie Alton Mauldin and Marilyn Jean Taylor. In 1974 the family moved to Midland, Texas and Michael enrolled in Midland High School and graduated valedictorian in 1977. In 1981, he received a bachelor's degree from Rice University. In 1983, he received master's degree and in 1989, he received a Ph.D., both from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His Ph.D. advisor was Jaime Carbonell.
Career
In 1994, while working at CMU on the Informedia Digital Library project, Mauldin created Lycos from 3 pages of code. Along with CMU, he sold 80% of the company to CMGI for $2 million.
In 1996, Lycos was the fastest company ever to become a public company via an initial public offering. Mauldin sold his stake in Lycos during the dot-com bubble and retired.
In 1997, he left Lycos to form Conversive with Peter Plantec. The company was an artificial intelligence software company that created self-animated computer-generated human characters. He remained on the board of directors of the company until 2013, when it was acquired by Avaya.
In 2000, after watching BattleBots, Mauldin built a robot and became a successful competitor in robot combat.
In August 2015, he became a member of the board of directors of Lycos, now owned by Suresh Reddy.
In 2017, he appeared on Robot Wars as the team captain for the "rest of the world" team.
Patents
Mauldin is the inventor or co-inventor of the following 4 patents:
US 5,748,954 - "Method for searching a queued and ranked constructed catalog of files stored on a network"
US 5,835,667 - "Method and apparatus for creating a searchable digital video library and a system and method of using such a library"
US 5,664,227 - "System and method for skimming digital audio/video data"
US 7,253,817 - "Virtual human interface for conducting surveys"
Personal life
Mauldin is married to Debbie and they have grown children. In addition to robot combat, they enjoy traveling via recreational vehicle and driving his Jeep Wrangler Sahara through the desert. They owned an 81-acre ranch near Austin, Texas. He is also an active bowler with a Brunswick Pearl engraved with his name "Fuzzy". Mauldin was recruited by Google but opted to stay retired.
References
1959 births
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
Rice University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%E2%80%93Hut%20simulation | The Barnes–Hut simulation (named after Josh Barnes and Piet Hut) is an approximation algorithm for performing an n-body simulation. It is notable for having order O(n log n) compared to a direct-sum algorithm which would be O(n2).
The simulation volume is usually divided up into cubic cells via an octree (in a three-dimensional space), so that only particles from nearby cells need to be treated individually, and particles in distant cells can be treated as a single large particle centered at the cell's center of mass (or as a low-order multipole expansion). This can dramatically reduce the number of particle pair interactions that must be computed.
Some of the most demanding high-performance computing projects do computational astrophysics using the Barnes–Hut treecode algorithm,
such as DEGIMA.
Algorithm
The Barnes–Hut tree
In a three-dimensional n-body simulation, the Barnes–Hut algorithm recursively divides the n bodies into groups by storing them in an octree (or a quad-tree in a 2D simulation). Each node in this tree represents a region of the three-dimensional space.
The topmost node represents the whole space, and its eight children represent the eight octants of the space. The space is recursively subdivided into octants until each subdivision contains 0 or 1 bodies (some regions do not have bodies in all of their octants).
There are two types of nodes in the octree: internal and external nodes. An external node has no children and is either empty or represents a single body. Each internal node represents the group of bodies beneath it, and stores the center of mass and the total mass of all its children bodies.
Calculating the force acting on a body
To calculate the net force on a particular body, the nodes of the tree are traversed, starting from the root. If the center of mass of an internal node is sufficiently far from the body, the bodies contained in that part of the tree are treated as a single particle whose position and mass is respectively the center of mass and total mass of the internal node. If the internal node is sufficiently close to the body, the process is repeated for each of its children.
Whether a node is or isn't sufficiently far away from a body, depends on the quotient , where s is the width of the region represented by the internal node, and d is the distance between the body and the node's center of mass. The node is sufficiently far away when this ratio is smaller than a threshold value θ. The parameter θ determines the accuracy of the simulation; larger values of θ increase the speed of the simulation but decreases its accuracy. If θ = 0, no internal node is treated as a single body and the algorithm degenerates to a direct-sum algorithm.
See also
NEMO (Stellar Dynamics Toolbox)
Nearest neighbor search
Fast multipole method
References and sources
References
Sources
External links
Treecodes, J. Barnes
Parallel TreeCode
HTML5/JavaScript Example Graphical Barnes–Hut Simulation
PEPC – The Prett |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestiny | Clandestiny, published in 1996 by Virgin Games and developed by Trilobyte, is a video-based puzzle computer game. After the profit loss of The 11th Hour, the second game created by Trilobyte, the producers went on to make a more kid-friendly version of The 7th Guest series. The game was re-released in January 2011 on the Mac App Store.
Gameplay
Clandestiny is the third puzzle game made by Trilobyte, and provides an interesting mix of first-person gameplay and third-person cartoon. Like that of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, the game is played by wandering a castle, solving logic puzzles and watching animated videos that further the story. The main protagonist, Andrew MacPhiles, grows as a character and learns the secrets of his family's past along with the help of an array of characters who further the story giving clues and hints along the way.
A fairly simple plot is played out by animated characters through animated clips as you progress between rooms by solving puzzles of shifting nature and increasing difficulty. The puzzles include mazes, chess problems, logical deductions, and word manipulations. Another re-hash of the previous games is the cursors used in the game, which are exact copies of those from the preceding games.
Plot
The story is of a young man named Andrew J. MacPhiles (voiced by W. Morgan Sheppard) who has recently inherited a Scottish castle, being the last MacPhiles standing, full of ghosts, and an earldom along with it. With his girlfriend Paula (who wants to be the next Countess MacPhiles) and a friendly handyman named Fergus, Andrew must solve the mystery of the MacPhiles curse and the goal of an evil force trying to claim the ancient legacy of the MacPhiles.
As he explores the castle and solves various puzzles, he learns that the curse is one of cowardice - many ghosts reveal they died because of their own cowardice or the cowardice of a family member. He also discovers that the butler is actually a dragon that is an enemy of the MacPhiles, and is trying to locate the Stone of Scone, a powerful magical stone, somewhere in the castle.
Andrew eventually slays the dragon, finds the Stone of Scone, but the castle is destroyed in the process. Andrew, Paula, and Fergus pack up the car to head back home with the Stone of Scone, but only Fergus is aware that all the MacPhile ghosts are tagging along...
Development
During development the game was to be titled "Castle". All backgrounds were designed and drawn using Autodesk 3D. The characters were drawn and animated using Animo, which was also used to draw sketches before being rendered by Autodesk. So many images were produced that they had to be stored in an entire room.
Reception
Clandestiny sold 20,000 units.
References
External links
1996 video games
MacOS games
Puzzle video games
ScummVM-supported games
Single-player video games
Trilobyte (company) games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in castles
Video games set in Scotland
Virgin Int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Business | Fox Business (officially known as Fox Business Network, or FBN) is an American conservative business news channel and website publication owned by the Fox News Media division of Fox Corporation. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. Launched on October 15, 2007, the network features trading day coverage and a nightly lineup of opinion-based talk shows.
Day-to-day operations are run by Kevin Magee, executive vice president of Fox News; Neil Cavuto is the vice president and managing editor for the network and business news operation overall.
As of February 2015, Fox Business Network is available to approximately 74,224,000 pay television households (63.8% of households with television) in the United States.
History
News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch confirmed the launch at his keynote address at the 2007 McGraw-Hill Media Summit on February 8, 2007. Murdoch had publicly stated that if News Corporation's purchase of The Wall Street Journal went through and if it were legally possible, he would have rechristened the channel with a name that has "Journal" in it. However, on July 11, 2007, News Corporation announced that the new channel would be called Fox Business Network (FBN), a name chosen over Fox Business Channel due to the pre-existing (though seldom used) legal abbreviation of "FBC" for the co-owned broadcast network Fox Broadcasting Company.
Before the network launched, few specific facts were made public as to the type of programming approach Fox Business would be taking. However, some details emerged as to how it would differentiate itself from its main competitor, CNBC. At a media summit hosted by BusinessWeek magazine, Rupert Murdoch was quoted as saying CNBC was too "negative towards business". They promised to make Fox Business more "business friendly". In addition, it was expected that Fox Business would not be "poaching" a lot of CNBC's on-air talent in the immediate future, as most key on-air personalities had been locked into a long-term contract. However, that still left open the possibility of the network taking some of CNBC's other staff, including editors, producers and other reporters.
The channel launched on October 15, 2007. The network is placed on channel 43 in the New York City market in the basic-tier pay-TV package, which is home to the NYSE and NASDAQ stock exchanges. It is paired with sister network Fox News Channel, which moved to channel 44 (CNBC is carried on channel 15 on Time Warner Cable's New York City area systems). FBN received carriage on Cablevision channel 106, only available via subscription to its IO Digital Cable package. According to an article in Multichannel News, NBC Universal paid up to "several million dollars" in order to ensure that CNBC and Fox Business would be separated on the dial, and in order to retain CNBC's "premium" channel slot. At the time FBN was carried on Time Warner Cable only on its analog service in New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy%20Congress | Fantasy Congress is an online game structured like fantasy sports where data gathered about congress is converted into points. Players create teams of individuals elected to the US House and Senate and members of congress acquire points based on legislative activity. Like fantasy sports, teams compete in small groups called leagues. At the end of the "season", each team with the most points in their league wins.
History
Fantasy Congress was initially launched in 2006 as an online fantasy sport simulation where players would draft members of the United States House and Senate and keep track of their participation within the U.S. Congress. A congressperson's actions, especially within the process of making and amending pieces of legislation, were recorded and rated as a cumulative total number of points against other players.
Points were calculated based on "Legislative success" (including co-sponsored legislation and amendments), voting attendance, "Maverick Score" (the willingness of a member of Congress to cross-party lines in close party votes), and noteworthy news mentions. Legislative success was the progress of a congressperson's sponsored or cosponsored legislation through the U.S. legislative process, all the way up to the President's signature or veto. Also, small legislative actions counted for points, such as amendments and changes to the legislation.
This version of Fantasy Congress, which ran from 2006 to 2009, was meant to appeal to both recreational and educational players. It offered a wide range of links and research tools to help players in choosing their members of Congress. The creators believed the game could make the government more accountable.
In 2018 the Fantasy Congress website was revived under new ownership. A new game was introduced that encouraged players to predict which individuals were most likely to get elected, instead of their legislative success.
Players began by drafting candidates running for office. During the election season, candidates acquired points based on how much money they raised, frequency of media mentions, and their percentage of the vote in the election. Similar to fantasy sports, players could drop candidates from their roster and add new ones throughout the season. Teams won by collecting the most points in their league by the end of the 2018 midterm elections.
After the 2018 election, the game was re-released around following legislative activity in Congress, similar to its predecessor. This is the version of the game currently available.
Gameplay
In Fantasy Congress, players select members of Congress for their team and acquire points based on activity in the U.S. House and Senate. For example, players can receive points when a legislator on their team sponsors legislation, or participates in a roll call vote. Points are also awarded to members of Congress that frequently appear in the news. The player(s) whose team has the most points at the end of the season wins.
The game star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Declaration%20of%20the%20Independence%20of%20Cyberspace | "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" is a widely distributed early paper on the applicability (or lack thereof) of government to the rapidly growing Internet. Commissioned for the pioneering Internet project 24 Hours in Cyberspace, it was written by John Perry Barlow, a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and published online on February 8, 1996, from Davos, Switzerland. It was written primarily in response to the passing into law of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in the United States. In 2014, the Department of Records recorded and released audio and video content of Barlow reading the Declaration.
Content
The declaration sets out, in sixteen short paragraphs, a rebuttal to government of the Internet by any outside force, specifically the United States. It states that the United States did not have the consent of the governed to apply laws to the Internet, and that the Internet was outside any country's borders. Instead, the Internet was developing its own social contracts to determine how to handle its problems, based on the golden rule. It does this in language evocative of the United States Declaration of Independence and obliquely cites it in its final paragraphs. Although the paper mentions the Telecommunications Act, it also accuses China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, and Italy of stifling the Internet.
Background
At the time the paper was written, Barlow had already written extensively on the Internet and its social and legal phenomena, as well as being a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The work he was known best for previously, "The Economy of Ideas", published March 1994 in Wired magazine, also made allusions to Thomas Jefferson and some of the ideas he would write about in his declaration.
Critical response
Because of its subject matter, Barlow's work quickly became famous and widely distributed on the Internet. Within three months, an estimated 5,000 websites had copies of the declaration. At nine months, that number was estimated to be 40,000. To approach Barlow's vision of a self-governing Internet, a virtual magistrate was set up by the Cyberspace Law Institute, now hosted by the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Magistrates would be appointed by the institute and other legal groups to solve online disputes. The declaration has been criticized for internal inconsistencies. The declaration's assertion that 'cyberspace' is a place removed from the physical world has also been challenged by people who point to the fact that the internet is always linked to its underlying geography.
Outside the Internet, the response was less positive. Larry Irving, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, said that a lack of safeguards would "slow down the growth of what is likely to be a major boon for consumers and business". In the online magazine HotWired, one columnist referred to his document as simply "hogwash".
By 2002 the number of sites copying the declaration was estimated to have drop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCDT | WCDT (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Winchester, Tennessee, United States, the station is currently owned by Alton Tipps and features programming from ABC Radio and Jones Radio Network.
The station is an affiliate of the Tennessee Titans radio network. The current staff includes former owner Tommy Yarbrough, billing/traffic Jeanetta Shields, air talent Karen Shetters, advertising sales Sherry Price, news Jan Tavalin, air talent Al Tipps, sports announcer Greg Roberson, football announcer Al Clark, baseball announcer Stanley Bean, and board operators Ensley McKay, Jeremy Pickett, Destany Shields, Peyton Garner, and Aaron Jones.
References
External links
WCDT Facebook
CDT
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1948
1948 establishments in Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20on%20TBS | The NBA on TBS is an American presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) regular season and playoff game telecasts that aired on the American cable and satellite network TBS. The games were produced by Turner Sports, the sports division of the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner, TBS's corporate parent.
The network obtained rights to air NBA games beginning with the 1984-85 season (replacing the ESPN and USA Network as the NBA's national cable partners) in which TBS shared the NBA television package along with CBS. The 1989-90 season then saw Turner start to split the NBA cable package between TBS and TNT. TBS then lost its portion of the cable package to ESPN prior to the start of the 2002-03 season.
Coverage
Atlanta Hawks
For many years beginning when the station assumed rights to the team's game telecasts in the late 1970s, WTBS (channel 17) in Atlanta – which served as the originating feed of the national TBS cable channel from December 1976 to October 2007 – aired some regular season games from the Atlanta Hawks (which was also owned by Ted Turner at the time), which also aired nationally on WTBS's superstation feed; TBS aired the games nationwide until the telecasts became subjected to NBA blackout restrictions within 35 miles of the home team's arena, resulting in many Hawks away games televised by the network being unavailable to cable providers within the designated market area of the opposing team (this restriction was dropped when TNT gained the right to be the exclusive broadcaster of any game that it chose to carry).
National coverage
When it began to televise games from NBA teams other than the Hawks beginning with the 1984-85 season, TBS maintained a package of approximately 55 regular season NBA games annually on Tuesday and Friday nights. TBS also carried numerous NBA Playoff games as well as the NBA draft from 1985-1989.
Playoff coverage
TBS was also allowed to televise 20 early round conference playoff games beginning with the 1985 NBA playoffs. In 1986, TBS (as well as CBS) did not carry Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, relegating the broadcast of that game to television stations in the team's designated market areas; this would be the last time that an NBA Conference Finals game was not televised on a national network. During the 1989 NBA playoffs, only 13 of the 24 games (comprising Games 1-3 of each series) in the first round aired on TBS or CBS. For example, none of the four games from the Seattle-Houston first round series appeared on national television.
All-Star Weekend
Beginning in 1986, TBS televised the various contests from the NBA All-Star Weekend. In 1987, the slam dunk contest was televised live for the very first time on the network.
Partnership with TNT
In the summer of 1988, the Turner Broadcasting System signed a new joint broadcast contract between TBS and TNT effective with the 1989-90 NBA season; beginning that season, TBS and TNT split broadcast rights to tele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberJudas | CyberJudas is a presidential simulation video game for MS-DOS-compatible computers, and is the sequel to Shadow President. CyberJudas contains many of the same cyberpunk/dark science fiction elements of the original game, but adds themes of espionage and treason.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of the President of the United States of America, and must handle an ongoing timeline of world events by making political decisions and engaging in diplomatic, economic and military interactions with other computer-controlled states. The player is attended by a cabinet of computer-controlled advisors, each with their own area of responsibility, who will offer advice on actions to be taken.
The game features three modes of play. In the Presidential Simulator, the only goal is to remain in power by maintaining sufficient popularity to avoid electoral defeat, impeachment or assassination. If popularity is maintained, the player's term as president can continue beyond the USA's real-life limit of two terms, however terms must be consecutive: being voted out ends the game. In the Presidential Simulator, the player's cabinet work in the player's interest and deliver relatively unbiased advice.
The second mode is Cabinet Wars, in which each member of the player's cabinet has their own political perspective and agenda, and will attempt to manipulate the player's decisions for their own ends.
The final mode, and the source of the game's title, is the CyberJudas Gambit. In this mode, one member of the cabinet is an outright traitor, working directly against the player and the USA. In this mode, the 'CyberJudas' will attempt to create catastrophic situations for which the player will be blamed. As well as successfully managing the day-to-day concerns of the US, the player in this mode must also identify and defeat the CyberJudas.
Reception
Tasos Kaiafas of Computer Game Review opined, "CyberJudas does show its age, which may have a dual effect." He found it technically dated, but argued that its gameplay attains "a level that transcends today's viscerally oriented 3-D worlds."
References
External links
CyberJudas at Home of the Underdogs
1996 video games
Cyberpunk video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Government simulation video games
Merit Studios games
Single-player video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix%20Prize | The Netflix Prize was an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for films, based on previous ratings without any other information about the users or films, i.e. without the users being identified except by numbers assigned for the contest.
The competition was held by Netflix, a video streaming service, and was open to anyone who is neither connected with Netflix (current and former employees, agents, close relatives of Netflix employees, etc.) nor a resident of certain blocked countries (such as Cuba or North Korea). On September 21, 2009, the grand prize of was given to the BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos team which bested Netflix's own algorithm for predicting ratings by 10.06%.
Problem and data sets
Netflix provided a training data set of 100,480,507 ratings that 480,189 users gave to 17,770 movies. Each training rating is a quadruplet of the form <user, movie, date of grade, grade>. The user and movie fields are integer IDs, while grades are from 1 to 5 (integer) stars.
The qualifying data set contains over 2,817,131 triplets of the form <user, movie, date of grade>, with grades known only to the jury. A participating team's algorithm must predict grades on the entire qualifying set, but they are informed of the score for only half of the data: a quiz set of 1,408,342 ratings. The other half is the test set of 1,408,789, and performance on this is used by the jury to determine potential prize winners. Only the judges know which ratings are in the quiz set, and which are in the test set—this arrangement is intended to make it difficult to hill climb on the test set. Submitted predictions are scored against the true grades in the form of root mean squared error (RMSE), and the goal is to reduce this error as much as possible. Note that, while the actual grades are integers in the range 1 to 5, submitted predictions need not be. Netflix also identified a probe subset of 1,408,395 ratings within the training data set. The probe, quiz, and test data sets were chosen to have similar statistical properties.
In summary, the data used in the Netflix Prize looks as follows:
Training set (99,072,112 ratings not including the probe set; 100,480,507 including the probe set)
Probe set (1,408,395 ratings)
Qualifying set (2,817,131 ratings) consisting of:
Test set (1,408,789 ratings), used to determine winners
Quiz set (1,408,342 ratings), used to calculate leaderboard scores
For each movie, the title and year of release are provided in a separate dataset. No information at all is provided about users. In order to protect the privacy of the customers, "some of the rating data for some customers in the training and qualifying sets have been deliberately perturbed in one or more of the following ways: deleting ratings; inserting alternative ratings and dates; and modifying rating dates."
The training set is constructed such that the average user rated over 200 movies, and the average movie was rated by o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatik | Grammatik was the first grammar checking program developed for home computer systems. Aspen Software of Albuquerque, NM, released the earliest version of this diction and style checker for personal computers. It was first released no later than 1981, and was inspired by the Writer's Workbench.
Grammatik was first available for a Radio Shack - TRS-80, and soon had versions for CP/M and the IBM PC. Reference Software International of San Francisco, California, acquired Grammatik in 1985. Development of Grammatik continued, and it became an actual grammar checker that could detect writing errors beyond simple style checking.
Subsequent versions were released for the MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms. Grammatik was ultimately acquired by WordPerfect Corporation and is integrated in the WordPerfect word processor.
References
Natural language processing
1981 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20LaserWriter | The Color LaserWriter was a line of PostScript four-color laser printers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. in the mid-1990s. These printers were compatible with PCs and Apple's own Macintosh line of computers; these printers were also able to connect to large networks by way of the use of an 10baseT Ethernet port. Two models were released.
Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS
A PostScript printer, the Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS color laser printer was intended for small business and consumers with high printing requirements. The Windows-compatible driver was of interest due to its ability generate Postscript files (.ps) for later printing.
This printer was released one year before its replacement with the Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS, which had the same specifications as the 12/600 PS, but was sold at a lower price.
Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS
The Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS is a color laser printer introduced by Apple in October 1996. The printer became a workhorse used in Kinko's copy stores across the United States. The printer's weight, size, speed of printing, and high cost of purchase, operation, and maintenance were its chief drawbacks.
External links
Driver for Windows 95
12/600 Technical Specifications on Apple.com
12/660 Technical Specifications on Apple.com
Laser printers
Apple Inc. printers
Computer-related introductions in 1995
Discontinued Apple Inc. products
Products and services discontinued in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20matroid | In combinatorics, a branch of mathematics, a weighted matroid is a matroid endowed with function with respect to which one can perform a greedy algorithm.
A weight function for a matroid assigns a strictly positive weight to each element of . We extend the function to subsets of by summation; is the sum of over in . A matroid with an associated weight function is called a weighted matroid.
Spanning forest algorithms
As a simple example, say we wish to find the maximum spanning forest of a graph. That is, given a graph and a weight for each edge, find a forest containing every vertex and maximizing the total weight of the edges in the tree. This problem arises in some clustering applications. If we look at the definition of the forest matroid above, we see that the maximum spanning forest is simply the independent set with largest total weight — such a set must span the graph, for otherwise we can add edges without creating cycles. But how do we find it?
Finding a basis
There is a simple algorithm for finding a basis:
Initially let be the empty set.
For each in
if is independent, then set to .
The result is clearly an independent set. It is a maximal independent set because if is not independent for some subset of , then is not independent either (the contrapositive follows from the hereditary property). Thus if we pass up an element, we'll never have an opportunity to use it later. We will generalize this algorithm to solve a harder problem.
Extension to optimal
An independent set of largest total weight is called an optimal set. Optimal sets are always bases, because if an edge can be added, it should be; this only increases the total weight. As it turns out, there is a trivial greedy algorithm for computing an optimal set of a weighted matroid. It works as follows:
Initially let be the empty set.
For each in , taken in (monotonically) decreasing order by weight
if is independent, then set to .
This algorithm finds a basis, since it is a special case of the above algorithm. It always chooses the element of largest weight that it can while preserving independence (thus the term "greedy"). This always produces an optimal set: suppose that it produces and that . Now for any with , consider open sets and . Since is smaller than , there is some element of which can be put into with the result still being independent. However is an element of maximal weight that can be added to to maintain independence. Thus is of no smaller weight than some element of , and hence is of at least a large a weight as . As this is true for all , is weightier than .
Complexity analysis
The easiest way to traverse the members of in the desired order is to sort them. This requires time using a comparison sorting algorithm. We also need to test for each whether is independent; assuming independence tests require time, the total time for the algorithm is .
If we want to find a minimum spanning tree instead, we simply "invert" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervasive | Pervasive may refer to:
Pervasive Computing, human computer interaction paradigm
Pervasive Informatics, study of how information affects human interactions
Pervasive Software, software company in the United States
Pervasive PSQL, software developed by the company
Pervasive games, games that blend with the physical world
Pervasive developmental disorder, group of disorders characterized by delayed development of basic body functions
See also
Pervasiveness (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Rail%20Class%20378 | The British Rail Class 378 Capitalstar is an electric multiple unit passenger train specifically designed for the London Overground network. It is part of Bombardier Transportation's Electrostar family. A total of 57 five-car trains have been built – most of which were originally built as three- or four-car units.
The Class 378s were ordered in August 2006 in response to passenger dissatisfaction with existing mass-transit trains operated by Silverlink, such as the ageing fleet of Class 313. The procurement of a modern replacement was viewed as yielding better performance than the refurbishment of the existing units. Accordingly, a total of 57 Class 378s were manufactured at Bombardier's Derby site, the first example of which entered revenue service during July 2009. The type's introduction was roughly half a year later than originally planned, largely as a result of difficulties with multiple suppliers.
In design terms the train is broadly similar to the Class 376 trains operated by Southeastern, featuring the same wider metro-style sliding pocket doors for more efficient boarding and alighting. However, it also has significant differences from the Class 376, such as fully longitudinal seating similar to that used on London Underground rolling stock to give more standing and less seating capacity and reduce overcrowding, the interior having been optimised for the high-volume metro-style services being operated by London Overground.
History
By the start of the twenty-first century, several types of rolling stock that had originally entered service multiple decades before were in operation across London. In particular, the Silverlink franchise on the North London line was frequently regarded by travellers as having offered a poor service, complaints centering around extremely congested trains and unreliable service. The Class 313 was being used for these services at this time; its interiors were of noticeably lower quality compared to that of newer trains, and the trains themselves were viewed as unwelcoming to passengers, particularly during late hours. Officials at Transport for London (TfL) were motivated to improve the situation and decided on a modern replacement for the Class 313. Accordingly, they began to investigate various options for doing so.
In August 2006 it was announced that a contract worth £223 million had been signed between rolling-stock manufacturer Bombardier and TfL, under which an initial batch of 152 individual cars would be supplied, deliveries of which were to start in September 2008. The original contract contained an option to purchase additional cars, up to a total of 216. Maintenance arrangements were also included, involving the construction of a new depot near New Cross Gate station to perform heavy maintenance tasks upon this new fleet. The new fleet, designated Class 378, was manufactured by Bombardier at its facility in Derby.
In July 2007, TfL announced it had ordered a further 36 Capitalstar carriages f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco%204FDC | The Cromemco 4FDC Floppy Disk Controller is designed to interface both 5.25- and 8.0-inch floppy disk drives to the S-100 computer bus used in Cromemco and other IEEE 696 computers. It also contains an RS-232 serial I/O channel with software-selectable baud rates from 110 to 76,800. In addition, it has a 1 KB resident 2708 ROM containing Cromemco's RDOS, the resident disk operating system.
The 4FDC was designed to drive Persci 277 8-inch single-density floppy drives. These drives were interesting in two respects:
They used a fast voice coil actuator and not a stepper motor to position the drive read write head.
The data separator electronics were on the drive itself.
Due to the second fact, an unmodified 4FDC can not be used with 8-inch drives that don't have single-density data separators on the drive electronics. Later Cromemco disk controllers such as the 16FDC and 64FDC contained both single and double density data separators and the 64FDC also supplied write pre-compensation.
An aftermarket add-on board, the FDCX4 Double Density Upgrade Board for the 4FDC, was designed and marketed by JVB Electronics. The FDCX4 was a daughter board assembly that replaced the WD1771 single density disk controller chip on the 4FDC with a FD1791 (early production) or Fujitsu MB8876A (later production) double-density controller chip. The FDCX4, in addition to using an analog phase-locked-loop data separator in all modes, also used write-precompensation. These features allowed the FDCX4 equipped 4FDC to reliably use the Persci 277 drives, as well as other drives, in double-density mode.
Technical notes
Four switches on the 4FDC interface card are used to set the operation of the card. Switch 1 is the RDOS DISABLE switch. When this switch is ON the 1 KB ROM containing RDOS cannot be accessed by the computer. When this switch is OFF the RDOS program resides in the computer memory space from address 0xC000 to 0xC3FF.
Switch 2 is the RDOS disable after boot switch. If this switch is ON the 1 KB ROM containing RDOS will automatically be disabled after CDOS is bootstrapped in from a disk thus clearing memory space from 0xC000 to 0xC3FF for system use. (In this mode the ROM is actually disabled by an output to port 40H which is done automatically by CDOS). If switch 2 is OFF, RDOS remains in memory space even after CDOS is loaded.
RDOS contains two programs; 1) the CDOS bootstrap program and 2) the console monitor program. Switch 3 is the boot enable switch. When this switch is ON the bootstrap program will execute (thus loading CDOS) without first entering the monitor program. If this switch is off, RDOS begins in the console monitor mode permitting the bootstrap operation or other operations to be performed under console control.
Switch 4 is the initialization inhibit switch. When this switch is ON, diskettes cannot be initialized under software control thus preventing a "runaway" program from unintentionally altering the diskette initialization. This sw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated%20robotics | In artificial intelligence and cognitive science, the term situated refers to an agent which is embedded in an environment. In this used, the term is used to refer to robots, but some researchers argue that software agents can also be situated if:
they exist in a dynamic (rapidly changing) environment, which
they can manipulate or change through their actions, and which
they can sense or perceive.
Being situated is generally considered to be part of being embodied, but it is useful to take both perspectives. The situated perspective emphasizes the environment and the agent's interactions with it. These interactions define an agent's embodiment.
See also
Robot general heading
Cognitive agents
Scruffies - people who tend to worry about whether their agent is situated.
References
Hendriks-Jansen, Horst (1996) Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evolution, and Human Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Robotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footscray%20High%20School | Footscray High School is a multi-campus educational institution in Melbourne, Australia. Footscray College has formed a network with the University of Melbourne which gives students a better chance of getting into the University after they leave high school. The network provides opportunities for the college to enter into a structured program that focuses upon excellence in teaching and learning practice and the improvement of student learning outcomes.
The college also offers the Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL) Program, which provides a focused educational environment for academically gifted children.
The "Footscray City College Film and Television School" makes up the tertiary (TAFE) part of the college.
History
In March 1916, the Footscray Technical School began teaching at what is now Victoria University's Footscray Nicholson campus. In July 1958, the school was renamed "Footscray Technical College" in line with Education Department reforms to technical schools at that time. On 25 September 1968, it was renamed "Footscray Institute of Technology" (FIT).
On 1 July 1972, the secondary education part of the Institute was separated and named "Footscray Secondary Technical School". It continued to operate on the Nicholson St site. However, its council was not established until early 1975, a new site (on Ballarat Rd) was not acquired until 1975 and was not ready for occupation until May 1980. Thus during this period it remained closely linked to the Institute.
The tertiary component is known as "Footscray City Films".
References
External links
Official school website
Public high schools in Melbourne
1916 establishments in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1916 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Catalyst%201900 | The Cisco Catalyst 1900 is a 19" rack mountable, managed (configurable) 10BASE-T Ethernet switch with 100BASE-TX/100BASE-FX uplink ports. This product was popular in small office networks because of its features and price.
This switch was sold until 2002, reaching end of life (EOL) in 2007 and is no longer supported by Cisco.
Models
The switch was available in 12-port and 24-port models with either two 100BASE-TX uplink ports or one fibre and one copper 100 Mbit/s uplink ports. In addition to this, one AUI port was available on the rear panel for connecting to fiber or legacy 10BASE2 or 10BASE5 networks.
This switch is closely related to the Cisco Catalyst 2820 series, which uses the same software, and shares many of the same features
Software
The 1900 series software was available in two editions. Whilst the enterprise edition's command-line interface (CLI) had a strong similarity to IOS, the switches ran a unique software which was neither IOS or CatOS.
Standard Edition - Menu based configuration. No CLI access available. Could be software upgraded to Enterprise Edition.
Enterprise Edition - Same as standard but with extra features enabled. CLI access is possible.
The last software version released was 9.00.07 (2003).
Features
ISL trunking on fast Ethernet ports
VLANS (4 can be configured)
SNMP
Optional web based configuration
IEEE 802.1D Spanning-Tree Protocol support.
Support for 1024 MAC Addresses.
Up to 320-Mbit/s maximum forwarding bandwidth.
Up to 450,000 packets per second aggregate packet-forwarding rate.
Hardware
Processor: Intel 80486
RAM: 2 MB
FLASH: 1 MB
Backplane: 1 Gbit/s
MAC Address table size: 1024
10BaseT ports 12 or 24 Full Duplex
100BASE-TX ports 1 or 2 Full Duplex
100BASE-FX ports 1 (on 1924F) Full Duplex
AUI port
Internal AC power supply
DC connector for external DC power (Cisco RPS)
History
The switch is based on a design purchased from Grand Junction Networks
Original pricing approx US$900 for a WS-1912-C to approx US$1700 for a WS-1924-EN
References
Cisco products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20Bank%20Nigerian%20Government%20Bond%20Index | The Access Bank Nigerian Government Bond Index is a liquid index that was created to ensure that there exists credible data on the Nigerian sovereign bond market which will help the investors and other stakeholders to make informed investment decisions while providing a benchmark for measuring the performance of the rapidly developing local currency bond markets. This is particularly important as the bonds market is becoming redefined from a primarily sovereign fiscal deficit process to a sound investment option.
Index Characteristics
The index was introduced on December 29, 2006, and consists of local currency denominated fixed-rate Federal Government of Nigeria Bonds. In order to qualify for the index, a bond must be publicly issued through the Debt Management Office and traded under the Primary Dealer/Market Maker Trading Guidelines—as these are the liquid bonds that can be readily bought and sold in the secondary market. The selection of the index constituents reflects the FGN Bonds available. In order to ensure transparency of the Index, the pricing data are obtained from all the 21 licensed Primary Dealers/Market Makers in the country. It is therefore easy to replicate the Index in practice as it includes only traded issues. To aid in strategy development and return attribution, the bond indices include a wide array of statistical information that provides valuable comparative information.
Overview of the Nigerian Government Bond Market
The resurgence in the domestic sovereign debt instruments could be traced to 2000 when the Debt Management Office ("DMO") was created with a mandate to centrally coordinate the management of Nigeria's debt, which was hitherto being done by myriad establishments in an uncoordinated fashion. Hitherto, a huge percentage of the Nigeria's domestic debt instruments were structured into Treasury Bills with maturities of 91days and below; creating inconsistencies and irregularities in the federal government's borrowing costs. The DMO, in a bid to restructure the Federal Government of Nigeria’s deficit funding from shorter to longer tenored borrowing instruments, improve and lengthen the yield curve in the domestic money markets, and to encourage long-term savings, introduced the sale of Federal Government of Nigeria ("FGN Bonds") Bonds in October 2003. The FGN Bonds were sold to the investing through all licensed banks and discount houses in the country. However, most of the investors adopted a "hold to maturity" approach and therefore little or no secondary trades were carried out in respect of those Bonds.
In August 2006, a primary dealership/market maker network was established whereby the Primary Dealers/Market Makers ("PDMMs") are the only institutions authorised to deal directly with the DMO in Bond auctions and as such are expected to play an active role in the issuance, sale and marketing of all FGN Bonds to be issued subsequent to their appointment as PDMMs. Apart from underwriting every Bond Issue, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Protocols | Cold Spring Harbor Protocols (formerly CSH Protocols) is an online scientific journal and methods database for biologists, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Protocols are presented step-by-step and edited in the style that has made Molecular Cloning, Antibodies, Cells and many other CSH manuals essential to the work of scientists worldwide. Protocols in the database come from CSH manuals, courses taught at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and newly submitted methods from the scientific community. The journal was launched in June 2006.
See also
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Protocol (natural sciences)
External links
CSH Protocols
CSHL Press Website
Biology journals
Research methods journals
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press academic journals
Academic journals established in 2006
Monthly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Programming%20System | The World Programming System, also known as WPS Analytics or WPS, is a software product developed by a company called World Programming (acquired by Altair Engineering).
WPS Analytics supports users of mixed ability to access and process data and to perform data science tasks. It has interactive visual programming tools using data workflows, and it has coding tools supporting the use of the SAS language mixed with Python, R and SQL.
About
WPS can use programs written in the language of SAS without the need for translating them into any other language. In this regard WPS is compatible with the SAS system. WPS has a built-in language interpreter able to process the language of SAS and produce similar results.
WPS is available to run on z/OS, Windows, macOS, Linux (x86, Armv8 64-bit, IBM Power LE, IBM Z), and AIX.
On all supported platforms, programs written in the language of SAS can be executed from a WPS command line interface, often referred to as running in batch mode.
WPS can also be used from a graphical user interface known as the WPS Workbench for managing, editing and running programs written in the language of SAS. The WPS Workbench user interface is based on Eclipse.
WPS version 4 (released in March 2018) introduced a drag-and-drop workflow canvas providing interactive blocks for data retrieval, blending and preparation, data discovery and profiling, predictive modelling powered by machine learning algorithms, model performance validation and scorecards.
WPS version 3 (released in February 2012) provided a new client/server architecture that allows the WPS Workbench GUI to execute SAS programs on remote server installations of WPS in a network or cloud. The resulting output, data sets, logs, etc., can then all be viewed and manipulated from inside the Workbench as if the workloads had been executed locally. SAS programs do not require any special language statements to use this feature.
Summary of main features
Runs on Windows, macOS, z/OS, Linux (x86, Armv8 64-bit, IBM Power LE, IBM Z), and AIX
An integrated development environment based on Eclipse for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Support for language of SAS elements.
Support for the language of SAS Macros.
Matrix Programming support using PROC IML.
Support for generating band plots, bar charts, box plots, bubble plots, contour plots, dendrogram plots, ellipse plots, fringe plots, heat maps, high-low plots, histograms, loess plots, needle plots, pie charts, penalised b-spline, radar charts, reference lines, scatter plots, series plots, step plots, regression plots and vector plots.
Support for statistical procedures ACECLUS, ASSOCRULES, ANOVA, BIN, BOXPLOT, CANCORR, CANDISC, CLUSTER, CORRESP, DISCRIM, DISTANCE, FACTOR, FASTCLUS, FREQ, GAM, GANNO, GENMOD, GLIMMIX, GLM, GLMMOD, GLMSELECT, ICLIFETEST, KDE, LIFEREG, LIFETEST, LOESS, LOGISTIC, MDS, MEANS, MI, MIANALYSE, MIXED, MODECLUS, NESTED, NLIN, NPAR1WAY, PHREG, PLAN, PLS, POWER, PRINCOMP, PROBIT, QUANTREG, RBF, REG, ROB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Programming | World Programming is a private limited company headquartered in the UK.
They tend to develop and distribute software products concerned with numerical analysis, business intelligence and data distribution.
The company's main software products is the World Programming System (WPS or WPS Analytics). The software was the subject of a lawsuit by SAS Institute. The EU Court of Justice ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used, and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement, when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.
In December 2021, Altair Engineering announced that it would acquire World Programming on 15th December 2021.
References
Software companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame-bursting | Frame-bursting is a communication protocol feature used at the link layer in communication networks to alter the transmission characteristics in order to benefit from higher throughput. It is a technique sometimes used in communication protocols for shared mediums to achieve higher throughput by allowing the transmitter to send a series of frames in succession without relinquishing control of the transmission medium. Related techniques used to achieve the same goal include fast frames wherein the inter-frame wait interval is reduced, and jumbo frames wherein the size of the frame is increased. Frame bursting may also benefit from packet aggregation. Communication protocols for shared mediums are designed to relinquish the medium and wait for a while after the transmission of a MAC layer frame in order to facilitate the fair use of the medium by multiple users. Frame bursting may be permissible in certain scenarios such as when the link is point-to-point or when the signal from other users is indistinguishable from noise. Frame bursting allows for more data packets per time interval at the cost of wait time for other users.
In the case of wireless technology, the draft 802.11e quality of service specification allows frame bursting under some situations. Frame bursting may increase the throughput of any (point-to-point) 802.11a, b, g or n link connection under certain conditions. This is done by reducing the overhead associated with the wireless session in either of the following two modes:
Access point to client and vice versa
Client to client in ad hoc mode
Frame bursting and fast framing allow a wireless client to upload data at higher throughputs by using the inter-frame wait intervals to "burst" a sequence of up to three packets before waiting the required period. This allows more data to be sent with less waiting. However, their use can also result in unbalanced allocation of airtime where there are a mix of clients with and without Frame-Bursting. In such cases, the inter-frame wait periods cause unsupported stations to wait longer for service availability, and to receive less data transfer throughput. Therefore, it is not recommended for more than 2-3 wireless clients to use frame-bursting as the negative effects can adversely affect the throughput for all clients.
Proprietary extensions that have added frame bursting to the wireless standards include Nitro from Intersil, Super G from Atheros, Xpress from Broadcom and Xtreme G from D-Link.
References
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBNH%20%28FM%29 | WBNH (88.5 FM) is a Christian radio station with a license for Pekin, Illinois. WBNH is a primary affiliate of the Moody Broadcasting Network and broadcasts Christian music and talk and programs. It is owned by the Central Illinois Radio Fellowship, and its studio is in Pekin.
Translators
In addition to the main station, WBNH is relayed by an additional translator to widen its broadcast area.
References
External links
WBNH Radio official website
BNH
BNH
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Radio stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%20Data%20Buffer | Command Data Buffer (CDB) was a system used by the United States Air Force's Minuteman ICBM force. CDB was a method to transfer targeting information from a Minuteman Launch Control Center to an individual missile by communications lines. Prior to CDB, new missile guidance would have to be physically loaded at the launch facility; the process usually took hours.
History
The surviving remnant of the Minuteman Command Control System (MICCS), CDB permitted the rapid, remote, retargeting of the Minuteman III fleet. CDB was operational at all Minuteman III wings by 15 Aug 1977. Minuteman II wings had a similar install, designated Improved Launch Control System, providing the older system the potential for remote retargeting.
Phaseout
CDB was replaced in the late 1990s by the Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting system, currently in use by United States ICBM forces.
See also
LGM-30 Minuteman
Launch control center (ICBM)
Improved Launch Control System - Minuteman II upgrade similar to CDB
Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting System (REACT)
References
United States nuclear command and control
Cold War weapons of the United States
Nuclear weapons of the United States
Computer memory
Synchronization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%20Stewart%20%28As%20the%20World%20Turns%29 | Alison Stewart is a fictional character from As the World Turns, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Created by head writers Juliet Law Packer and Richard Backus, and introduced by executive producer Laurence Caso, the character was portrayed by several child actors, including Sarah Hyland. In 2002, the role was rapidly aged when Jessica Dunphy was cast in the role; she remained in the role until her exit in 2005. In 2007, the character briefly crossed over to The Young and the Restless with actress Marnie Schulenburg in the role, who would continue her portrayal on As the World Turns until the series finale in 2010.
For her portrayal of Alison, Schulenburg earned a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2010.
Casting
Upon the character's introduction in 1994, the role was portrayed by several child actors, including Kristi Richuitti and Sarah Hyland. In April 2002, Jessica Dunphy joined the cast in the role. In July 2005, it was announced that she would exit the role; she last appeared on July 20 of the same year. In 2006, Marnie Schulenburg was cast in the role; she made her debut when the character made a crossover appearance on The Young and the Restless on February 22, 2007, and later debuted on As the World Turns the following month. Schulenburg remained with the soap until its final episode on September 17, 2010, becoming the longest-tenured actor in the role.
Storylines
Backstory
Alison was introduced on July 11, 1994, Susan Stewart and her much younger husband, fellow doctor Larry McDermott. Susan carried the baby, which was created with Larry's sperm and an egg donated by Susan's daughter, Emily Stewart.
2002–2005
In 2002, Alison (Dunphy) immediately made her presence known as a bad-girl blonde like her "sister," Emily: mischievous, witty, and willing to use her beauty to manipulate or just for fun. Even so, the character's vulnerability was clearly visible, caused by abandonment issues stemming from her absent father and her experiences growing up as the daughter of an alcoholic (Susan).
Her first-love relationship with Aaron Snyder was a teenage love triangle story, with Alison scheming to break up Aaron's relationship with Lucy Montgomery while pretending to be Lucy's best friend. Aaron and Alison developed a real friendship, which led to love. Alison got involved with Chris Hughes, who was older (in his 20s) and a doctor. The Hughes and Stewart family had a volatile past, with storylines involving Bob and Susan's affair, Tom and Emily's affair (and child), and Kim's marriage to Dan, whom Susan had seduced away from her decades ago. Kim Hughes, in particular, found it nearly impossible to accept Alison into the Hughes family. This situation was eased somewhat by Bob's mother, town matriarch Nancy Hughes, who formed an unlikely friendship with Alison.
After a somewhat painful transition from teenager to adult, including a miscarriage and finding out the truth ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20CMT | The following is a list of programs currently and formerly broadcast on CMT as of May 2023.
Current programs
Original programming
Music
CMT Campfire Sessions (2021)
CMT Crossroads (January 13, 2002)
CMT Defining (2023)
CMT Giants (2006)
CMT Hot 20 Countdown (2013)
CMT Music Awards (2001)
CMT Storytellers
CMT Summer Camp (2022)
CMT Summer Sessions (2023)
Syndicated programming
The Golden Girls (2020–present)
The King of Queens (2020–present)
Last Man Standing (2015–present)
Mike & Molly (2021–present)
Mom (2017; 2019–present)
Reba (2012–present)
Roseanne (2012–present)
Yellowstone (2022–present)
Young Sheldon (2023–present)
Former programming
Original programming
Music
Can You Duet (April 14, 2008 – June 2009)
CMT #1 Music and a Movie
CMT All Access (1998–2001)
CMT Big 4-0 (2001–02)
CMT Cross Country (2006–07)
CMT Dance Ranch (1993–98)
CMT Delivery Room (1994–2001)
CMT Flameworthy (2002–03)
CMT 3rdshift (2002–2004)
CMT Got Me In With the Band (2002–04)
CMT Greatest Hits (2002–04)
CMT Home Blitz (2005)
CMT Homecoming (2004–06)
CMT Inside Fame (2001–11)
CMT Insider (2004–11)
CMT Insider Special Edition (2004–10)
CMT Invitation Only (2007–11)
CMT Made (2011)
CMT Morning (1997–2001)
CMT Most Shocking (2003–05)
CMT Most Wanted Live (2001–04)
CMT Music
CMT Outlaws (2004–05)
CMT Power Picks (2006–10)
CMT Prime! (2002)
CMT Pure Country Preview (2006)
CMT Showcase (1994–2001)
CMT Signature Series (1994–2002)
CMT Stone Country (1997–2001)
CMT Top 12 Countdown (1994–2001)
CMT's Next Superstar (2011)
CMT's Southern Fried Flicks With Hazel Smith
Top 20 Countdown (January 3, 2001 – November 30, 2012)
Reality/Lifestyle
Bachelorette Weekend (August 2, 2018 – October 6, 2018)
Chainsaw Gang (November 10, 2012 – December 31, 2016)
CMT Comedy Stage (2007)
Cowboy U (August 29, 2003 – 2007)
Country Fried Home Videos (2006–2009)
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team (September 29, 2006 – November 27, 2021)
Dog and Beth: On the Hunt (April 21, 2013 – August 22, 2015)
The Dude Perfect Show (2016)
The Ed Bassmaster Show (2015–16)
Guntucky (April 21, 2013 – April 26, 2014)
I Love Kellie Pickler (November 6, 2015 – October 6, 2017)
I Want to Look Like a High School Cheerleader Again
The Josh Wolf Show (June 11, 2015 – 2016)
Melissa & Tye (April 20, 2012 – June 8, 2012)
Music City (March 1, 2018 – January 31, 2019)
My Big Redneck Wedding (January 11, 2008 – March 18, 2011)
My Dysfunctional Family (2014)
Nanny 911 (2009)
Nashville Squares (November 1, 2019 – November 29, 2019)
Party Down South (January 16, 2014 – April 14, 2016)
Party Down South 2 (2014–15)
Racing Wives (August 2, 2019 – September 20, 2019)
Redneck Island (June 9, 2012)
Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge (July 6, 2014)
Tattoo Titans (2014)
World's Strictest Parents (2009–2010)
Scripted
Bounty Hunters (2013)
Nashville (2016–2018)
Still the King (2016–2017)
Sun Records (2017)
Working Class (2011)
Acquired programming
1883 (2021) (Special presentation, simulcast with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement%20control%20protein | Complement control protein are proteins that interact with components of the complement system.
The complement system is tightly regulated by a network of proteins known as "regulators of complement activation (RCA)" that help distinguish target cells as "self" or "non-self." A subset of this family of proteins, complement control proteins (CCP), are characterized by domains of conserved repeats that direct interaction with components of the complement system. These "Sushi" domains have been used to identify other putative members of the CCP family. There are many other RCA proteins that do not fall into this family.
Most CCPs prevent activation of the complement system on the surface of host cells and protect host tissues against damage caused by autoimmunity. Because of this, these proteins play important roles in autoimmune disorders and cancers.
Members
Most of the well-studied proteins within this family can be categorized in two classes:
Membrane-bound complement regulators
Membrane Cofactor Protein, MCP (CD46)
Decay Accelerating Factor, DAF (CD55)
Protectin (CD59)
Complement C3b/C4b Receptor 1, CR1 (CD35)
Complement Regulator of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily, CRIg
Soluble complement regulators
Factor H
C4-Binding Protein (C4bp)
Other proteins with characteristic CCP domains have been identified including members of the sushi domain containing (SUSD) protein family and Human CUB and sushi multiple domains family (CSMD).
Mechanisms of protection
Every cell in the human body is protected by one or more of the membrane-associated RCA proteins, CR1, DAF or MCP. Factor H and C4BP circulate in the plasma and are recruited to self-surfaces through binding to host-specific polysaccharides such as the glycosaminoglycans.
Most CCPs function by preventing convertase activity. Convertases, specifically the C3 convertases C3b.Bb and C4b.2a, are the enzymes that drive complement activation by activating C3b, a central component of the complement system. Some CCPs, such as CD46, recruit other RCAs to proteolytically inactivate developing convertases. CD55 and other CCPs promote the rapid dissociation of active enzymes. Other CCPs prevent the activity of terminal effectors of the complement system, CD59 for example blocks oligomerization of the complement peptide C9 stalling the formation of the Membrane Attack Complex (MAC).
For example, C3b.Bb is an important convertase that is part of the alternative pathway, and it is formed when factor B binds C3b and is subsequently cleaved. To prevent this from happening, factor H competes with factor B to bind C3b; if it manages to bind, then the convertase is not formed. Factor H can bind C3b much more easily in the presence of sialic acid, which is a component of most cells in the human body; conversely, in the absence of sialic acid, factor B can bind C3b more easily. This means that if C3b is bound to a "self" cell, the presence of sialic acid and the binding of factor H will prevent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jakobsen | Thomas Jakobsen is a mathematician, cryptographer, and computer programmer, formerly an
assistant professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and head of research and
development at IO Interactive. His notable work includes designing the physics engine and 3-D pathfinder algorithms for Hitman: Codename 47, and the cryptanalysis of a number of block ciphers.
Jakobsen earned an M.Sc. in engineering and Ph.D. in mathematics, both from DTU.
External links
Living people
Modern cryptographers
Danish mathematicians
Video game programmers
Danish computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate%20%28software%29 | Terminate (terminat.exe) was a shareware modem terminal and host program for MS-DOS and compatible operating systems, developed during the 1990s by Bo Bendtsen from Denmark.
The latest release (5.00) arrived in 1997, and the first release arrived on 2 April 1992 (according to the WHATSNEW.500 text file included with version 5.00).
Compared to similar programs of its time, Terminate had a large number of built-in features like: a powerful phone book with long distance calling cost calculation, Fido Mailer, QWK offline mail reader, file manager, text editor, keyboard mapping, ISDN support , fax and voice-call features, chat, IEMSI, VGA mode detection, audio CD player, and a REXX-like scripting language.
Supported terminal emulation modes included ASCII, Avatar, ANSI, RIP, VT102, and others. A number of file transfer protocols like Zmodem were built into the application, along with support for external protocols like HS/Link and BiModem. The built-in support for advanced file transfer protocols made Terminate very popular at the time.
The installation program could import the phone book and settings from other applications like: Telix, RemoteAccess, FrontDoor, BinkleyTerm, Portal of Power, as well as (indirectly) Minicom and Commo.
External links
Official Web-site (archived 1998-06-27)
Terminate - the final terminal - a June 1995 article from the PC Update Magazine
Terminal emulators
DOS software
Bulletin board system software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisa%20Nyberg | Kaisa Nyberg is a Finnish cryptographer and computer security researcher.
Contributions
Nyberg's research includes the theory of perfect nonlinear S-boxes (now known as Nyberg S-boxes), provably secure block cipher design (resulting in KN-Cipher, and the cryptanalysis of the stream ciphers E0 and SNOW.
Education and career
Nyberg received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1980 from the University of Helsinki. Her dissertation, On Subspaces of Products of Nuclear Fréchet Spaces, was in topology, and was supervised by Edward Leonard Dubinsky.
Nyberg began doing cryptography research for the Finnish Defence Forces in 1987, and moved to Nokia in 1998. She became professor of cryptology at Aalto University School of Science in 2005, and retired as a professor emerita in 2016.
Selected publications
References
External links
Kaisa Nyberg's page at TKK
Living people
Modern cryptographers
Computer security academics
Finnish mathematicians
Women mathematicians
1948 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowe%20Global | Crowe Global, commonly referred to as Crowe, previously Crowe Horwath International, is a multinational professional services network. It is the 8th largest global accounting network in the world by revenue. The network consists of more than 220 firms with over 40,000 employees in 130 countries.
Crowe provides audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk and financial advisory services. In FY 2018, the network earned a record US$4.3 billion in aggregate revenues.
History
In 1915, Hungarian immigrants Ernest and Edmund Horwath founded Horwath & Horwath in New York. The original practice focused on the hospitality industry. The practice later expanded to include accounting, audit and tax offerings. In 1967, it merged with Laventhol Krekstein Griffith & Co. to become Laventhol & Horwath.
Crowe Chizek was established in 1942 in South Bend, Indiana, by Fred P. Crowe Sr. and Cletus F. Chizek. Previously, Crowe had worked in public accounting for many years and also served as the St. Joseph County auditor for eight years. Chizek was head of the accounting department at the University of Notre Dame and also worked part-time in public accounting. Following the death of Fred P. Crowe Sr. in 1952, Cletus F. Chizek reorganized the firm as Crowe, Chizek and Company and two firm personnel, M. Mendel Piser and Fred P. Crowe Jr., became partners. The first legal partnership of Crowe Chizek and Company was formulated in 1962 with six founding partners: Cletus F. Chizek, M. Mendel Piser, Fred P. Crowe Jr., Robert W. Green, Joseph A. Bauters and John J. Pairitz.
By 1960, the umbrella organization Horwath & Horwath International Associates (HHIA) was established.
In 1989, the organization shortened its name to Horwath International and in 1991 Crowe Chizek became a member of the network.
Horwath International rebranded in April 2009, as Crowe Horwath International and in June 2018, Crowe Horwath sees a further evolution of their brand with a move to the network name 'Crowe' across their independent member firms globally.
Organization
Kamel Abouchacra, is the CEO of Crowe Global.
See also
Accounting networks and associations
Big Four accounting firms
Professional services
Financial audit
Tax advisor
References
Further reading
1915 establishments in New York City
1915 establishments in the United States
Accounting firms of the United States
Companies based in New York City
Consulting firms established in 1915
International management consulting firms
Management consulting firms of the United Kingdom
Management consulting firms of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danggogae%20station | Danggogae Station is a station on Line 4 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway network. It was the northern terminus of Line 4, until 19 March 2022, when the line was extended to Jinjeop. It is an elevated station. The name of the subway station comes from its local name. Regional names refer to the pass that travelers carried over because of wild animals.
It is a three-story elevated station. The turnstile and station office are located on the second floor above ground, and the platform is located on the third floor above ground. There is a crossing line before entering this station. In the past, it was possible to cross the platform on the other side, but now the freight areas on both platforms are separated, so you cannot travel without going through the opening. There are five exits.
This station is located in Sanggye-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul.
Station layout
Gallery
References
Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Metro stations in Nowon District
Railway stations opened in 1993
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Symes | Robin Symes (born February 1939) is a now-disgraced British antiquities dealer who was unmasked as a key player in an international criminal network that traded in looted archaeological treasures. Symes and his long-term partner Christo Michaelides met and formed a business partnership in the 1970s, and Symes became one of Britain's most prominent and successful antiquities dealers. However, after Michaelides died accidentally in 1999, his family took legal action to recover his share of the Symes company's assets, and when the matter went to trial, Symes was found to have lied in his evidence about the extent and value of his property; he was subsequently charged with and convicted of contempt of court, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, of which he served seven months. Further investigations by Italian authorities revealed in January 2016 that Symes's involvement in the illegal antiquities trade had been even more extensive than previously thought, and that he had hidden a vast hoard of looted antiquities in 45 crates at the Geneva Freeport storage warehouse in Switzerland for 15 years to conceal them from Michaelides's family.
Career
Called "London’s best-known and most successful dealer in antiquities", Symes is also accused of playing a pivotal role in the illegal trade of looted antiquities, which is detailed in Peter Watson and Cecilia Todeschini's 2006 book The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums. According to the accusations brought against Symes, he was the main dealer in Giacomo Medici's operation, selling looted antiquities from Robert E. Hecht and Medici to many renowned Western museums. One of the main museums involved was the J. Paul Getty Museum, whose curator Marion True was later indicted for illegal trafficking of antiquities. She had been a student of Dietrich von Bothmer, curator of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The Metropolitan acquired the Euphronios Krater, which was returned to Italy in February 2006.
Downfall
Symes's downfall was the result of a conflict with the family of his late partner Christo Michaelides, son and heir to the Papadimitriou shipping family. After Michaelides died from injuries sustained in an accidental fall while on holiday in 1999, a conflict arose over the assets of the partnership. Incensed by Symes's dismissive attitude, his refusal to return valuable personal effects, his repeated denials (later proven to be false) that the Papadimitriou family had any involvement in the partnership, and his assertion that all Christo's assets were his by right of inheritance, the Papadimitriou family determined to pursue the matter at any cost.
Christo's nephew Dimitri Papadimitriou coordinated a massive effort to bring Symes to justice, spending a reported US$16 million on private investigators and legal fees in order to prove his legal claim to half of the Robin Symes Limited assets, a legal case Papadimitrio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Gibilisco | Stanley Gibilisco (1955 - 3 May 2020) was a nonfiction writer. He authored books in the fields of electronics, general science, mathematics, and computing.
Biography
Gibilisco began his career in 1977 as a radio technician and editorial assistant at the headquarters of the American Radio Relay League in Newington, Connecticut. Later he worked as a radio-frequency design engineer and technical writer for industry.
In 1982, Stan began writing for TAB Books with editorial offices in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. One of the books that he compiled for TAB, the Encyclopedia of Electronics, was named by the American Library Association (ALA) in its list of "Best References of the 1980s." Another of his books, the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Personal Computing, was named as a "Best Reference of 1996" by the ALA.
Stan produced instructional, technical, and general interest videos on YouTube. Subjects include electronics, computers, physics, mathematics, alternative energy, and amateur radio.
Stan lived in Lead, South Dakota, home of the Sanford Underground Research Facility. He was an active amateur radio operator and used the call sign W1GV. He died on 3 May 2020 in Lead, SD.
External links
Official website
Stan's YouTube channel
American textbook writers
Living people
People from Lead, South Dakota
Amateur radio people
1955 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Kennedy%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Ken Kennedy (August 12, 1945 – February 7, 2007) was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department.
Kennedy directed the construction of several substantial software systems for programming parallel computers, including an automatic vectorizer for Fortran 77, an integrated scientific programming environment, compilers for Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran, and a compilation system for domain languages based on the numerical computing environment MATLAB.
He wrote over 200 articles and book chapters, plus numerous conference addresses. Kennedy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990. He was named a Fellow of the AAAS in 1994 and of the ACM and IEEE in 1995. In recognition of his achievements in compilation for high performance computer systems, he was honored as the recipient of the 1995 W. W. McDowell Award, the highest research award of the IEEE Computer Society. From 1997 to 1999, he served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). In 1999, he was named recipient of the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award, the third time this award was given. In 2005, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kennedy died of pancreatic cancer in Houston at the age of 61. At the time of his death he was the John and Ann Doerr University Professor in the department of Computer Science at Rice and the Director of the Center for High Performance Software Research (HiPerSoft). As of November 20, 2006, he had directed the PhD dissertations of 38 graduate students and masters theses for 8 students.
Kennedy's last publication was The rise and fall of High Performance Fortran: an historical object lesson, in which Kennedy discussed the general failure of the High Performance Fortran language which he had championed.
On November 18, 2009, the ACM and
IEEE
awarded the first Ken Kennedy CS Award
to Francine Berman of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The award was given at the ACM IEEE Supercomputing (or, "SC") '09 conference.
Bibliography
Allen, Randy; Kennedy, Ken (2002). Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. .
References
External links
Ken Kennedy's homepage – at Rice University's Computer Science Department
List of McDowell Award recipients
1945 births
2007 deaths
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
New York University alumni
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Deaths from cancer in Texas
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Rice University faculty
Rice University alumni
Researchers in distributed computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRM |
Business
Partner relationship management, in IT
Person with reduced mobility, in transport
Professional Risk Manager, a certification
Computer science
Probabilistic relational model
Probabilistic roadmap in robotics
Government and politics
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, of US State Department
Partido de la Revolución Mexicana (Party of the Mexican Revolution), later Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI)
Partido Revolucionario Moderno (Modern Revolutionary Party), Dominican Republic
Partidul România Mare or Greater Romania Party, ultra-nationalist party
Parti de Regroupement Mauritanien or Mauritanian Regroupment Party, a former party
Parti Rakyat Malaysia, party in Malaysia
Partido Republicano Mineiro or Mineiro Republican Party, Brazilian party 1888-1937
Partido Revolucionário de Moçambique or Revolutionary Party of Mozambique, Mozambican rebel group 1974/76–1982
People's Revolutionary Militia, former Grenada militia
An alternative name for Al-Shabaab (militant group)
Presidential Review Memorandum, US national security directives during Carter presidency
Technology
Parallel reaction monitoring in mass spectrometry
Precision runway monitor, Raytheon radar system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn%20Crawford | Lynn Crawford (born July 18, 1964) is a Canadian chef and television personality. She is known for her appearances on the Food Network show Restaurant Makeover, which is seen in over 16 countries worldwide.
Biography
Lynn Crawford was born July 18, 1964, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She trained at George Brown College in Toronto. She apprenticed under Alice Waters.
She was formerly the executive chef at the Four Seasons in Toronto and the former executive chef of the Four Seasons in New York.
From 2010 until 2021, she co-founded and co-owned, alongside Lora Kirk, the table d’hôte restaurant Ruby Watchco in Toronto.
Television appearances
She appeared on the Food Network's Iron Chef America (the third chef from Canada to do so), in a battle with Iron Chef Bobby Flay. The episode first aired on March 7, 2007, with peanut as the theme ingredient. Crawford lost the battle to Chef Flay.
In 2010, Crawford debuted a Food Network Canada series entitled Pitchin' In, in which she goes out to take on the challenge of getting the freshest and best ingredients. In the same year she launched Ruby Watchco, a table d'hôte restaurant, in Toronto's Riverside neighbourhood. In 2010, she was nominated for a Gemini Award in the Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information, or Performing Arts Program or Series category for the Pitchin' In shrimp episode. In 2014, Crawford was nominated for Canadian Screen Award in the category of Lifestyle Program or Series for Pitchin In.
In 2013, Crawford was a contestant on Top Chef Masters, along with her spouse Lora Kirk. Crawford and Kirk published the cookbook Hearth & Home: Cook, Share and Celebrate Family Style in 2021.
In 2018, Crawford was the Iron Chef for the debut of Iron Chef Canada, a Food Network Canada series. She is one of five Iron Chefs in the series, along with Hugh Acheson, Amanda Cohen, Rob Feenie and Susur Lee.
Personal life
Crawford is a lesbian. She has many tattoos and likes motorcycles.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Food Network profile
Ruby Watchco (copy archived May 5, 2020)
1964 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Toronto
Canadian television chefs
Participants in Canadian reality television series
Canadian restaurateurs
Women restaurateurs
George Brown College alumni
Canadian cookbook writers
Writers from Toronto
Women chefs
Canadian lesbian writers
21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Canadian LGBT broadcasters
Canadian women chefs
LGBT chefs
Chefs from Toronto
21st-century Canadian LGBT people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Masur | Andy Masur (born May 10, 1967) is an American sportscaster who was formerly the radio play-by-play announcer for the Chicago White Sox Radio Network for WGN (720).
Masur is a native of Glenview, Illinois, a graduate from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois and Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois.
Masur started his radio career in Peoria, Illinois working at co-owned stations WMBD and WKZW (now WPBG). In Chicago, he worked for Metro Networks from 1995 to 1997, reporting traffic, news and sports for several Chicago stations, including WBBM (780), WMAQ (670), WGN Radio, and WTMX (101.9). He was then a sports anchor and reporter at One On One Sports Radio Network (later Sporting News Radio) from 1997 to 1999. Starting in 1999, Masur began to work exclusively for WGN, hosting Chicago Cubs pre-game and post-game shows and anchoring morning and evening drive slots with sports coverage; in addition, he substituted for play-by-play announcer Pat Hughes during some Cubs games. Masur was also the radio voice of Loyola University Chicago men's basketball from 2002 until working at XEPRS-AM.
In 2007, Masur ended his job in Chicago and joined XEPRS-AM (1090 in Tijuana) in the San Diego radio market; there, he has done play-by-play for the San Diego Padres and for University of San Diego Toreros men's basketball. In 2012, he was also named as secondary play-by-play announcer for Padres telecasts on Fox Sports San Diego, occasionally substituting for lead TV announcer Dick Enberg in addition to working the XEPRS radio broadcasts.
Masur returned to Chicago in 2018 and became pre-game host of the Chicago White Sox Radio Network for WGN. He was also a backup play-by-play announcer for two years. On June 30, 2020, Masur was confirmed as the team's new play-by-play announcer, joining Darrin Jackson in the radio booth three months after the unexpected death of Masur's predecessor, Ed Farmer. WGN chose not to renew the rights for the White Sox after the 2020 season, and new rightsholder WMVP hired Cubs television voice Len Kasper to take over the team's play-by-play duties.
References
1967 births
Living people
American radio sports announcers
Bradley University alumni
Chicago Cubs announcers
Chicago White Sox announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Major League Baseball broadcasters
People from Glenview, Illinois
San Diego Padres announcers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic%20board | In electronic systems a diagnostic board is a specialized device with diagnostic circuitry on a printed circuit board that connects to a computer or other electronic equipment replacing an existing module, or plugging into an expansion card slot.
A multi-board electronic system such as a computer comprises multiple printed circuit boards or cards connected via connectors. When a fault occurs in the system, it is sometimes possible to isolate or identify the fault by replacing one of the boards with a diagnostic board. A diagnostic board can range from extremely simple to extremely sophisticated.
Simple standard diagnostic plug-in boards for computers are available that display numeric codes to assist in identifying issues detected during the power-on self-test executed automatically during system startup.
Dummy board
A dummy board provides a minimal interface. This type of diagnostic board in intended to confirm that the interface is correctly implemented. For example, a PC motherboard manufacturer can test PCI functionality of a PC motherboard by connecting a dummy PCI board into each PCI slot on the motherboard
Extender board
An extender board (or board extender, card extender, extender card) is a simple circuit board that interposes between a card cage backplane and the circuit board of interest to physically 'extend' the circuit board of interest out from the card cage allowing access to both sides of the circuit board to connect diagnostic equipment such as an oscilloscope or systems analyzer. For example, a PCI extender board can be plugged into a PCI slot on a computer motherboard, and then a PCI card connected to the extender board to 'extend' the board into free space for access. This approach was common in the 1970s and 1980s particularly on S-100 bus systems.
The concept can become unworkable when signal timing is affected by the length of the signal paths on the diagnostic board, as well as introducing Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) into the circuit under test because of a lack of adequate shielding.
The use of extender boards is declining because of the wider use of multilayer flexible circuit boards and overall cheaper components, particularly in the consumer end of the electronics market.
Sources
Vector Electronics & Technology in North Hollywood Calif. is one of the few companies still making these legacy boards.
Electronic engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s%20Gold%20%28TV%20programme%29 | Sharpe's Gold is a 1995 British television drama, the sixth of a series screened on the ITV network that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. The drama has almost nothing in common with the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell. Scriptwriter Nigel Kneale explained, "I didn't use much of [the book]. I used the first ten pages, I think. Then I had an idea which would be more fun to do. It was all about magic by the time I was through with it."
Plot summary
It is summer 1813. Lord Wellington (Hugh Fraser) is preparing to invade France from Spain after winning the campaign on the Iberian peninsula.
Meanwhile, Major Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean) gets into serious trouble when he tries unsuccessfully to save one of his riflemen, Skillicorn (Philip Dowd), from being executed by the zealous Lieutenant Ayres (Ian Shaw) for stealing a chicken. To maintain discipline in his army, Wellington makes Sharpe apologise to Ayres.
Bess Nugent (Rosaleen Linehan) and her daughter Ellie (Jayne Ashbourne), arrive unannounced from Ireland to visit their cousin, Wellington. They are there to search for Bess's husband, Will (Peter Eyre). Wellington refuses to assist their foolhardy mission, demanding they go home. Sharpe and Ellie find themselves attracted to each other, and they engage in a friendly shooting match at 100 yards. Several of the officers and men place bets on the contest; surprisingly Sharpe only narrowly prevails.
Wellington assigns Sharpe the task of handing over 50 rifles in exchange for some British deserters caught by a feared Spanish guerrilla leader named El Casco (Abel Folk). The Provost Marshal insists that some of his men go along, so Sharpe is saddled with Ayres. Later, the two ladies catch up to Sharpe's detachment, forcing him to take them along for their protection. On the way, they repel an attack by French cavalry led by Lieutenant Barbier (Julian Sims). Ellie becomes distraught after having to shoot and kill a young Frenchman. When Sharpe tries to comfort her away from the others, they embrace.
The trade goes as planned. However, Ellie then discovers that one of the deserters has her father's pipe. When Sharpe refuses to begin a search, the Nugents ride off, forcing Sharpe to go after them. The riflemen spot Barbier's detachment and drive them off with a surprise attack.
The ladies encounter El Casco's men; Bess is killed and Ellie taken captive. When she is taken to El Casco's cave lair, she finds her father, though he has become deranged. Sharpe tracks them down with the help of Barbier, whose men were captured and had their hearts cut out while still alive by the partisans (who believe they are descendants of shipwrecked Aztecs). Sharpe attacks the Spaniards and rescues Ellie and her father. El Casco kills Ayres and wounds Sharpe, but is killed by Sergeant Harper (Daragh O'Malley). Back at camp, Will recovers his senses and thanks Sharpe.
Cast
Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe
Daragh O' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20McAllester | David A. McAllester (born May 30, 1956) is an American computer scientist who is Professor and former chief academic officer at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978, 1979 and 1987 respectively. His PhD was supervised by Gerald Sussman. He was on the faculty of Cornell University for the academic year 1987-1988 and on the faculty of MIT from 1988 to 1995. He was a member of technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research from 1995 to 2002. He has been a fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence since 1997. He has written over 100 refereed publications.
McAllester's research areas include machine learning theory, the theory of programming languages, automated reasoning, AI planning, computer game playing (computer chess) and computational linguistics. A 1991 paper on AI planning proved to be one of the most influential papers of the decade in that area. A 1993 paper on computer game algorithms influenced the design of the algorithms used in the Deep Blue chess system that defeated Garry Kasparov. A 1998 paper on machine learning theory introduced PAC-Bayesian theorems which combine Bayesian and non-Bayesian methods.
Opinions on artificial intelligence
McAllester has voiced concerns about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, writing in an article to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that it is inevitable that fully automated intelligent machines will be able to design and build smarter, better versions of themselves, an event known as the singularity. The singularity would enable machines to become infinitely intelligent, and would pose an "incredibly dangerous scenario". McAllester estimates a 10 percent probability of the Singularity occurring within 25 years, and a 90 percent probability of it occurring within 75 years. He appeared on the AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-Term AI Futures in 2009:, and considers the dangers of superintelligent AI worth taking seriously: He was later described as discussing the singularity at the panel in terms of two major milestones in artificial intelligence:
McAllester has also written on friendly artificial intelligence on his blog. He says that before machines become capable of programming themselves (potentially leading to the singularity), there should be a period where they are moderately intelligent in which it should be possible to test out giving them a purpose or mission that should render them safe to humans:
References
External links
David McAllester's academic page at TTIC.
Machine Thoughts, David McAllester's personal blog.
David Allen McAllester at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Artificial intelligence researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago faculty
Living people
1956 births
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20file%20system | In computing, "a hierarchical file system is a file system that uses directories to organize files into a tree structure."
In a hierarchical file system, directories contain information about both files and other directories, called subdirectories which, in turn, can point to other subdirectories, and so on. This is organized as a tree structure, or hierarchy, generally portrayed with the root at the top. The root directory is the base of the hierarchy, and is usually stored at some fixed location on disk.
A hierarchical file system contrasts with a flat file system, where information about all files is stored in a single directory, and there are no subdirectories.
Almost all file systems today are hierarchical. What is referred to as a file system is a specific instance of a hierarchical system. For example, NTFS, HPFS, and ext4, all implement a hierarchical system with different features for buffering, file allocation, and file recovery.
Concepts
Path
"A file path describes the location of a file in a web site's folder [directory] structure." That is, it represents the directory nodes visited from the root directory to the file as a list of node names, with the items in the list separated by path separators. The path separator is > on Multics, / on Unix-like systems, and \ on MS-DOS 2.0 and later, Windows, and OS/2 systems.
An absolute path begins at the root directory; that is, begins with a path separator character, which, at the beginning of a path, represents the root directory. A path consisting only of a path separator character refers to the root directory.
Working directory
The working directory of a process is a directory dynamically associated with each process. Files are searched relative to the working directory, rather than from the root directory. At logon, the user's working directory is set to their home directory; it can be set afterwards by using a command.
A relative path represents the directory nodes visited from the working directory to the file, rather than from the root directory to the file. A relative path does not begin with a path separator character.
History
Multics
Multics is the first operating system to provide a hierarchical file system.
IBM OS/360
OS/360 has had a hierarchical system since its earliest days.
The system catalog is layered on top of a flat file system, where a disk file's "directory entry" is stored in each volume's Volume Table of Contents (VTOC), and files can be referenced either thru the catalog or by specifying the volume serial number directly. Specifying a dataset name without specifying a serial number in JCL implies a catalog search. The catalog stores only a pointer to the volume.
The OS/360 catalog has a number of differences from other hierarchical file systems. The "root directory", a dataset named SYSCTLG, may contain file pointers or links to subdirectories called CVOLS. The path separator is .. All paths are absolute paths, a leading . is always assumed and cannot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOYZ | NOYZ was an American television network owned and operated by Seattle-based Blue Frog Media. Blue Frog also established BULLA, a Hispanic music channel similar to NOYZ. BULLA was discontinued in December 2007 due to budget and staffing cuts.
History
Founding by Blue Frog Media
NOYZ was an American television network owned and operated by Seattle-based Blue Frog Media.
Blue Frog Media was a Seattle mobile media and entertainment company co-founded by Ron Erickson. Originally called Blue Frog Mobile, it sold ringtones, wallpaper images, and games to cell-phone users. Erickson was chairman and CEO of the company until 2007.
In addition to NOYZ, Blue Frog also established BULLA, a Hispanic music channel similar to NOYZ. BULLA was discontinued in December 2007 due to budget and staffing cuts.
Start of NOYZ
In 2006 Blue Frog became best known for founding NOYZ, a television network that aired mostly pop and hip hop music videos, where members could send text messages to be placed on the air. The videos featured a continuing interactive chat on the bottom third of the screen, where members could talk using text messages transmitted to the network to be placed on air. Each message cost 99¢, and had to be broadcast-safe to be featured on-air.
Discontinuation
The network aired beginning in 2007 overnights on the men's digital cable network MAVTV, but as of January 10, 2008 that network discontinued airing it, suggesting NOYZ went off-the-air. Shortly after, the network's website was taken offline and would lead to a domain parking page. Blue Frog Media had burned through $16 million of venture capital funding over three years and was unable to raise any more money, and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on February 1, 2008, with $1 million in liabilities from service providers, television stations and other creditors . Blue Frog had planned further expansion before their bankruptcy in 2008, using the funds from the shutdown of BULLA to establish Noyz Country (a country-oriented channel), and UR Noyz, which would focus on Christian music.
See also
The Box - former over-the-air music network similar to NOYZ, later evolved into MTV2
MTV2 - available in some areas over-the-air
Mas Musica - former over-the-air music network, evolved into MTV Tr3s
MTV Tr3s - available in some areas over the air
References
Music video networks in the United States
Mobile phone culture
Defunct companies based in Seattle
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Music%20File | The Creative Music File (CMF) is a synthesised music file format, similar to MIDI, designed by Creative Labs for use with their Sound Blaster cards. The format actually stores its song data in MIDI format but it differs in that while General MIDI instruments are standardised, CMF instruments' data are stored in the file itself, much like MOD files. This allows a large range of instruments to be used, and unlike MIDI the song should sound the same regardless of which synthesiser it is played through. While MOD files store their instruments as digital data ("samples"), CMF instruments are stored as a set of register values that can be programmed into the OPL chips that were part of all early Sound Blaster cards (a feature that made them compatible with competing Adlib cards at the time.)
Because CMF music is played through these OPL chips, it has a distinctly synthesised sound. However, in the early 1990s when the format first came out this allowed songs to be synthesised entirely in hardware, meaning the performance impact of using CMF music was very low. For this reason the music in a number of games from this era (such as Kiloblaster and Jill of the Jungle) was in CMF format.
Technical specifications
The CMF format uses the filename extension. Files can be identified by the file signature in the first four bytes, which will be the ASCII characters "CTMF" (Creative Technology Music File) if the file is in CMF format.
The instruments inside a CMF file are stored in an identical manner to that used in SBI files (Sound Blaster Instrument), minus the SBI header. The music block is in standard MIDI format, allowing for easy conversion between .mid and .cmf files. The CMF format also assigned a new meaning to a handful of MIDI controllers, so they could be used to change different aspects of playback (such as switching between the OPL's 9-channel FM synthesis mode and its alternate 6-channel + 5-percussion "rhythm mode" synthesis).
External links
The CMF format article on the Game Modding Wiki has a detailed description of the CMF file format.
The CMF article at the Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki provides some further links to tools to play, convert (to and from), edit, and extract CMF files, and a list of game titles that employed the format.
Video game music file formats
Music notation file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimm | Jimm is an alternative open-source instant messaging client for the ICQ network. It is written in Java ME and should work in most of mobile devices that follow MIDP specification.
Jimm is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
History
Creator of Jimm is Manuel Linsmayer. In 2003 he released a client Mobicq. The client allows to view a list of contacts and exchange messages on a protocol OSCAR (ICQ v8).
In 2004 AOL banned the use of the name "Mobicq" because it contains a part belonging to company trademark "ICQ". At that time, client was able to display status, display information about user, play sounds and display messages in the chat. It was decided to rename Mobicq to Jimm. The name "Jimm" means "Java Instant Mobile Messenger".
Jimm development team
Manuel Linsmayer (founder of the Jimm project)
Andreas "Rossi" Rossbacher
Denis "ArtDen" Artemov
Ivan "Rad1st" Mikitevich
External links
Jimm Website
2004 software
Free instant messaging clients
Free software programmed in Java (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina%27s%20Laughing%20Gear | Gina's Laughing Gear was a special programming slot which was presented by Gina Yashere. It was shown on Friday afternoons on BBC One and repeated on Saturday on the CBBC Channel. The purpose was to showcase new CBBC comedy at the time.
The running gag in the slot was that Gina "hacks" the CBBC transmission in her claim to try to be a CBBC presenter. She often made desperate attempts to win over the audience, none of which were very effective.
Episodes
Series 1 (2007)
References
BBC children's television shows
2000s British satirical television series
2000s British children's television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkergate%20Metro%20station | Walkergate is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving Walkergate, Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 14 November 1982, following the opening of the fourth phase of the network, between Tynemouth and St James via Wallsend.
History
The station was opened on 22 June 1839 by the Newcastle and North Shields Railway. This later became part of the North Tyneside Loop, served by the North Eastern Railway. The station was renamed Walker Gate in April 1889. In the days of British Rail, the station was known as both Walkergate and Walker Gate. The Tyne and Wear Metro, however, uses the single word form.
Following closure for conversion in the early 1980s, the station was demolished and re-built. The original North Eastern Railway footbridge was preserved, and is now located at Pickering station, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
The station underwent modernisation work between September 2013 and July 2014, as part of the Metro: All Change programme. This involved improvements to accessibility (including the installation of a passenger lift), aesthetic changes, and the introduction of new smart ticket machines and validators.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramps providing step-free access to both platforms, as well as a lift providing step-free access to platform 1 (for trains towards Whitley Bay). The station is equipped with ticket machines, sheltered waiting area, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.
There is a small free car park available at the station, with 24 spaces. There is also the provision for cycle parking, with three cycle pods available for use.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
References
External links
Timetable and station information for Walkergate
Newcastle upon Tyne
1839 establishments in England
1982 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1839
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1982
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line stations
Transport in Newcastle upon Tyne
Transport in Tyne and Wear
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ellen%20Iskenderian | Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking, the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.
She has written columns in Forbes magazine and The Wall Street Journal and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review blog.
Education and career
Iskenderian holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a B.S. in International Economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Prior to joining Women's World Banking, Iskenderian was a senior manager at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group and held leadership positions including Director of Partnership Development, Director of Global Financial Markets Portfolio and Director of the South Asia Regional Department. She is on the Board of Directors of Kashf Microfinance Bank in Pakistan and is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves as an Advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative and is a judge for the annual Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards. She was also recently invited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a member of the US delegation to the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) 2011 Women and the Economy Summit. Iskenderian is a past recipient of NYU Stern’s Distinguished Citi Fellowship in Leadership and Ethics, the Isabel Benham Award from the Women's Bond Club, and the companion Women's Finance Award given by the Institute of Financial Services at Lucerne University, Switzerland. Previously, she worked for the investment bank Lehman Brothers.
References
American financiers
American women in business
American women bankers
American bankers
Armenian businesspeople
American people of Armenian descent
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
Living people
Yale University alumni
World Bank Group people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS%20EXEC | CMS EXEC, or EXEC, is an interpreted, command procedure control, computer scripting language used by the CMS EXEC Processor supplied with the IBM Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System (VM/CMS) operating system.
EXEC was written in 1966 by Stuart Madnick at MIT on the model of CTSS RUNCOM. He originally called this processor COMMAND, and it was later renamed EXEC.
CMS EXEC has been superseded by EXEC 2 and REXX. All three — CMS EXEC, EXEC 2 and REXX — continue to be supported by the IBM CMS product.
The EXEC language
EXEC processes lines up to 130 characters long when entered from a terminal, or 72 characters when read from a file.
A label consisting of a dash followed by up to seven alphanumeric characters can prefix a CMS command or an EXEC control statement.
The interpreter parses commands into blank-delimited tokens of up to eight characters each.
Variables consist of an ampersand followed by up to seven alphanumeric characters. Variables can be either user-defined variables or pre-defined ("special") EXEC variables.
As each line is read the tokens are scanned. If they contain EXEC variables the variables are replaced by their value.
Comments. Comments in EXEC files begin with an asterisk in column one. All other statements are executable statements.
Null statements. A null statement contains no data items.
CMS commands. If the first data item on a line is not an asterisk or ampersand the EXEC processor considers the line to be a CMS command and passes it to CMS for immediate execution.
Assignment statements. An assignment statement assigns a value to an EXEC variable. It has the form &variable = <arithmetic-expression>
Control statements. A statement where the first data item is an EXEC control word and the second is not an equals sign is assumed to be a control statement.
EXEC control words:
&ARGS - allows the user to redefine command arguments.
&BEGPUNCH - heads a series of lines to be spooled to the user's virtual punch.
&BEGSTACK - heads a series of lines to be placed in the user's console input stack.
&BEGTYPE - heads a series of lines to be typed on the user's terminal.
&END - marks the end of the lines processed by &BEGPUNCH, &BEGSTACK, or &BEGTYPE.
&CONTINUE - tells the interpreter to process the next line in the file.
&CONTROL - controls the format in which messages are displayed.
&ERROR - tells the interpreter what to do if an error is detected.
&EXIT - exits the current EXEC file, and optionally sets a return code.
&GOTO - branches to another location in the current EXEC file. The location can be TOP for the beginning of the file, a label, or a line number.
&IF allows for conditional execution of statements.
&LOOP - heads a group of statements to be executed multiple times, or until a specified condition is true.
&PUNCH - sends a string of tokens to the user's virtual punch. Each &PUNCH statement generates one card-image, padded or truncated if necessary.
&READ - reads one or more lines from the user's terminal. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXEC%202 | EXEC 2 is an interpreted, command procedure control, computer scripting language used by the EXEC 2 Processor originally supplied with the CMS component of the IBM Virtual Machine/System Product (VM/SP) operating system.
Relation to EXEC
EXEC 2 is mostly compatible with CMS EXEC but EXEC 2 scripts must begin with an &TRACE statement. Some EXEC statements and predefined variables do not exist in EXEC 2, although in some cases there are analogs. There are some minor differences in some statements and predefined functions.
EXEC 2 has the following enhancements:
There is no 8-byte restriction on token length.
Statements can be up to 255 characters long.
EXEC 2 can issue commands to subcommand environments as well as CMS and CP.
EXEC 2 has additional built-in functions.
EXEC 2 has user-defined functions.
EXEC 2 commands may include subroutines and functions.
EXEC 2 has extra debugging facilities.
CMS programs can manipulate EXEC 2 variables.
Some statemts of EXEC are not supported in EXEC 2, including:
&BEGSTACK ALL
&CONTROL
&EMSG
&END
&GOTO TOP
&HEX
&PUNCH
&SPACE
&TIME
Some predefined variables of EXEC are not defined in EXEC2:
&*
&$
&DISKX
&DISK*
&DISK?
&DOS
&EXEC
&GLOBAL
&GLOBALn
&READFLAG
&TYPEFLAG
XEDIT Macros
XEDIT Macros are files with filetype XEDIT, whose contents are
written using the syntax of CMS EXEC, EXEC 2 or REXX. Like regular EXEC 2 "EXEC" command
files, they begin with a "&TRACE" statement, to distinguish them from CMS EXEC files.
History
Written in the 1970s and formally introduced for CMS with VM/SP Release 1, EXEC 2 was preceded by CMS EXEC and superseded by REXX.
All three command interpreters—CMS EXEC, EXEC 2 and REXX — continue to be supported by z/VM.
References
External links
EXEC 2 Processor, CMS User's Guide, z/VM Version 5 Release 1.0, Program Number 5741-A05, Document Number SC24-6079-00, First Edition September 2004
REX - A Command Programming Language, REX First Public Paper, SHARE 56, 18 Feb 1981
IBM mainframe operating systems
Scripting languages
VM (operating system) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20engineering | Virtual engineering (VE) is defined as integrating geometric models and related engineering tools such as analysis, simulation, optimization, and decision making tools, etc., within a computer-generated environment that facilitates multidisciplinary collaborative product development. Virtual engineering shares many characteristics with software engineering, such as the ability to obtain many different results through different implementations.
Description
The concept
A virtual engineering environment provides a user-centered, first-person perspective that enables users to interact with an engineered system naturally and provides users with a wide range of accessible tools. This requires an engineering model that includes the geometry, physics, and any quantitative or qualitative data from the real system. The user should be able to walk through the operating system and observe how it works and how it responds to changes in design, operation, or any other engineering modification. Interaction within the virtual environment should provide an easily understood interface, appropriate to the user's technical background and expertise, that enables the user to explore and discover unexpected but critical details about the system's behavior. Similarly, engineering tools and software should fit naturally into the environment and allow the user to maintain her or his focus on the engineering problem at hand. A key aim of virtual engineering is to engage the human capacity for complex evaluation.
The key components of such an environment include:
User-centered virtual reality visualization techniques. When presented in a familiar and natural interface, complex three-dimensional data becomes more understandable and usable, enhancing the user's understanding. Coupled with an appropriate expert (e.g., a design engineer, a plant engineer, or a construction manager), virtual reality can reduce design time for better solutions.
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) Computer-aided manufacturing#cite note-ota-1Interactive analysis and engineering. Today nearly all aspects of power plant simulation require extensive off-line setup, calculation, and iteration. The time required for each iteration can range from one day to several weeks. Tools for interactive collaborative engineering in which the engineer can establish a dynamic thinking process are needed to permit real-time exploration of the “what-if” questions that are essential to the engineering process. In nearly all circumstances, an engineering answer now has much greater value than an answer tomorrow, next week, or next month. Although many excellent engineering analysis techniques have been developed, they are not routinely used as a fundamental part of engineering design, operations, control, and maintenance. The time required to set up, compute, and understand the result, then repeat the process until an adequate answer is obtained, significantly exceeds the time available. This includes techniques s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkseaton%20Metro%20station | Monkseaton is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburb of Monkseaton, North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 11 August 1980, following the opening of the first phase of the network, between Haymarket and Tynemouth via Four Lane Ends.
History
Monkseaton has been served by a station since June 1864, with the station at the current site opened in July 1915, under the North Eastern Railway. Following closure for conversion in the late 1970s, much of the original North Eastern Railway station building, dating from 1915, was retained. However, the southbound platform (trains towards South Shields) and buildings were demolished and replaced.
Monkseaton was recently refurbished, along with Cullercoats and West Monkseaton, in 2018, as part of the Metro: All Change programme. The refurbishment involved the installation of new seating and lighting, resurfaced platforms, and improved security and accessibility. The station was also painted in to the new black and white corporate colour scheme.
Facilities
The station has two platforms, both of which have ticket machines (which accept cash, card and contactless payment), smartcard validators, waiting shelter, seating, next train audio and visual displays, timetable and information posters and an emergency help point. The station building houses a restaurant, shop and micropub. There is step-free access to both platforms, with platforms linked by road bridge. The station has a free car park, with 22 spaces (plus one accessible space). There is also cycle storage at the station, with ten cycle pods.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday between South Shields and St James via Whitley Bay. Additional services operate between and Monkseaton at peak times.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
Art
Beach & Shipyards (1983) is an installation of two stained glass works, designed by Mike Davies, which have been incorporated into each end of the original glazed canopy, protecting passengers on the platform from the weather.
References
Notes
External links
Timetable and station information for Monkseaton
Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside
1915 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1915
1980 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1980
Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line stations
Transport in Tyne and Wear
Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psammobiidae | The Psammobiidae, or sunset clams, are a family of medium-sized saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs of the order Cardiida.
These genera are accepted by the database World Register of Marine Species:
Asaphis Modeer, 1793
Gari Schumacher, 1817
Heterodonax Mörch, 1853
Heteroglypta Martens in Möbius, 1880
Nuttallia Dall, 1900
Psammosphaerica Jousseaume, 1894
Psammotella Herrmannsen, 1852
Sanguinolaria Lamarck, 1799
Soletellina Blainville, 1824
References
External links
ITIS
Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979
Photographs of Psammobiidae specimens in the collection of Natural History Museum, Rotterdam.
Bivalve families
Taxa named by John Fleming (naturalist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance%20Monitor | Performance Monitor (known as System Monitor in Windows 9x, Windows 2000 and Windows XP) is a system monitoring program introduced in Windows NT 3.1. It monitors various activities on a computer such as CPU or memory usage. This type of application may be used to determine the cause of problems on a local or remote computer by measuring the performance of hardware, software services, and applications. The program can define thresholds for alerts and automatic actions, generate reports, and view past performance data.
In Windows 9x, System Monitor is not installed automatically during Windows setup, but could be installed manually using the Add/Remove Programs applet, located in the Control Panel. It has few counters available and offers little in the way of customization. In contrast, the Windows NT Performance Monitor is available out-of-the-box and has over 350 performance measurement criteria (called "counters") available. Performance Monitor can display information as a graph, a bar chart, or numeric values and can update information using a range of time intervals. The categories of information that can be monitored depends on which networking services are installed, but they always include file system, kernel, and memory manager. Other possible categories include Microsoft Network Client, Microsoft Network Server, and protocol categories.
In Windows 2000, the System Monitor of Windows 9x and the Performance Monitor of Windows NT 4 and earlier, as well as another program called Network Monitor, were merged into a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) plug-in called Performance, which consisted of two parts: "System Monitor" and "Performance Logs and Alerts". The "System Monitor" naming was kept in Windows XP. Some third-party publications referred to it as "Performance Monitor" however, even in Windows 2000 or XP contexts.
The name displayed inside the MMC plug-in was changed back to "Performance Monitor" in Windows Vista, although it was also bundled with a Reliability Monitor and with a new performance summary feature called Resource Overview. In Windows 7, the resource overview feature was split to a stand-alone Resource Monitor application, with the landing page for the Performance Monitor in Windows 7 containing a pointer to the (new) Resource Monitor; Windows 7 also moved the Reliability Monitor to the Action Center. A new feature added to the Performance Monitor in Windows Vista is Data Collector Set, which allows sets of accounting parameters to be easily manipulated as a group. Performance Monitor plots system CPU activity, and offers an ability to add counters as a method of plotting performance different from the ability to view CPU activity within Task Manager. Various integrated counters are available within the program, and the tool also offers the option to import them. The tool allows for selective instances to be monitored when selecting counters, and offers a description of each counter. Additionally, counters can be hig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gari%20%28bivalve%29 | Gari is a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family Psammobiidae, known as sunset shells.
Species
The following species have been accepted by the database World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):
Gari affinis (Dujardin, 1837) †
Gari amethystus (W. Wood, 1815)
Gari anomala (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari appendiculata (Lamarck, 1806) †
Gari aquitanica (Mayer, 1858) †
Gari aucklandica Marwick, 1948 †
Gari baudoni (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari brevisinuata (Cossmann, 1886) †
Gari cacuminata Finlay & Marwick, 1937 †
Gari caillati (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari californica (Conrad, 1849) – California sunset clam
Gari callosa (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari candidula (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari castrensis (Spengler, 1794)
Gari chinensis (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari circe (Mörch, 1876)
Gari commoda (Yokoyama, 1925)
Gari consobrina (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari convexa (Reeve, 1857)
Gari costulata (Turton, 1822)
Gari crassatellaeformis (Cossmann, 1883) †
Gari crassula (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari cuisensis (Cossmann, 1883) †
Gari debilis (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari depressa (Pennant, 1777) – large sunset shell
Gari dollfusi Cossmann, 1886 †
Gari donacilla (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari dutemplei (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari eburnea (Reeve, 1856)
Gari effusa (Lamarck, 1806) †
Gari elongata Lamarck
Gari eos Willan, 1993
Gari fervensis (Gmelin, 1791) – the Faroe sunset shell
Gari fucata (Hinds, 1845) – painted sunset clam
Gari galatheae (Powell, 1958)
Gari gofasi Cosel, 1990
Gari gracilenta (E. A. Smith, 1884)
Gari helenae Olsson, 1961
Gari inflata (Bertin, 1880)
Gari insignis (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari jousseaumeana Bertin, 1880
Gari juliae Willan & Huber, 2007
Gari kazusensis (Yokoyama, 1922)
Gari kenyoniana (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1904)
Gari lamarckii (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari lata (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari layardi (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari lessoni (de Blainville, 1826)
Gari lineolata (Gray, 1835) – pink sunset shell
Gari livida (Lamarck, 1818)
Gari loustauae (Cossmann, 1886) †
Gari maculosa (Lamarck, 1818)
Gari maxima (Deshayes, 1855)
[[Gari micans]] (Bertin, 1880)
Gari modesta (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari neglecta (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari nincki (Cossmann, 1913) †
Gari oamarutica Finlay, 1930 †
Gari obtusalis (Deshayes, 1825) †
Gari occidens (Gmelin, 1791)
Gari oriens (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari pallida (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari panamensis Olsson, 1961
Gari pennata (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari preangerensis (K. Martin, 1922) †
Gari pseudoweinkauffi Cosel, 1989
Gari pulcherrima (Deshayes, 1855)
Gari pusilla Bertin, 1880
Gari radiata (Dunker, 1845)
Gari rasilis (Melvill & Standen, 1899)
Gari rudis (Lamarck, 1806) †
Gari sharabatiae Rusmore-Villaume, 2005
Gari sibogai Prashad, 1932
Gari solida (Gray, 1828)
Gari spathula (Deshayes, 1857) †
Gari squamosa (Lamarck, 1818)
Gari staadti (Cossmann, 1913) †
Gari stangeri (Gray, 1843) – painted sunset shell
Gari tellinella (Lamarck, 1818)
Gari tellinella (Deshayes, 1824) † (accepted - unreplaced junior homonym, junior homonym of Gari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitley%20Bay%20Metro%20station | Whitley Bay is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the coastal town of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 11 August 1980, following the opening of the first phase of the network, between Haymarket and Tynemouth via Four Lane Ends.
History
In 1860, the Blyth and Tyne Railway opened the line from Tynemouth to Dairy House Junction, situated south of the village of Hartley in Northumberland. The original station serving the coastal town was named Whitley, and was located around west of the present station. However, this station was only open for four years, being closed in June 1864 and replaced by a station to the north, adjacent to the present day station at Monkseaton.
On 3 July 1882, the North Eastern Railway opened the coastal route between Monkseaton and Tynemouth, replacing the inland Blyth and Tyne Railway route. A new station, designed by William Bell, was opened the same year. Also known as Whitley, the station was renamed Whitley Bay on 1 July1899.
From 1904, the station was served by the electric trains of the North Eastern Railway. The electric services became so popular with people living in Whitley Bay and travelling to Newcastle to work, and also with those visiting the town for a day out or a holiday, that a new station became a necessity. The new building opened in October 1910. Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner later said of the building that it "(lends) some distinction to an undistinguished neighbourhood".
The Tyneside Electrics were withdrawn by British Rail in 1967, and replaced by diesel multiple unit trains. The diesel trains provided a slower service, and trains called at intervals of every 30 minutes instead of every 20, although a limited-stop express service also called every hour.
In preparation for its second conversion to electric train operation, this time to join the Tyne and Wear Metro system, the station lost its services towards Newcastle via Monkseaton on 23 January 1978, and was closed completely on 10 September 1979. It reopened on 11 August 1980, the first day of Metro service. The main changes involved in the station's conversion were shortening of the train shed at each end of the platforms and replacement of the original footbridge, with no further major changes having been made as of 2014. The station's main building and train shed were given Grade II listed building status in 1986.
Facilities
The station has two platforms, both of which have ticket machines (which accept cash, card and contactless payment), smartcard validators, seating, next train audio and visual displays, timetable and information posters and an emergency help point. There is step-free access to both platforms by accessible footbridge, with platforms also linked by a second footbridge, which replaced the original with latticework sides. The station has free car park, with 76 spaces. There is also cycle storage at the station, with eight cycle lockers and eight cycle pods.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20computer | A public computer (or public access computer) is any of various computers available in public areas. Some places where public computers may be available are libraries, schools, or dedicated facilities run by government.
Public computers share similar hardware and software components to personal computers, however, the role and function of a public access computer is entirely different. A public access computer is used by many different untrusted individuals throughout the course of the day. The computer must be locked down and secure against both intentional and unintentional abuse. Users typically do not have authority to install software or change settings. A personal computer, in contrast, is typically used by a single responsible user, who can customize the machine's behavior to their preferences.
Public access computers are often provided with tools such as a PC reservation system to regulate access.
The world's first public access computer center was the Marin Computer Center in California, co-founded by David and Annie Fox in 1977.
Kiosks
A kiosk is a special type of public computer using software and hardware modifications to provide services only about the place the kiosk is in. For example, a movie ticket kiosk can be found at a movie theater. These kiosks are usually in a secure browser with zero access to the desktop. Many of these kiosks may run Linux, however, ATMs, a kiosk designed for depositing money, often run Windows XP.
Public computers in the United States
Library computers
In the United States and Canada, almost all public libraries have computers available for the use of patrons, though some libraries will impose a time limit on users to ensure others will get a turn and keep the library less busy. Users are often allowed to print documents that they have created using these computers, though sometimes for a small fee.
Privacy
Privacy is an important part of the public library institution, since the libraries entitle the public to intellectual freedom. Use of any computer or network may create records of users' activities that can jeopardize their privacy. It is possible for a patron to jeopardize their privacy if they do not delete cache, clear cookies, or documents from the public computer. In order for a member of the public to remain private on a computer, the American Library Association (ALA) has guidelines. These give patrons an idea of the right way to keep using public library computers. In their provision of services to library users, librarians have an ethical responsibility, expressed in the ALA Code of Ethics, to preserve users' right to privacy. A librarian is also responsible for giving users an understanding of private patron use and access. Libraries must ensure that users have the following rights when browsing on public computers: the computer automatically will clear a users history; libraries should display privacy screens so users do not see another patron's screen; updating software for effe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity | Audacity means boldness.
Audacity may also refer to:
Computing
Audacity (audio editor), an audio editing application
Music
Audacity (album), a 2009 album by Ugly Duckling
Audacity (band), an American garage rock band
"Audacity" (song), by Stormzy, 2019
Audacity, a 2012 jazz album by George Garzone and Frank Tiberi with Rasmus Ehlers, Jakob Høyer, Jonas Westergaard
Literary
Audacity, a 1924 novel by Ben Ames Williams
Audacity, a 2017 book by Jonathan Chait
Military
HMS Audacity (D10), a British naval vessel
MV Audacity, a British merchant vessel renamed from Empire Audrey
See also
Audacious (disambiguation)
Audacy, formerly Radio.com, a broadcast and internet radio platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Network | American Network was a cable/satellite television network owned by Televisa. Established in 2002, the channel broadcast throughout Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador featuring English language programs originating from the United States. Most of the shows were CBS Television Studios-owned or distributed programming. American Network's coverage included all CBS News shows. Other shows on its schedule included programming from CBS Sports and Food Network.
The network ran an announcement, from August 22, 2011, that it would end its broadcast on September 5, 2011. It was replaced by Tiin, a Mexican Spanish-language network oriented to teenagers and kids.
External links
American Network Official Site (Spanish)
Television networks in Mexico
Televisa pay television networks
Defunct television channels in Mexico
Television channels and stations established in 2002
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
2002 establishments in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallion%20Metro%20station | Pallion is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the suburb of Pallion, City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 31 March 2002, following the opening of the Wearside extension – a project costing in the region of £100million. The station was used by 92,060 passengers in 2017–18, making it the least-used station on the network.
Original station
The old station opened in June 1853, as part of the Penshaw branch of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. Following the Beeching Axe, the line was closed, with the station being closed to passengers in May 1964, along with Hylton, and to goods in July 1965. At nearby Millfield, passenger service was withdrawn in May 1955, with goods facilities remaining until the late 1970s.
Metro era
The current station is located about north of the former Pallion station. Between Pallion and Millfield, it was necessary for the Tyne and Wear Metro route to deviate from the original alignment, owing to the construction of a road. A new trackbed was cut in to a steep slope, and extensively retained with piling, along with the construction of a new road bridge.
Along with other stations on the line between Fellgate and South Hylton, the station is fitted with vitreous enamel panels designed by artist Morag Morrison. Each station uses a different arrangement of colours, with strong colours used in platform shelters and ticketing areas, and a more neutral palate for external elements.
Pallion is the nearest station to the Northern Spire, a bridge over the River Wear, which is located about to the north of the station.
The station was used by 92,060 passengers in 2017–18, making Pallion the least used station on the network – closely followed by St Peter's and Bank Foot.
Facilities
Step-free access is available at all stations across the Tyne and Wear Metro network, with ramped access to both platforms at Pallion. The station is equipped with ticket machines, waiting shelter, seating, next train information displays, timetable posters, and an emergency help point on both platforms. Ticket machines are able to accept payment with credit and debit card (including contactless payment), notes and coins. The station is also fitted with smartcard validators, which feature at all stations across the network.
There is no dedicated car parking available at the station. There is the provision for cycle parking, with five cycle pods available for use.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
References
External links
Timetable and station information for Pallion
Sunderland
2002 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2002
Tyne and Wear Metro Green line stations
Transport in the City of Sunderland
Transport in Tyne and Wear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Beltr%C3%A1n | Los Beltrán (in English, "The Beltrans") was an American Spanish-language sitcom series, which aired on the U.S.-based network Telemundo from October 17, 1999 to 2001. Although canceled after two seasons, Los Beltrán received a number of media awards. Los Beltrán was the first sitcom in two decades to deal with the Cuban American experience (following the PBS bilingual sitcom ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, which aired from 1977 to 1980) and the first-ever Spanish-language entertainment series to feature sympathetic gay characters as regulars.
Plot
The series was based broadly on the 1970s U.S. sitcom All in the Family, by Norman Lear, and on its 1960s British antecedent, Till Death Us Do Part. The lead character, Manny Beltrán (Emiliano Díez), was an ultraconservative Cuban exile who owned a small bodega (neighborhood market) in southern California. Manny was comically obsessed with money, and with reason: he was financially supporting not only his wife Letti (Margarita Coego) and law-student daughter Anita (played by Yeni Álvarez), but also his daughter's militantly liberal husband, Miguel Perez (Demetrius Navarro), a Chicano art student who was constantly challenging his father-in-law's prejudices and politics, while living under Manny's roof and eating his food.
Unlike the families of Archie Bunker and Alf Garnett, however, the Beltráns in the first episode are moving up from their working-class digs to a nice, middle-class duplex in Burbank, which they've bought thanks to some lottery winnings. Upon moving in, they discover that their next-door neighbors (and holdover tenants) are a homosexual couple: a Spanish physician, Fernandito Salazar (Gabriel Romero), and his American boyfriend, Kevin Lynch (James C. Leary). This sets up a number of plot lines through the course of the series, much as did the Jeffersons moving in next door to the Bunkers in the early days of All in the Family.
Two particular episodes, focused on Fernandito and Kevin, got the series noticed by some English-language media. In the first season, Fernandito gets an unexpected visit from his father, a Spanish general (who resembles the late caudillo Francisco Franco), and in the end comes out to the father as gay. In the second season, Fernandito and Kevin have a commitment ceremony—shortly after Californians in real life had voted on, and passed into law, the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 22. This was the first same-sex wedding ceremony ever shown on a Spanish-language television series.
Cast
Emiliano Díez as Manny Beltrán
Margarita Coego as Letti Beltrán
Demetrius Navarro as Miguel Perez
Yeni Álvarez as Anita
Gabriel Romero as Fernandito Salazar
James C. Leary as Kevin Lynch
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Awards and recognition
Los Beltrán received the 2001 Imagen Foundation Award for Best Comedy Series and the 2001 ALMA Award from the National Council of La Raza for Best Spanish Language Comedy Series. It was nominated for two GLAAD Media Awards, the first Spanish-languag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Peter%27s%20Metro%20station | St Peter's is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the University of Sunderland and suburb of St Peter's, City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. It joined the network on 31 March 2002, following the opening of the Wearside extension – a project costing in the region of £100million.
History
To allow for the re-building of the station at Sunderland, St. Peter's served as a temporary terminus for rail services operated by Northern Spirit between 25 February 2001 and 16 April 2001.
St. Peter's is located at the north end of the Monkwearmouth Bridge, a railway bridge crossing the River Wear, built in 1879, and to the south of the former station at Monkwearmouth, which closed in March 1967.
It is located a short walk from the University of Sunderland's Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St. Peter's, which is about 750 metres to the east of the station. For the University of Sunderland's City Campus, the closest station is University. The station is also located near to the National Glass Centre, which is just over half a mile to the east of the station. Despite the station's name, St. Peter's is actually closer to the Stadium of Light than the nearby Metro station with the same name.
The station was used by 0.11 million passengers in 2017–18, making it the second-least-used station on the network, after Pallion.
Facilities
The station has two platforms, both of which have ticket machines (which accept cash, card and contactless payment), smartcard validators, seating, next train audio and visual displays, timetable and information posters and an emergency help point. There is step-free access to both platforms by lift, with platforms also accessed by staircase. The station has free car park, with 23 spaces (plus four accessible spaces). There is also cycle storage at the station, with five cycle pods.
Services
, the station is served by up to five trains per hour on weekdays and Saturday, and up to four trains per hour during the evening and on Sunday between South Hylton and Newcastle Airport.
Rolling stock used: Class 599 Metrocar
Art
The station features the White Light art installation. Designed by British artist, Ron Haselden, it consists of illuminated ovals embedded into the glass floor, which change in intensity according to the strength of the wind.
Notes
References
External links
Timetable and station information for St Peter's
Sunderland
University of Sunderland
2002 establishments in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2002
Tyne and Wear Metro Green line stations
Transport in the City of Sunderland
Transport in Tyne and Wear
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Cartoon%20Network%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network Canada. Télétoon has a different schedule than the English version, although many of the same programs are aired on both channels. For television programs broadcast during their respective nighttime blocks, see Teletoon at Night and Télétoon la nuit. Premiere airdates are provided in parentheses where available.
Current programming
As of October 2023:
Teletoon original programming
Cartoon Network/Max (U.S.) original programming
Other acquired programming
Reruns of ended programming
Teletoon original programming
Cartoon Network/Max (U.S.) original programming
Other acquired programming
Former programming
1 Indicates program moved to YTV.
2 Indicates program moved to Family Channel/WildBrainTV.
3 Indicates program moved to Treehouse TV.
Teletoon original programming
A Treasure in My Garden (September 3, 2003)
The Adventures of Paddington Bear (October 17, 1997)
The Amazing Spiez! (September 6, 2010)
Angela Anaconda (October 5, 1999)
Animal Crackers (October 17, 1997)
Atomic Betty (August 29, 2004)
Atomic Puppet (September 11, 2016)
Bad Dog (March 1, 1999)
The Bagel and Becky Show (November 14, 2016)
Bakugan: Armored Alliance (February 16, 2020)
Bakugan Battle Brawlers (April 5, 2007)
Bakugan: Battle Planet (December 31, 2018)
Bakugan: Evolutions (February 6, 2022)
Bakugan: Geogan Rising (January 24, 2021)
Bakugan: Gundalian Invaders (May 23, 2010)
Bakugan: Legends (April 1, 2023)
Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge (February 13, 2011)
Bakugan: New Vestroia (April 12, 2009)
The Baskervilles (March 10, 2000)
Best Ed (October 3, 2008)
Blake and Mortimer
Blaster's Universe (January 4, 2000)
Braceface (June 2, 2001)
Bravest Warriors (Season 4) (September 3, 2018)
Bromwell High (February 1, 2005)
Caillou3 (October 17, 1997)
Camp Lakebottom (July 4, 2013)
The Care Bears Family (March 2009)
Carl² (August 7, 2005)
Chaotic (March 16, 2007)
Chop Chop Ninja (October 6, 2018)
Chop Chop Ninja Challenge (November 24, 2014)
Chop Socky Chooks (March 16, 2007)
Class of the Titans (December 31, 2005)
Clone High (November 2, 2002)
Cracked
Crash Canyon (September 18, 2011)
Creepschool (March 13, 2004)
Cupcake & Dino: General Services (September 3, 2018)
Cybersix (September 6, 1999)
Daft Planet (September 2, 2002)
The Dating Guy (October 17, 2010)
Delilah & Julius (August 14, 2005)
Delta State (September 11, 2004)
Detentionaire (September 12, 2011)
Di-Gata Defenders (August 5, 2006)
Donkey Kong Country (October 17, 1997)
Doodlez (September 6, 2002)
Dr. Dimensionpants (November 6, 2014)
Eckhart (September 8, 2000)
Edward (January 23, 2002)
Endangered Species (March 3, 2015)
Flight Squad (March 27, 2000)
Fly Tales (September 6, 1999)
Flying Rhino Junior High (October 3, 1998)
For Better or For Worse (November 5, 2000)
Freaktown (June 20, 2016)
Fred the Caveman (September 2, 2002)
Fred's Head (January 12, 2008)
Fugget About It (September 7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorg.conf | The file xorg.conf is a file used for configuring the X.Org Server. While typically located in , its location may vary across operating system distributions (See manual, "man xorg.conf" for details and further possible locations).
For a long time, editing xorg.conf was necessary for advanced input devices and multiple monitor output to work correctly. In modern systems this is seldom necessary due to input hotplugging and the XRandR extension integrated into new X.org releases. Some devices still require manual editing, notably components utilizing proprietary drivers may require explicit configuration, in order for Xorg to load them.
See also
XF86Config
XFree86 Modeline
External links
Xorg.conf manual page
References
Configuration files
X Window System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor%20%28disambiguation%29 | An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else.
Impostor(s), Imposter(s), The Impostor(s), or The Imposter(s) may also refer to:
Computing
Impostor (computer graphics) or sprite, an image or animation integrated into a larger scene
Impostors, a fictional alien race and the antagonists of the 2018 social deduction game Among Us
Film
, a film by George Abbott and Dell Henderson
Impostor (1921 film), a German silent film
The Impostor (1921 film), a film by Robert N. Bradbury
The Impostor (1926 film), a film starring Evelyn Brent
The Impostor (1927 film), a German silent film
The Impostor (1944 film), a film by Julien Duvivier
The Imposter (1975 American film), a TV film starring Meredith Baxter
The Imposter (1975 Hong Kong film), a film produced by Shaw Brothers
The Imposter, a 1984 TV film featuring Ken Olandt
El Impostor (film), a 1997 American film produced by Oscar Kramer
The Impostors, a 1998 film by Stanley Tucci
Impostor (2001 film), a science fiction film
The Imposter (2008 film), a Christian film by Dan Millican
The Imposter (2012 film), a documentary about the 1997 case of Frédéric Bourdin
Literature
Impostor (short story), a 1953 science fiction story by Philip K. Dick
The Imposter (novel), a 1927 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos
"The Imposter" (short story), a 1997 story by Nathanael West
The Impostor, a 1977 novel by Helen McCloy
The Impostors (play), a 1789 play by Richard Cumberland
, a 2014 novel by Javier Cercas
L'impostore, an 18th-century play by Carlo Goldoni
If I Were for Real (play), a 1979 Chinese play, also translated as The Impostor
Tartuffe (full title: Tartuffe, or the Impostor), a 1664 comedic play by Molière
Music
Imposter (album), a 2021 album by Dave Gahan and Soulsavers
The Imposter (album), a 2005 album by Kevin Max
The Impostor (Banjo Concerto), a 2011 concerto by Béla Fleck
"Imposter", a 1981 song by The Moondogs
"Imposter", a song by Oingo Boingo from the 1981 album Only a Lad
"Impostor", a song by The Doubleclicks from the 2013 album Lasers and Feelings
The Imposters, a backing band for Elvis Costello
Television
Impostor (TV series), a 2010 Philippine TV series starring Maja Salvador and Melai Cantiveros
The Imposter, a syndication title for the DuMont TV series Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953–54)
Imposters (TV series), a 2017 American television series on Bravo
"The Impostors" (Thunderbirds), an episode of Thunderbirds
The Imposters, a hidden-camera television pilot co-starring comedian Mal Sharpe
L'Imposteur ("The Imposter"), a 2016 Québec television series starring Marc-André Grondin
Impostora (The Impostor), a 2008 Philippine television series starring Sunshine Dizon and Iza Calzado
"Imposters" (Star Trek: Picard), an episode of the third season of Star Trek: Picard
See also
Impostor syndrome, when a person is unable to internalize accomplishments
Masih ad-Dajjal ("The Impostor Messiah"), an evil figure in Islamic eschatology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout%20%28operating%20system%29 | Scout is a research operating system developed at the University of Arizona. It is communication-oriented and designed around the constraints of network-connected devices like set-top boxes.
The Scout researchers had in mind a class of devices that they called "network appliances", which include cameras and disks attached to a network. They believed that these devices have in common the following three characteristics:
Communication-Oriented
Specialized/Diverse Functionality
Predictable Performance with Scarce Resources
To satisfy these three requirements, Scout was designed around an abstraction called a "path"; was highly configurable; and offered scheduling and resource allocation policies that provided predictable performance under load.
See also
Single address space operating system
External links
Scout Home Page
Embedded operating systems
University of Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearnet | Fearnet was an American digital cable television network, website and video on demand service owned by Comcast. The network specialized in horror entertainment programming through a mix of acquired and original series, and feature films.
Background and platforms
Fearnet on Demand
Fearnet launched on October 31, 2006 as a video on demand service, Fearnet On Demand. It was originally operated as a joint venture between Comcast, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The on-demand service featured full-length horror, thriller, and suspense films as well as shorts, trailers, interviews, and behind-the-scenes featurettes. It was available to subscribers of Comcast, Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-verse, Insight Communications, Bresnan Communications, Guadalupe Valley Systems, Buckeye CableSystem, Time Warner Cable, Wave Broadband, Bright House Networks, and CenturyLink.
Fearnet cable channel
Fearnet launched as a linear cable channel on October 31, 2010. The network was originally scheduled to launch four weeks earlier on October 1, but the date was pushed back as Fearnet was in the midst of carriage negotiations with cable providers to carry the linear channel. The Fearnet channel was available through Comcast (in select markets), Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS, Bright House Networks, and CenturyLink. The network aired over 350 full-length feature films annually, as well as popular series (such as Tales from the Crypt and Reaper) and original content (such as Holliston) and the weekend program block called "Funhouse".
In September 2012, Fearnet became the first television network to offer Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI), technology which decreases integration time from four weeks to as few as three days, and allows advertisers to refresh creative mid-campaign and track impressions on a daily basis.
Fearnet.com
The Fearnet website featured thriller, suspense, and horror films available for streaming (with available content updated each week); other videos including movie trailers and shorts; daily news and reviews that covered all aspects of the genre; and sweepstakes, chats, and forums. The website had over 270,000 registered users.
Leadership and ownership changes
In 2010, Peter Block (who launched the top-grossing Saw horror film franchise, and produced several other blockbuster horror and thriller films including Hostel, Cabin Fever, Open Water, and House at the End of the Street) was named president and general manager of Fearnet, replacing Diane Robina. In addition to his duties at Fearnet, Block continued to run his production company A Bigger Boat.
Merger with Chiller
On April 14, 2014, Comcast purchased Lions Gate Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment's stakes in Fearnet to acquire full ownership of the channel. Comcast planned to fold Fearnet's programming into its existing horror- and thriller-focused network Chiller (owned by the company's NBCUniversal Cable unit) and move some of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gener8Xion%20Entertainment | Gener8Xion Entertainment, Inc. is a Christian independent film production company based in Hollywood, California. The company is a spin off from Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The company was led by Matt Crouch (TBN) until mid-2010.
Filmography
The Omega Code (1999)
Carman: The Champion (2001)
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
One Night with the King (2006)
Noëlle (2007) (distributor)
The Cross (2009)
Preacher's Kid (2010)
References
External links
Gener8Xion Entertainment, Inc.
Film production companies of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Christian film production companies
Trinity Broadcasting Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20CTV%20Comedy%20Channel | This is a list of television programs formerly, and currently broadcast by the Canadian television channel CTV Comedy Channel and previously The Comedy Network.
Current and upcoming programming
This is a list of programs currently being broadcast regularly and irregularly, as of October 2022.
Original
Roast Battle Canada (October 11, 2021-present)
American-originated programming
The Daily Show
Hell of a Week with Charlamagne tha God
Tooning Out the News
Repeats
The Big Bang Theory
Cash Cab
Corner Gas
Corner Gas Animated
Friends
Modern Family
‘Til Death
Children Ruin Everything
Bob Hearts Abishola
Shelved
According to Jim
How I Met Your Mother
Tacoma FD
Leaving Soon
The Stand Up Show With Jon Dore
The Stand Up Show With Katherine Ryan
Acting Good
Wipeout
Former programming
Acquired from Hulu
Crossing Swords
Acquired from Comedy Central
Good Talk with Anthony Jeselnik
Klepper
Lights Out with David Spade
Comedy Central Roast (special)
Acquired from TBS
Chad
Miracle Workers
Acquired from TruTV
It's Personal with Amy Hoggart
Tacoma FD
A-E
Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!
The Abbott and Costello Show
Absolutely Fabulous
Adam Devine's House Party
After Hours (aka After Hours with Kenny Robinson) (original program)
Air Farce
Alice, I Think (original program)
American Body Shop'''Angie TribecaThe Assistant@MidnightBattleBotsBeat the Geeks BrickleberryThe BeavertonBenchedBizarreBlue Collar TVBob and Margaret (original program ran from 2000 until 2017)The BobroomBounty HuntersBroad CityBrockmireButch Patterson: Private Dick (original program)Buzz (after Buzzs run on Rogers TV)Canadian Comedy Shorts (original program)Celebrity DeathmatchChappelle's ShowCheersClippedCocktalesThe Colbert ReportComedy at Club 54Comedy Central PresentsComedy Central RoastComedy Inc. (CTV production)The Comedy JamComedy Now!Comics!CommunityCONCold as BallsDan for MayorThe DetourDiff'rent StrokesThe Dish ShowDrawn TogetherDistraction (UK and US versions)Dog Bites ManDouble ExposureThe DownloadDr. Katz Professional TherapistDrunk HistoryElvira Kurt: Adventures in Comedy (original program)Everybody Loves RaymondExtrasF-JThe Facts of LifeFawlty TowersFrasierFreak ShowFrench and SaundersFresh Off the BoatFull Frontal with Samantha BeeGeorge Street TV (original program)Girls Will Be Girls (original program)The GoldbergsGood Morning World (original program)The Gorburger ShowGround FloorGutterball Alley (original program)The Half HourHalifax Comedy FestivalHappy Tree FriendsHiccupsThe High Court with Doug BensonHistory BitesThe HoneymoonersHotboxHot in ClevelandHouse PartyHome EconomicsI Love LucyImportant Things with Demetri MartinImpastorImprov Heaven and Hell (original program)In Living ColorInside Amy SchumerInternet SluttsThe Itch (original program)It's a LivingJeff Ltd. (CTV production)Jeff Ross Presents Roast BattleThe Jeselnik OffensiveThe Jim Gaffigan ShowThe Jim Jefferies ShowJimmy Kimmel Live!The Joe Blow ShowJon Benjamin Has a VanThe Jon Dore Television ShowJust f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluence%20Trail | The Confluence Trail, part of the Madison County, Illinois Transit (MCT) bikeways network, is a bike trail between Granite City and Alton, Illinois's Russell Commons Park. The majority of the trail is paved asphalt on top of the Mississippi River levee system. The trail is part of the St. Louis metro area's Confluence Greenway.
Background
Points of interest along the trail include the Clark Bridge in Alton, the at Melvin Price Locks and Dam, the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site, the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, the Chain of Rocks Canal, Chouteau Island and the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge (former U.S. Route 66 crossing).
The Lewis and Clark Confluence Tower is also located directly on the trail.
References
Bike paths in Illinois
Tourist attractions in Madison County, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental%20Gearbolt | Elemental Gearbolt, full title , is a light gun shooter for the Sony PlayStation. Developed by Alfa System, the game was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and released in Japan during holiday season of 1997. Working Designs licensed the game for the North American market and released it on June 30, 1998.
Elemental Gearbolt was critically well received due to its science fantasy setting, which is uncommon in light gun shooters, along with its incorporation of RPG elements, and particularly the artistry of its presentation. It features an orchestral soundtrack, and animated cutscenes directed by the anime director Rintaro.
Story
The events of the game are framed through Tagami, a mysterious figure who travels to the world in order to investigate what caused its destruction.
The world was home to two races, Audo and Sulunkan. The Sulunkan, descendants of a fallen magical empire, were oppressed by the Audo. There are resistance groups, but none strong enough to challenge the Audo ruling class. Nell and Seana, the Sugiku (half breed) daughters of a resistance leader, meet Bel Cain, the Sugiku son of the selfish King Jabugal. Nell and Bel Cain promise to meet again. Bel Cain breaks his amulet in two and gives Nell one half as a reminder.
Years later, Bel Cain becomes crown prince, full of ambition to end the bitter class struggle. Armed with advanced technology, he starts a campaign of conquest. Nell and Seana join the Sulunkan resistance, only to be killed. Their bodies are taken back to the capital city as trophies. One of Bel Cain's technologies, a Neural Network Computer, malfunctions and initiates a self-destruct sequence. It links powerful weapons known as Holy Guns to Nell and Seana's corpses, re-animating them as Elementals with only one purpose: seek and destroy the Network.
Nell and Seana battle their way towards Owato, where Bel Cain and his older brother and subordinate Ialu are also headed. Bel Cain visits the Network, revealed to be made of mass amounts of brain-matter of the casualties of war. Bel Cain believes that the people who gave their lives to the Network will find a way to carry out his plans.
Bel Cain has vowed to avenge his mother by killing and overthrowing her murderer, King Jabugal. Ialu reports that the excavation unit at the Goate Mountains have been destroyed, the cause being one or two armored individuals mounted with incredible weapons headed towards Owato. King Jabugal tries to escape after plundering Owato of its riches. However, Bel Cain shoots the king, killing him in front of onlooking nobles. Bel Cain criticizes the people for blindly following a king who exploited his people, then tells them to cast aside the memory of King Jabugal and bow down before him. The nobles cooperate.
Nell and Seana fly into Owato and make their way to the inner depths of the palace. Ialu urges the prince to retreat, but Bel Cain decides to stay, remembering a younger Nell telling him that his strength of character will se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley%20Craft | Shelley Craft (born 21 June 1976) is an Australian television personality.
She is most well known for her long-running presenting roles on the Seven Network programs Saturday Disney from 1996 until 2002, and The Great Outdoors from 2002 until 2007.
From 2008 to present she has been working for the Nine Network on a number of programs, most notably as host of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, Domestic Blitz, The Block, Reno Rumble and Your Domain.
In 2013, she presented the 'Saturday Showdown' edition of Big Brother Australia. Craft is an ambassador for online travel agency TripADeal.
Television career
Seven Network
Craft began her television career in the early 1990s with a work experience stint at Channel Seven in Brisbane. This led to a job offer as a production assistant on a local program, and a few months later a co-host role with children's program Saturday Disney.
Craft remained with Saturday Disney as host and segment producer for six years. Craft joined The Great Outdoors as a reporter in late 2001 and therefore chose to leave Saturday Disney in July 2002 whilst returning on occasion up until October 2005. Craft had one final appearance on Saturday Disney through flashbacks during an episode broadcast during September 2009, celebrating 1000 episodes of the program.
As well as presenting stories for The Great Outdoors, she has worked on several of Channel Seven's major sporting events, including the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney (as part of the Sunrise team), the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Melbourne Cups.
Along with puppet, Agro, Craft hosted the short-lived revival of dating game show Perfect Match Australia in late 2002. In 2005, she co-hosted Australia's Guinness World Records with Grant Denyer.
In 2006 Craft also joined Grant Denyer in presenting the annual telecast of Carols in the Domain.
After the 2007 season, Craft left The Great Outdoors after a clean-out of the show, with several other presenters also shown the door.
In late 2007, it was reported that Craft could have been a possible replacement for Kate Ritchie as the co-host of It Takes Two, but Craft, apparently miffed at the job offer, quit the network.
Craft's last on-air role at the Seven Network was presenting Comedy Classics for Comic Relief with Russell Gilbert.
Nine Network
In January 2008, Craft signed with the Nine Network, severing her long links with Seven Network.
Craft took over from Toni Pearen as host of Australia's Funniest Home Video Show from February 2008.
She began as co-host on the lifestyle series, Domestic Blitz, alongside Scott Cam from May 2008.
Later in 2008, Craft did a commercial for National Tree Day, followed by advertisements for Jetstar in late 2009.
In 2011, Craft again presented alongside Scott Cam, this time in the competition series The Block. Craft hosted the Friday night special episodes titled The Block: Unlocked and appeared in numerous regular episodes, presenting chall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chamber%20Music%20Society%20of%20Lower%20Basin%20Street | The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is a musical variety radio program which began on the Blue Network on February 11, 1940.
The program was created and hosted by NBC staff announcer Gene Hamilton, as a tongue-in-cheek satire of highbrow symphonic broadcasts hosted by Milton Cross. Instead of Cross's dignified commentary introducing each orchestral selection, "Dr. Gino Hamilton" would introduce a traditional hot-jazz (dixieland) melody, peppering his remarks with slang.
The music was performed by two house bands. Henry Levine, a former member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, led an eight-member dixieland combo; Paul Laval (later Lavalle) led a 10-piece woodwind ensemble, with arrangements employing oboe, bassoon, and French horn. Each broadcast featured a vocalist: Dinah Shore was discovered on the Basin Street program; she was succeeded in turn by New York-based vocalists Diane Courtney, Dodie O'Neill, Dixie Mason, Linda Keene, Loulie Jean Norman, and Lena Horne.
Gene Hamilton invited guest artists to appear on Lower Basin Street, including Benny Goodman, Count Basie, W. C. Handy, Bobby Hackett, Lead Belly, Lionel Hampton, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and Alec Templeton, among other famous names in the jazz world. Many leading musicians were fans of the show, and kept in touch with Hamilton by telephone to arrange guest shots.
The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street began as a sustaining (unsponsored) half-hour feature on NBC's Sunday-afternoon schedule (4:30 p.m. Eastern time). So many listeners wrote to the network expressing approval -- and asking to see the show in person -- that in October 1940 NBC gave Lower Basin Street a Monday-evening slot in its primetime schedule. Fans protested vigorously when the network sometimes pre-empted the program and even announced plans to cancel it. As Variety commented: "NBC has twice decided to fold the series, but each time has continued it in response to listener agitation." Hamilton mentioned this off-again, on-again status on the air: "Greetings, music lovers, and if we've been canceled again and you're not hearing this, please don't tell us." Hamilton was forced to leave the program in late 1941, when NBC reassigned him to its production department. He was replaced as host by announcer Jack McCarthy and then by the very man the series was burlesquing, Milton Cross.
After two years of running as a sustaining show, Lower Basin Street found a sponsor: the Andrew Jergens Company, manufacturer of health and beauty aids. With a budget enhanced by Jergens, the program could now afford more "name" guest stars. The format drifted away from Hamilton's original, intimate concept of hot-jazz jam sessions and became a brassy big-band jamboree staged for large crowds. The Jergens advertising agency Lennen & Mitchell kept tampering with the format, and the program took a sharp nosedive. As Billboard reported during the show's last weeks: "It is said that the show, whi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GISAID | GISAID (), the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data, previously the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data, is a global science initiative established in 2008 to provide access to genomic data of influenza viruses. The database was expanded to include the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other pathogens. The database has been described as "the world's largest repository of COVID-19 sequences". GISAID facilitates genomic epidemiology and real-time surveillance to monitor the emergence of new COVID-19 viral strains across the planet.
Since its establishment as an alternative to sharing avian influenza data via conventional public-domain archives, GISAID has facilitated the exchange of outbreak genome data during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, the H7N9 epidemic in 2013, the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak.
History
Origin
Since 1952, influenza strains had been collected by National Influenza Centers (NICs) and distributed through the WHO's Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS). Countries provided samples to the WHO but the data was then shared with them for free with pharmaceutical companies who could patent vaccines produced from the samples. Beginning in January 2006, Italian researcher Ilaria Capua refused to upload her data to a closed database and called for genomic data on H5N1 avian influenza to be in the public domain. At a conference of the OIE/FAO Network of Expertise on Animal Influenza, Capua persuaded participants to agree to each sequence and release data on 20 strains of influenza. Some scientists had concerns about sharing their data in case others published scientific papers using the data before them, but Capua dismissed this telling Science "What is more important? Another paper for Ilaria Capua's team or addressing a major health threat? Let's get our priorities straight." Peter Bogner, a German in his 40s based in the USA and who previously had no experience in public health, read an article about Capua's call and helped to found and fund GISAID. Bogner met Nancy Cox, who was then leading the US Centers for Disease Control's influenza division at a conference, and Cox went on to chair GISAID's Scientific Advisory Council.
The acronym GISAID was coined in a correspondence letter published in the journal Nature in August 2006, putting forward an initial aspiration of creating a consortium for a new Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (later, "All" would replace "Avian"), whereby its members would release data in publicly available databases up to six months after analysis and validation. Initially the organisation collaborated with the Australian non-profit organization Cambia and the Creative Commons project Science Commons. Although no essential ground rules for sharing were established, the correspondence letter was signed by over 70 leading scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, because access to the most current geneti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20magnetohydrodynamics | Computational magnetohydrodynamics (CMHD) is a rapidly developing branch of magnetohydrodynamics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve electrically conducting fluids. Most of the methods used in CMHD are borrowed from the well established techniques employed in Computational fluid dynamics. The complexity mainly arises due to the presence of a magnetic field and its coupling with the fluid. One of the important issues is to numerically maintain the (conservation of magnetic flux) condition, from Maxwell's equations, to avoid the presence of unrealistic effects, namely magnetic monopoles, in the solutions.
Open-source MHD software
Pencil CodeCompressible resistive MHD, intrinsically divergence free, embedded particles module, finite-difference explicit scheme, high-order derivatives, Fortran95 and C, parallelized up to hundreds of thousands cores. Source code is available.
RAMSES RAMSES is an open source program to model astrophysical systems, featuring self-gravitating, magnetised, compressible, radiative fluid flows. It is based on the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) technique on a fully threaded graded octree. RAMSES is written in Fortran 90 and is making intensive use of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. Source code is available.
RamsesGPU RamsesGPU is an MHD program written in C++, based on the original RAMSES but only for regular grid (no AMR). The code has been designed to run on large clusters of GPU (NVIDIA graphics processors), so parallelization relies on MPI for distributed memory processing, as well as the programing language CUDA for efficient usage of GPU resources. Static Gravity Fields are supported. Different finite volume methods are implemented. Source code is available.
AthenaAthena is a grid-based program for astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It was developed primarily for studies of the interstellar medium, star formation, and accretion flows. Source code is available.
EOF-Library EOF-Library is a software that couples Elmer FEM and OpenFOAM simulation packages. It enables efficient internal field interpolation and communication between the finite element and the finite volume frameworks. Potential applications are MHD, convective cooling of electrical devices, industrial plasma physics and microwave heating of liquids.
Closed-source MHD software
USim
MACH2
STAR-CCM+
See also
Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Magnetic flow meter
Plasma modeling
References
Brio, M., Wu, C. C.(1988), "An upwind differencing scheme for the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics", Journal of Computational Physics, 75, 400–422.
Henri-Marie Damevin and Klaus A. Hoffmann(2002), "Development of a Runge-Kutta Scheme with TVD for Magnetogasdynamics", Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 34,No.4, 624–632.
Robert W. MacCormack(1999), "An upwind conservation form method for ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations", AIAA-99-3609.
Robert W. MacCormack(2001), "A conservation form method |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%20Night%20Mayhem | Monday Night Mayhem is a 2002 television film about the origin of ABC's television series Monday Night Football. It debuted on the U.S. cable TV network TNT on January 14, 2002. It was based on the 1988 nonfiction book of the same title by Marc Gunther and Bill Carter.
Cast
John Turturro as Howard Cosell
John Heard as Roone Arledge
Kevin Anderson as Frank Gifford
Nicholas Turturro as Chet Forte
Brad Beyer as Don Meredith
Patti LuPone as Emmy Cosell
Eli Wallach as Leonard Goldenson
Shuler Hensley as Keith Jackson
Jay Thomas as Pete Rozelle
Brennan Brown as Bob Goodrich
Chad L. Coleman as O. J. Simpson
Production
Filming took place in New York, New Jersey, and other locations by Turner Network Television.
Reception
Phil Gallo of Variety complained that "nobody looks quite right" and "there is invariably a thin line between caricature and character."
Larry Stewart of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a negative review, writing, "The book was good, the movie isn’t. It appears to be cheaply made and the characters, particularly Frank Gifford and Don Meredith, are not believable. John Turturro does a decent job portraying Cosell, but his performance isn’t enough to save the movie." Stewart concludes, "It doesn’t come close to matching a documentary HBO did a couple of years ago titled “Cosell.”"
Allen Barra of The New York Times gave the film a more positive review, writing that the film "works because of Mr. Turturro's unabashed joy in playing a part as juicy as Howard Cosell."
Related films
In the same year, Jon Voight portrayed Howard Cosell in the Michael Mann biopic Ali (2001). Voight's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Home media
The movie was released on VHS on September 10, 2002.
See also
List of American football films
References
External links
American football films
Films about television
Films based on non-fiction books
TNT Network original films
2002 television films
2002 films
Monday Night Football
ABC Sports
Films set in the 1970s
Films set in the 1980s
Films directed by Ernest Dickerson
Films scored by Van Dyke Parks
Films shot in New York (state)
Films shot in New Jersey
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix/NS | Unix/NS (the NCR 3700 Operating System) is based on the Unix SVR4. It contains significant extensions for massively parallel systems, in particular Distributed Memory DBMSs. The extensions include the concepts of virtual processor and virtual disk, message and global synchronization system, segment system, and globally distributed objects. When compared to other parallel UNIX operating systems like Mach or Chorus, Unix/NS has a more powerful communication and message addressing paradigm, and richer process-group management and global synchronization mechanism.
References
UNIX System V
NCR Corporation products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927%20in%20radio | The year 1927 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.
Events
1 January
NBC in the United States makes the first ever coast-to-coast network radio broadcast of a Rose Bowl Game.
NBC takes control of WJZ in New York City—the beginning of the NBC Blue Network.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) takes over the activities and operations of the former British Broadcasting Company (1922–26). John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
2 January – The Reverend Claude Lhande makes the first religious broadcast on French radio, beginning a series of talks on Radio Paris entitled L'Évangile par dessus les Toits.
15 January – First live sports broadcast on BBC Radio in the United Kingdom: the rugby union international England v Wales is commented on by Teddy Wakelam.
21 January – A performance in Chicago, Illinois, of Faust is the first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network.
22 January – The BBC transmits the first ever running commentary on an English Football League match: Arsenal v. Sheffield United at Highbury.
16 February – JODK now HLKA, KBS Radio One of Seoul, an official inauguration service start in the Provisional Government of Korea.
23 February – The Federal Radio Commission (later to be replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) is created by Calvin Coolidge.
4 March – First broadcast from the Wileńskie Biuro Radiotechniczne radio station in Vilnius (then in Poland, now in Lithuania).
11 March – Station PCJJ, based at the Philips Laboratories in Eindhoven, makes the first short-wave broadcasts from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies. PCJJ is thought to be the first distinct short-wave service having its own programming rather than simulcasting a domestic broadcaster.
31 March – The Philips company scores a publicity coup when Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands addresses the colonial population via its PCJJ transmitter.
14 April – Radio PTT Nord begins regular transmissions from Lille.
6 May – Türk Telsiz-Telefon Anonym Şirketi ("Turkish Wireless Telephony Ltd") begins radio broadcasting in Istanbul.
1 June – Radio Rennes PTT begins regular transmissions in Brittany.
1 July – 23 Canadian radio stations combine forces to make the country's first nationwide broadcast, covering celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation.
7 July – Christopher Stone presents a record programme on the BBC, becoming the first British disc jockey.
2 August – Under pressure by the Federal Government on the Ku Klux Klan (owners and operators of WTRC in Brooklyn, New York via their Twentieth [District] Republican Club), the station is relocated to Mount Vernon, Virginia, its call letters changed to WTFF, and ownership transferred to The Fellowship Forum, a newspaper published by the Klan. WTRC and WTFF were the origins of the current Washington, D.C., station WFED.
13 August – The Proms are broadcast over radio for the first time.
21 August – The BBC starts high-power medium-wave transmissions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDSD | MDSD could refer to:
Las Américas International Airport ICAO code
Model Driven Software Development, a software engineering term
Most Different Systems Design/Mill's Method of Similarity in comparative politics
Physician (MD) Self Disclosure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk%20MT | Smalltalk MT is an implementation of the Smalltalk programming language created in 1994 by Tarik Kerroum to deal with some of the shortcomings of Smalltalk-80 style of implementations. Smalltalk MT adopts a different approach in that the Smalltalk source is compiled to machine code before being executed.
This allows the developer the freedom of working with compiled code without the need for the traditional compile-link-run cycle. This is like a specialized form of incremental or dynamic compilation.
Smalltalk MT directly interfaces to DLLs in exactly the same manner as C which allows DLL calls to be tested directly in a Workspace, which allows a scripting style of approach to accessing any DLL based code.
For example, one could write in a Workspace the following (single line or multiline, breaking on the '.' character) to reverse the string 'abc':
a := 'abc'. WINAPI _strrev: a. a inspect.
For 64-bit Windows, try:
a:= 'abc'.
WINAPI _wcsrev: a.
a inspect.
The WINAPI call directly calls the DLL function _strrev natively passing parameters from the Smalltalk environment to the C environment and back.
Smalltalk MT has a close integration with COM objects and fully compiled COM components can be created that operate in exactly the same way as C/C++ COM objects.
In 1998 David Anderson teamed up with Tarik Kerroum to advance Smalltalk MT into the high performance and graphics areas.
References
External links
http://www.objectconnect.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070911004843/http://www.genify.com/
Smalltalk programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbricking | Goldbricking (also called cyberloafing or cyberslacking) is the practice of doing less work than one is able to, while maintaining the appearance of working. The term originates from the confidence trick of applying a gold coating to a brick of worthless metal—while the worker may appear industrious on the surface, in reality they are less valuable.
A 1999 report estimated that cyberslacking cost employers in the United States $1 billion a year in computer resources. Additionally, instances of goldbricking increased markedly when broadband Internet connections became commonplace in workplaces. Before that, the slow speed of dial-up connections meant that spending work time browsing on the internet was rarely worthwhile. Thus, many firms employ surveillance software to track employees' Internet activity in an effort to limit liability and improve productivity.
Goldbricking became a mainstream topic when Yahoo! announced in late February 2013 that it was banning remote work because it discovered its remote workers were not logging into the corporate VPN often enough.
Alternative views
Research has indicated that permitting employees to utilize computer resources for personal use actually increases productivity. Moreover, a study by the National University of Singapore entitled Impact of Cyberloafing on Psychological Engagement concluded that using the internet for personal use served the same purpose as a coffee break and helped workers concentrate and stay engaged. Additionally, new research also shows that employees might use cyberloafing to cope with abusive and stressful conditions in the workplace when they perceive that they are being treated unfairly, disrespected, or given unreasonable deadlines.
See also
Counterproductive work behavior
Internet addiction disorder
Interruption science
List of confidence tricks
Sandbagging (disambiguation)
Slacker
Work aversion
References
Employee relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco%20Octart | The Cromemco Octart was an expansion card made by Cromemco for their range of S-100 bus based computer systems. The card provided eight serial bus channels and a single bi-directional parallel port. The serial connections were often used to interface eight computer terminals to the host system. In combination with the Cromemco Cromix multi-user operating system, this allowed different users to concurrently work on the system. The parallel port was typically connected to an IEEE 1284-type printer.
Octart superseded Cromemco's TUART and QUADART and IOP boards. Unlike earlier boards, which merely formatted and exchanged individual data characters, the Octart featured a sophisticated DUART communications circuit plus an independent Z80A processor with 64 KB bytes of memory. This enabled the Octart to:
Perform all protocol and error-detection/recovery functions.
Buffer large amounts of serial data.
Pass only preprocessed data over the host bus using interrupt-driven I/O.
This reduced the processing load on the host computer's central processing unit and dramatically increased system throughput.
The Octart was a versatile serial subsystem. Under program control, it could switch its internal memory configuration from 16 KB bytes of ROM and 32 KB bytes of RAM to a full 64 KB bytes of RAM.
Thus the board can include a ROM bootstrap program which loads an application program, and then switches to 64 KB bytes of RAM for maximum buffer space. The eight serial channels could operate independently of one another in any of four modes: full duplex, auto echo, local loopback, and remote loopback.
Each channel could be programmed to automatic wake-up mode for multidrop applications.
The Octart required Z80 Cromix version 11.24 or later, or 68000 Cromix 20.61 or later.
External links
Cromemco Octart Asynchronous Communications Processor Instruction Manual
Octart
Serial buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlequin%20%28software%29 | Arlequin is a free population genetics software distributed as an integrated GUI data analysis software. It performs several types of tests and calculations, including Fixation index (Fst, also known as the "F-statistics"), computing genetic distance, Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium, linkage disequilibrium, analysis of molecular variance, mismatch distribution, and pairwise difference tests. The software is designed to be able to handle different kinds of molecular, non-molecular, and/or frequency type data.
About
The Arlequin is a software package that integrates basic and advanced levels/methods for population genetics and data analysis.
Version 3.5.2.2 is available only on Microsoft Windows as zip archive and installation executables.
Mac OS X and Linux have only older 3.5.2 version but restricted on 64-bit environments and have only command-line interface as the "arlecore" program, "arlsumstat" program, as well as the example files.
In 2019, the new R functions were integrated into the Arlequin software. The new R functions are able to integrate the software into zip files for Windows, Mac and Linux versions.
References
External links
Official site
About
Free bioinformatics software
Science software for Linux
Science software for macOS
Science software for Windows
Software companies
Population genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th%20Tony%20Awards | The 60th Annual Tony Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on June 11, 2006. The award ceremony was broadcast live on the CBS television network in the United States. The 2006 Tony Awards did not feature a host, but instead over 60 stars presented awards at the ceremony.
The biggest winner of the night was the Royal National Theatre production The History Boys by British playwright Alan Bennett winning six Tonys out of seven nominations, including Best Play, Best Direction, Best Leading Actor and Best Featured Actress.
Natasha Richardson, Phylicia Rashad and Liev Schreiber announced the nominations on May 16, 2006.
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and the League of American Theatres and Producers (now called The Broadway League) at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are for Broadway productions and performances plus several non-competitive Special Awards (such as the Regional Theatre Award).
Eligibility
Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2005–06 season before May 11, 2006 are eligible.
Original plays
After the Night and the Music
Bridge and Tunnel
Festen
The History Boys
Latinologues
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Primo
Rabbit Hole
Shining City
Souvenir
Well
Original musicals
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
Hot Feet
In My Life
Jersey Boys
Lennon
Lestat
Ring of Fire
Tarzan
The Wedding Singer
The Woman in White
Play revivals
Absurd Person Singular
Awake and Sing!
Barefoot in the Park
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
The Constant Wife
Faith Healer
Mark Twain Tonight!
The Odd Couple
Seascape
Three Days of Rain
A Touch of the Poet
Musical revivals
The Pajama Game
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Threepenny Opera
The ceremony
Harry Connick Jr. opened the show singing three popular songs from three Broadway musicals. Connick, (who was heavily medicated to be able to perform, because of a ruptured disc in his spine,), was also a nominee and a performer with the cast of The Pajama Game. All of the sixty presenters and co-hosts joined the stage during the third song. Connick performed "Tonight" (from West Side Story), "Give My Regards to Broadway" (from Little Johnny Jones), and "There's No Business Like Show Business" (from Annie Get Your Gun).
Performances
New Musicals
The Color Purple: Felicia P. Fields, La Chanze and the company performed "Hell No!" and the reprise of the title song.
The Drowsy Chaperone: Sutton Foster and Bob Martin performed "Show Off" with the ensemble.
Jersey Boys: John Lloyd Young performed "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" and was joined by Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer to perform "Who Loves You?".
The Wedding Singer: Stephen Lynch and the company performed "It's Your Wedding Day".
Revivals
The Pajama Game: Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20network | A Boolean network consists of a discrete set of boolean variables each of which has a Boolean function (possibly different for each variable) assigned to it which takes inputs from a subset of those variables and output that determines the state of the variable it is assigned to. This set of functions in effect determines a topology (connectivity) on the set of variables, which then become nodes in a network. Usually, the dynamics of the system is taken as a discrete time series where the state of the entire network at time t+1 is determined by evaluating each variable's function on the state of the network at time t. This may be done synchronously or asynchronously.
Boolean networks have been used in biology to model regulatory networks. Although Boolean networks are a crude simplification of genetic reality where genes are not simple binary switches, there are several cases where they correctly convey the correct pattern of expressed and suppressed genes.
The seemingly mathematical easy (synchronous) model was only fully understood in the mid 2000s.
Classical model
A Boolean network is a particular kind of sequential dynamical system, where time and states are discrete, i.e. both the set of variables and the set of states in the time series each have a bijection onto an integer series.
A random Boolean network (RBN) is one that is randomly selected from the set of all possible boolean networks of a particular size, N. One then can study statistically, how the expected properties of such networks depend on various statistical properties of the ensemble of all possible networks. For example, one may study how the RBN behavior changes as the average connectivity is changed.
The first Boolean networks were proposed by Stuart A. Kauffman in 1969, as random models of genetic regulatory networks but their mathematical understanding only started in the 2000s.
Attractors
Since a Boolean network has only 2N possible states, a trajectory will sooner or later reach a previously visited state, and thus, since the dynamics are deterministic, the trajectory will fall into a steady state or cycle called an attractor (though in the broader field of dynamical systems a cycle is only an attractor if perturbations from it lead back to it). If the attractor has only a single state it is called a point attractor, and if the attractor consists of more than one state it is called a cycle attractor. The set of states that lead to an attractor is called the basin of the attractor. States which occur only at the beginning of trajectories (no trajectories lead to them), are called garden-of-Eden states and the dynamics of the network flow from these states towards attractors. The time it takes to reach an attractor is called transient time.
With growing computer power and increasing understanding of the seemingly simple model, different authors gave different estimates for the mean number and length of the attractors, here a brief summary of key publication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave%20Systems | D-Wave Quantum Systems Inc. is a Canadian quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia. D-Wave was the world's first company to sell computers to exploit quantum effects in their operation. D-Wave's early customers include Lockheed Martin, University of Southern California, Google/NASA and Los Alamos National Lab.
In 2015, D-Wave's 2X Quantum Computer with more than 1,000 qubits was installed at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA Ames Research Center. They have subsequently shipped systems with 2,048 qubits. In 2019, D-Wave announced a 5000-qubit system available mid-2020, using their new Pegasus chip with 15 connections per qubit. D-Wave does not implement a generic quantum computer; instead, their computers implement specialized quantum annealing. However, D-Wave announced plans in 2021 that they will work on universal gate-base quantum computers as well in the future.
History
D-Wave was founded by Haig Farris (former chair of board), Geordie Rose (former CEO/CTO), Bob Wiens (former CFO), and Alexandre Zagoskin (former VP Research and Chief Scientist). Farris taught a business course at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where Rose obtained his PhD, and Zagoskin was a postdoctoral fellow. The company name refers to their first qubit designs, which used d-wave superconductors.
D-Wave operated as an offshoot from UBC, while maintaining ties with the Department of Physics and Astronomy. It funded academic research in quantum computing, thus building a collaborative network of research scientists. The company collaborated with several universities and institutions, including UBC, IPHT Jena, Université de Sherbrooke, University of Toronto, University of Twente, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Erlangen, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These partnerships were listed on D-Wave's website until 2005. In June 2014, D-Wave announced a new quantum applications ecosystem with computational finance firm 1QB Information Technologies (1QBit) and cancer research group DNA-SEQ to focus on solving real-world problems with quantum hardware.
On May 11, 2011, D-Wave Systems announced D-Wave One, described as "the world's first commercially available quantum computer", operating on a 128-qubit chipset using quantum annealing (a general method for finding the global minimum of a function by a process using quantum fluctuations) to solve optimization problems. The D-Wave One was built on early prototypes such as D-Wave's Orion Quantum Computer. The prototype was a 16-qubit quantum annealing processor, demonstrated on February 13, 2007, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. D-Wave demonstrated what they claimed to be a 28-qubit quantum annealing processor on November 12, 2007. The chip was fabricated at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Microdevices Lab in Pasadena, California.
In May 2013, a collaboration between NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) launche |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo%20Mimio | EXPO mimio is a brand name of computer whiteboard capture devices marketed by Sanford Brands. EXPO mimio devices allow users to digitally capture whiteboard images and text.
The devices link physical whiteboard to software created whiteboards such as in netmeeting, and can also be used to control desktop applications and documents directly from a whiteboard when used with a projector and computer.
On October 4, 2006 Newell Rubbermaid acquired the mimio interactive whiteboard (iWB) product line. The mimio line has become part of the Sanford Brands portfolio of products.
Models
In production:
EXPO mimio Interactive
EXPO mimio Xi
EXPO mimio Board
EXPO mimio wireless
EXPO mimio studio (win)
EXPO mimio Mac
EXPO mimio writingRecognition (win)
EXPO mimio screenRecorder (win)
Computer peripherals |
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